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 Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Peanut Allergy (And Possibly More) Peanut is a potent food allergen that’s famously cross-reactive with tree nuts and less famously with other legumes like lupin. Happily, for some, there is something approaching a cure. |  Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Shellfish Allergy (Except How to Cure It) Shellfish is a major food allergen that affects certain demographics more than others, including people who’ve never eaten it before. If you’re allergic to one type of shellfish, however, you can probably still eat another. |  Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know about Wheat Allergy Wheat allergy takes many forms and provokes a range of reactions that can be immediate or delayed. Getting a diagnosis can be difficult and trying to avoid it, even more difficult, but there are solutions available to some. |
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 Anaphylactic Attacks: What They Are and How to Handle Them An anaphylactic attack can be a scary event, but it’s very (very) rarely fatal, especially if you know how to handle it. |  The Milk Ladder; What It Is and How to Use It The milk ladder was created to help children with mild forms of milk allergy to reintroduce milk into their diets. It comes with small risks and big potential rewards. |  Lost in Intentions: Making Sense of Food Labels Food labels can be more of a hindrance than a help to the food-allergic. Find out which mistakes to avoid and what to look out for. |
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 Anaphylaxis Is Probably Not As Lethal As You Think It Is Anaphylaxis is not necessarily as hazardous as you think it is, although certain groups of people have a greater risk of experiencing severe reactions than others. |  Adult-Onset Food Allergy; Definitely a Thing Not only can adults develop new allergies to food, they’re a lot more likely than children to get certain kinds of allergies, and those allergies are difficult to shake. |  Pollen Food Syndrome; Mostly Harmless, But Not Always Pollen food syndrome is a potentially dangerous allergy that is often misnamed and widely misunderstood. Find out if you could be one of the 1 in 10 people at risk of a serious reaction, and what you can do about it. |
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 Cofactors for Allergic Reactions; What Are They and What, if Anything, Can You Do About Them? Cofactors are things that are intrinsic about you or your situation that can worsen your allergic reactions. Knowing what they are could enable you to avoid some sticky situations. |  How Exercise Can Worsen Your Allergic Reactions to Food and What You Can Do About It From ironing to isometric training, physical activity can be a real problem for people with food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis. Luckily, there are several ways to deal with this. |  Proteins, How They Interact With the Immune System and How They Are Affected by Food ProcessingThis page describes how proteins interact with IgE antibodies to cause allergic reactions and how various forms of food processing can affect these reactions. |