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Re: Allergy, not Intolerance
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Eric Schlesinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:08:17 -0500
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According to the Merck Manual:

Food Allergy and Intolerance

Food allergy is reproducible symptoms occurring after ingestion of a
specific food and for which an immunologic basis (IgE antibodies to the
food) is proved. Food intolerance involves clinical GI reactions in
which the mechanism is not immunologic or is not known.

Here's the URL I used (and you may have to cut-and-paste it together)"
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/CVMHighLight?file=/mrkshared/mmanual/section12/chapter148/148b.jsp%3Fregion%3Dmerckcom&word=intolerance&domain=www.merck.com#hl_anchor

Eric
Subscriptions wrote:

> Shouldn't that show up on the IgE/allergy test, then?  So confused!
>
> Jenifer
>

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