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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I'm not disputing the fact that people die from anaphylactic shock from things that they have eaten. My point is that they are not true allergies that cause the anaphylactic shock--they are food sensitivities.
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No. No, they are
not "sensitivities" (unless you define sensitivity so broadly that it encompasses any adverse reaction.) They are food
allergies. Food intolerances do exist but so, most definitely, do food allergies.
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I've known, of course, that people can have anaphylactic shock from true allergies (when I was getting "allergy shots," I used to carry an EpiPen on me everywhere I went, 24/7, 365 days a year), but I didn't realize that the reaction from a person eating a food that they shouldn't is the same kind of reaction.
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"True allergies"? Like what, hay fever? An allergy to cats? And yes, a person suffering a severe allergic reaction to a food does require an EpiPen or similar auto-injector - and then a quick trip to an emergency department.
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
(Sources of the preceding facts: my allergist-s, and reading material laying around their waiting rooms).
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A little bit of introductory information:
https://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and...od-intolerance
https://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/...d-intolerance/
https://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/new...y-sensitivity/