The symptomatic process begins with the action of food materials in the digestive tract and continues into the blood stream, and then affects the function of target organs which receive the food problem. For example:

• Symptoms may be limited to the digestive tract-indigestion, abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
• Symptoms may be general or systemic - fever, fatigue, sweating, and chills.
• The lungs are the target organ in food-induced bronchitis and asthma.
• The joints are target organs in food allergic arthritis.
• Muscles and connective tissue react with pain, stiffness, and swelling.
• Weakness and reduced exertional tolerance are associated with pain.
• The skin reacts with itching, rashes, hives, thickening, redness, swelling, and scaling as in eczema and psoriasis.
• The brain is the target organ when disorganized, disturbed thinking, feeling, remembering, and behaving occur.

Patterns of Illness

Food allergy is a whole-body disease and a lottery selection of disturbances may evolve over many years. In many older children and adults we can trace the illness pattern back to infancy with slow, intermittent emergence of symptoms over several years. There may be intermissions of relatively good health lasting months to years. In other patients the illness begins abruptly and progresses rapidly without prior symptoms.

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