5 Most Common Food Allergies

"If you have any 'chronic symptom', you should be suspicious of delayed food allergies," was how Scott Rollins, MD, started off his weekly health segment on the local morning television news. 

Delayed food allergies can be difficult to detect as it can take 12-72 hours later to have reaction (due to it's being the antibody IgG in the body reacting to the food).  Also, the reactions are not what many people think of as an 'allergy' (such as to strawberries, nuts or peanuts (a legume, technically), which cause the mouth and throat to swell or be irritated and are caused by IgE antibody reacting). 

Symptoms of delayed food allergies are:

• sinus congestion (chronically)
• Gasto-intestinal symptoms: gut swelling, bloating, gas, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• athralgias (joint pain)
• "brain fog" in adults / ADD in children and adults
• fatigue
• weakness

It can be any food, but the 5 most common ones are:

1. wheat
2. corn
3. soy
4. dairy
5. egg

Why did this happen?  it's only been 5-10,000 years that we've had agricultural societies in the world and many of us are not genetically prepared for eating the 'typical foods' in our cultures now.  Our ancestors did not eat these types of foods, so some people do okay but others don't. 

The 11 News reporter, ____ ____, asked a great question: What about organics?  The answer is that for food allergies, it does not matter as it is the actual food product that causes the allergy, although

Testing is currently done by the IMC in three ways: 

test for 159 different foods is available

test for the most likely ones (less expensive)

food elimination (completely exclude suspected food for a few weeks and see how symptoms change, but Dr. Rollins points out it can be something different than what you have removed so this can be a difficult process.

My experience has been that in 1995 I was found to be allergic to dairy, wheat, eggs and the world DOES still spin if you don't have these items (many people think I don't 'like' cheese or milk and it would be impossible for them to give up their beloved cheese or other dairy item without realizing I enjoyed those products immensely and after years of 'eating away from them', I now can rotate them back into my diet. 

In the conversation I was lucky enough to have individually with Dr. Rollins last night, he explained how beans (as in kidney, pintos, etc.) have an effect on the gut that causes problems such as above for many people, and he recalled my testing with him netted those as a food I was sensitive to.  In my years of reducing wheat and dairy, I would eat a lot of Mexican food (corn and beans sans the cheese), and possibly created the same problem by eating so many beans thinking they were a great alternative staple in my diet which i wasn't previously allergic to.  "The testing and knowledge about this has just burgeoned since you had that first testing done" he said to me. 

Related VIDEO seminar here at Lumigrate by Christopher Lepisto, ND on this type of food allergy is at our Videos tab, the link to which is www.lumigrate.com/catalog/seminars

Link to follow Dr Rollins and his clinic/information, etc.  www.imcwc/com

Website for the Grand Junction news channel which aired this story: www.nbc11news.com