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But a more serious allergy happened to Asta’s 14-year-old son. “I came back from the ambulance because a 14-year-old boy, not allergic, ate a vegan protein bar and started choking, even though the same company ate a bar during the day at school and nothing happened,” he said the woman. He says.
She says she tried to compare the day and night bar packages, but didn’t notice any significant difference.
Body reactions are not always allergies
However, Kotryna Linauskienė, an allergist at the Santara Clinics of Vilnius University Hospital, says that we often call itching, rash or other body reaction or symptoms allergies, which is certainly not always a correct diagnosis. Confirmation of allergies, says the doctor, is possible only after tests.
In case of unclear and alarming reactions, the allergist recommends consulting an allergist and a clinical immunologist to assess the situation individually and carry out the necessary tests.
“In the mother’s case, a food allergy is suspected, but we cannot answer the exact culprit by evaluating the data provided. The situation must be evaluated in detail and this requires the consultation of a doctor. However, food allergies can occur in both children and adults, ”says K. Linauskienė.
According to her, the main food allergens for children are milk, chicken eggs, fish, walnuts, crustaceans and soybeans. The most common food allergens in adults are fish, nuts, and shellfish. However, in adults, the anaphylactic reaction is often caused by other factors.
“The most common cause of an anaphylactic reaction is the use of drugs or stinging insects (bees or wasps). Thus, what happened to the mother until the culprit has been proven and the entire previous situation has been carefully evaluated, we can call acute urticaria, the cause of which in adults is not usually related to food allergies ”, explained K. Linauskienė.
Allergies can only be confirmed by tests
Allergic reactions, says the allergist, are characterized by reproducibility. For example, if you are allergic to peanuts, the reaction will occur every time you eat them.
“In the case of a 14-year-old boy, if he ate the same bars on the same day and reacts over and over again, no, it is questionable if it is an allergy,” explained the doctor.
K. Linauskienė says that if an allergy is suspected, a consultation with a medical specialist would be required, during which the necessary tests would be performed and recommendations would be provided on how to avoid the identified allergens.
“The consultation first assesses the patient’s complaints, past reactions. Testing generally begins with skin puncture samples. If they are negative, blood tests are done. If these tests are not sufficient to prove or rule out allergies, provocative signs are possible.
A provocative sample of food that is suspected of causing a reaction is the most important test to diagnose a food allergy, so for example, if a child undergoes skin prick tests with several possible suspected food allergens, eat the same one. sweep in portions measured over time in a medical facility and under the supervision of clinical immunologists, ”the doctor said of the studies.
The patient’s history alone, he adds, is often not enough. “You can only confirm that you are allergic by research. From skin prick samples, blood tests down to the molecular level and, if necessary, provocative consumption samples at the treatment facility.”
Allergies can occur regardless of age.
The doctor says that allergies can still occur at any age, leading to changes in the immune system.
“For example, with inhalable allergens. We come into contact with pollen every year during the flowering of plants, with house dust mites at home, every day. We are in contact for many seasons, but when changes in the immune system occur, we begin to react in a distorted way, too strongly to pollen with the typical symptoms of allergic rhinitis: sneezing, itchy eyes and nose, watery eyes, nasal congestion and discharge. transparent nose ”, says K. Linauskienė.
Allergies, the doctor says, can go away, and even a positive test doesn’t necessarily mean you experience allergy symptoms; sometimes a sensitized person may have no symptoms and be tolerant of the allergen.
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