Allergy is a problem with your body’s immune system. In short, your body starts to treat a substance as if it is harmful when it normally isn’t. In most cases, the allergen will be a protein of some sort. If you are allergic, your body will treat the ...

The most severe allergic reaction is anaphylaxis. With anaphylaxis, the whole body is rapidly involved and this is what makes it so deadly. While an anaphylactic reaction may start as a sudden itching of the eyes or face, it then progresses very rapidly to other bodily systems. ...

The term allergy is tossed around a lot these days. However, it’s important to understand that not every reaction to a food or substance is an allergy. To have an allergy, you must have an abnormal immune system reaction to a generally harmless substance. The body tries ...

Allergies are on the rise. While you might think that it’s just because we’re more aware of allergies now, you’d be wrong.  Current research indicates that certain industrialized countries including the US, England, Canada, Greenland, New Zealand, Australia, and Denmark have higher rates of allergy than in ...