At 14:29 2001-04-16 -0400, Rachel wrote:

>I agree completely.  I've heard people say, "I tested allergic to.... bla,
>bla, bla, but I was not allergic to sugar."

You can not be allergic to sugar itself. Allergy is per definition only
against proteins. So the test could be done for a protein that goes
together with the sugar. There is something else, hypersensitivity,
that we can have to different things, but that is a very different
from allergy.

- Hans