Dawn wrote:
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> ......  If continued exposure continues through this "resting"
> stage of outward symptoms, the allergy often becomes life
> threatening...causing an anaphylaxis type reaction some time in the future.

In my experience, allergy does not "often" proceed to anaphylaxis
(fortunately). I would say sometimes, or be careful because it might.

For more and better explanations of that "resting" period, read Theron
Randolph (Food Allergy, 1943) who calls it "masking" or Hans Selye (The
Stress of Life) who calls it the peiod of adaptation.

Like if you are driving past my lovely hometown of Barstow on the way to
Las Vegas in the summertime past the world's tallest thermometer at
Baker that is most likely registering around 120 degrees, you will soon
come to the Baker grade. If your car is on cruise control at ,let's say,
85 mph, and the air conditioning is blasting away, your car will kick
into higher RPM's and the engine will get hotter---just so you can
maintain 85. Your car can handle this adaptation, sometimes even to the
top of the grade. But if the grade went on for ever (or if you keep
consuming milk) your engine will reach a point which Selye calls the
"period of exhaustion." Bad things will happen.

Daniel A. Twogood, D.C.
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