What are "food allergies"?

What are "food allergies"?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: How are insect allergies treated?; What are "food allergies"?; What are "hives"? and more...

Food allergies are reasonably common in early childhood. Certain infants can't tolerate certain foods; they develop rashes, or diarrhoea, they cough, or they wheeze. Among the common foods that infants have trouble with are milk, egg protein, juice, oranges, peanuts, and less commonly, the other foods. Many of the children outgrow their food allergy by the time they get to be three, four, or five years of age, or thereabouts, but some of them persist through the child's lifetime.