Allergy VS Intolerance - What is the difference?

It’s vital to distinguish between having an allergy to something you eat and your body being intolerant of it.

If you’re allergic to a particular type of food, you’ll soon know about it – usually within an hour. From swollen lips or throat and skin rashes to vomiting and diarrhoea, an adverse reaction to food is all too painfully apparent.

Fortunately, such allergies affect only a small percentage of the population. Food intolerance, however, is another story entirely.

It is estimated that up to 45 per cent of the population will suffer from food intolerance at some point in their lives.

The symptoms of the condition are difficult to detect as they may not come on immediately after eating. It could be hours, or indeed days, before you suffer the effects. Essentially, what you ate on Saturday could be the cause of the pain you go through on Tuesday.

It is this delayed reaction affect that makes detection of the condition extremely difficult without expert laboratory testing.

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