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Food hypersensitivity
There are many reasons why individual foodstuffs may cause complaints. In general, all these reactions are called food hypersensitivities.
In more detail, a distinction is made between reactions that are mediated through the immune system (food allergies) and reactions that are not mediated through the immune system (food poisoning, pseudo-allergies and metabolic diseases), e.g. fish poisoning, histamine intolerance, milk sugar intolerance.
Food hypersensitivities often cause the following complaints:
- gastrointestinal problems: stomach-ache, winds, sick feeling / vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, irritable bowel / irritable stomach, Crohn’s disease
- skin problems: itching of the skin, skin rashes, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis
- problems of concentration: tiredness, depression, ADHD, ADD
- migraine / headache
- rheumatic diseases
- ailments of the respiratory tract: asthma, dry nose, chronic rhinitis
- menstrual pain
- cardiovascular complaints
- overweight
There are different possible causes of these complaints. The most important ones are:
Since the different causes often result in the same or in similar complaints, it is difficult in most cases to find out which cause is actually present..
We recommend you carry out a free online check on this portal in order to have an initial indication with respect to the cause probable in your case and which test your physician or therapist should start the search for causes with. You will immediately receive an evaluation and further information material and contact details of physicians or therapists located near your place of domicile or place of work who are specialised in food intolerances are available on request.
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