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The rate of false positives of both skin and blood test for food allergies can be as high as 50 to 60%.

Blood and skin test only shows sensitization to a particular allergen; they never confirm an allergy

There’s zero evidence that IgGs triggers, any negative effects for the body

Allergist get around two weeks of training. There is no energization for the commercial preparations of allergens for skin test. There’s no standardize or universally accepted system for interpreting skin test or for recording and collecting results.

Allergy - if your body responds to an exposure to an antigen or allergen typically with an IgE response

Intolerance - symptoms similar to a food allergy, but being caused by some body system, condition, or mechanism other than the immune system system itself

Sensitivity - if you develop a localized wheel reaction to a skin prick test, but don’t experience allergic symptoms when exposed to that allergen

Allergy refers to a common underlying immune mechanism. It’s just that each response can target a different Organ.

Allergic response is a systemic disease. Inflammation is the core problem of all allergic disorders.

Allergy is a syndrome or group of symptoms that commonly occur together, and have the same underlying cause. From this vantage point, asthma, eczema, and food allergy are not separate problems.

Our bodies produced five different types of antibodies IgM, IgD, IgG, IgA, and IgE

A genetic predisposition to IgE sensitization to allergens in the environment is called atopy. Atopy is different from allergy because while you can have an allergy without an IgE response, you cannot have an atopic reaction without IgE.

They discussed the history of discovering allergies and described the biological mechanisms underlying them. These weren't difficult to understand as it's the same as what they teach you in A level biology. However, it was really interesting to me to see how fluid the definition of allergies were, and how misconceived they are by even top allergists. Also, the reality of how recent this research was freaked me out.