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With spring just around the corner, many people are gearing up for what is not so fondly known as allergy season. Allergies affect nearly half of the US population. A variety of treatments exist, such as over-the-counter antihistamines, prescription medications, herbal and natural treatments, and receiving frequent shots from your doctor
in hopes of building up immunity to suspected allergens. What many people don't know is that what they eat on a normal basis may play a major role in their allergy symptoms. While food allergies are commonly associated with symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, even anaphylaxis, symptoms can also include sneezing, watery, itchy eyes, and runny nose. One of the most common food allergies is to cow's milk. A cow's milk allergy differs from lactose intolerance, in which the body lacks the enzyme to break down the milk sugar lactose. Cow's milk allergy is actually an immune mediated response to the various proteins found in cow's milk. The body produces an immune response to the proteins in dairy, which
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causes the release of histamine, leading to symptoms commonly known as "allergies". It also leads to the production of mucus, which can cause stuffy nose, difficulty swallowing, and difficulty breathing. Eliminating dairy completely from one's diet is seemingly impossible. For many, this change would definitely be worth not taking daily medications and not constantly itching their eyes and nose.
If this isn't reason enough, here are a few other facts to consider. Milk also commonly contains many pesticides, hormones, and chemicals, and is also allowed to contain trace amounts of feces, blood, and pus. Gross! Humans are the only species that continue to drink milk in adulthood, and that drinks the milk of another species. Calcium is needed to protect against osteoporosis, and many think that because milk is a good source of calcium that it helps prevent osteoporosis. This, however, has been scientifically proven to be false. Milk is high in protein, which leads to the release of calcium from bones in order to neutralize
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the acidic environment created by milk. So, while all of this information is very foreign to most people, it does make you think about just how much what you eat affects your body.
Giving up dairy isn't for everyone, and it takes a life-long commitment which may be difficult to follow. Giving up dairy may not alleviate everyone's allergy symptoms either, but many people do benefit from a dairy-free diet. Once again, many other alternatives do exist to help alleviate the symptoms of seasonal allergies if giving up milk is just too crazy to consider!
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