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You’ve just had a delicious chocolate nut brownie and now you appear to be having a severe asthma attack. Come to find out the nuts included peanuts, to which you are highly allergic. If this scenario sounds familiar you are likely to be one in a small group of people who suffer from a true food allergy.
A food allergy is when your immune system mistakenly identifies a food component, usually a protein, as a foreign substance that must be attacked. The body defends itself with anti-bodies that trigger the release …
