• Book Name: Food Allergy-Facts and Principles
• Authors Name: Dr.S. Parameshwari

Allergy is one of the medical distress due to food is a concern for mankind nowadays. An allergic reaction is really an immune reaction. It is reaction against foreign intrusion by the body’s defensive mechanisms, the antibodies. The body manufactures different groups of antibodies, or Immunoglobulins as they are called, and the one we are concerned with, in allergy is Immunoglobulin-E (IgE).