8 Most Common Food Allergies (+ Symptoms & Substitutes) By IVANA MILOJEVIC According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), over 50 million Americans experience different types of allergies every year.Allergies happen when your immune system overreacts to a specific protein by producing chemicals such as histamine, which cause inflammation. Even though food allergies are usually diagnosed during childhood, some still appear during adolescence and adulthood. Most food allergies are not harmful. But for some people, exposure to a small amount of food can trigger symptoms that vary in severity anywhere from a few minutes to hours after exposure....

Is food allergy something that we are born with or can adults develop it too?​ By IVANA MILOJEVIC While most food allergies start during childhood, they can develop at any time of life as well. Nobody is sure why, but some adults can develop an allergy to a food they used to eat before with no problem whatsoever. Sometimes a child even outgrows a food allergy only to have it reappear in adulthood. Even today the modern science cannot explain this. Fish, peanuts, shellfish (shrimp or lobster) and tree nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds and cashews) are the most common foods...