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Dangerous Bites

A Food Allergy Primer

By Teri Brown

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Ear infections, speech delays, skin problems, behavioral issues. While these don't seem like common food allergies symptoms, for many children across the country they are indicators of some very real food issues.

Leah Skelly, a mother of two from Beaverton, Ore., was clueless when her youngest child first started showing food allergy symptoms. "He had a lot of ear infections," says Skelly. "He wasn't making eye contact with people like he should and seemed to be in his own little world. He also wasn't developing speech normally. I was scared to death at this point that he would be diagnosed autistic."

Skelly began doing some research online and came across many references to a gluten-free diet. Further research made her believe her child was indeed suffering from food allergies. Soon he was diagnosed to be allergic not only to gluten, but also to dairy foods.

Making the changes necessary isn't always easy, especially when your child's trigger is a food as common in diets as wheat, but parents across the country are finding the changes are worth it.

A Common Problem
Dr. Ellen Cutler, author of The Food Allergy Cure (Three Rivers Press, 2003), is convinced food allergies are far more common than people think. "My clinical experience with children's allergies over the last two decades has convinced me that food allergens are the key to most health problems we see in children today," Dr. Cutler says. "Food allergies are clearly at the root of many other allergies and many other conditions."

Dr. Cutler defines allergies as an abnormal hypersensitivity to something that should normally not give any reaction. She says defined this way, allergies are a broader term implicating many people and have become a worldwide condition.


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