Abstract

FOOD ALLERGY AND OUR GENES

Debosree Ghosh*

Abstract

Allergy is a pathological condition which can hit anybody any time. What it means is that if a person is not allergic to a particular stuff till date from his birth, it does not assure that he won’t be allergic to it throughout his lifetime. Allergy can be spoken of as an immune response to certain things. Those things which trigger allergic response in an individual are termed as allergens. As a matter of fact, a person who has allergy is in general allergic to more than one thing. The responses do vary from person to person for same substances. A person may be absolutely normal to something while another man may be highly sensitive to that same stuff. That substance can be food and in that case the sensitive condition is termed as ‘food allergy’. Allergy, as light the word sounds may not be always that casual and easy to deal with. Allergic hypersensitivity can culminate to fatal consequences and may even lead to death. In this piece of review we have tried to get a glimpse of the old and new food allergens and their little details in a nutshell.

Keywords: Allergy, allergens, food allergy, hypersensitivity, immune response.