According to Food Allergy Research and Education, over 19 million adults and children in America have food-induced allergies. Silver Spring food allergies are negative reactions by your immune system when you consume certain diets or types of food. If you have food allergies, some symptoms you are likely to show include inflamed airways and digestive issues.

An allergic response to eating some foods can trigger serious symptoms that can harm your life. For example, you can experience anaphylaxis. The anaphylactic response can develop within a short period of exposing your body to diets that induce allergies.

If you have this unusual reaction of your body’s immune system, you can get symptoms like hypotension (reduced blood pressure) and vomiting. Here are the common foods that can trigger your body’s allergic reaction.

• Crustacean shellfish

That involves a group of human-eaten seafood. These include shrimp, oysters, crabs, and lobsters. Shellfish have significant reserves of healthy fats and proteins, hence, can help you maintain or attain a healthy weight.

Additionally, consuming crustacean shellfish provides your body with abundant nutrients, particularly zinc and healthy fats (omega-3 fatty acids). These essential nutrients help promote the right development of the brain, the body’s defense against illnesses, and other organs.

But safe-to-eat shellfish have a protein that can mislead your body to respond abnormally. Eating other fin fish like cod, snapper, and salmon can also trigger your allergy.

• Peanuts

Eating peanuts provides an array of essential nutrients, like group B vitamins and vitamin E, which your body requires for proper function. For instance, vitamin E is an antioxidant that fights against free radicals produced by body processes. Free radicals in the body can gradually cause damage.

Peanuts also contain minerals like manganese, copper, iron, and zinc. For example, zinc helps promote the working of more than 100 enzymes in the body.

The allergic reaction can occur whether you eat peanut butter with bread or eat products containing peanuts. Common products usually containing peanuts are baked goods, cereals, bread, and energy bars. Other products may also contain peanut oil.

• Chicken eggs

Humans began domesticating chickens more than 9,000 years ago, especially in Southeastern Asia and Oceania. Humans started domesticating chickens for their meat and eggs.

Chicken eggs are good sources of vital protein that your body requires. They also have unsaturated fats that are safe for your heart and enrich your body with vitamins, like vitamin D.

A type of protein in chicken or duck eggs can trigger allergic reactions in your body after eating them. Allergic reactions can result from eating the egg’s yolk or white part.

• Wheat

As a common grain, wheat is an ingredient in various foods you can eat regularly, like biscuits, pizza, pancakes, and breakfast cereals. The ingredient is also in some popular beverages.

A specific protein in wheat, known as gluten, can trigger an abnormal reaction in your immune system.

Some dairy products, soybeans, and tree nuts can also activate the natural defense system of your body to react abnormally. 

Contact the Allergy & Asthma Clinic of Maryland today to book an appointment with a medical specialist that can provide food allergy remedies.