Editor’s Note: In Healio Allergy/Asthma’s column, “Food Allergy: Fact vs. Fiction,” Douglas H. Jones, MD, breaks down what’s true and what’s myth for a variety of topics related to food allergies. If you have a question that you would like answered in this column, email Jones at rmaaimd@gmail.com or Richard Gawel at rgawel@healio.com.
For most of my career, the basic teaching around IgE-mediated food allergy has been fairly straightforward: a patient eats a food, symptoms develop within minutes, and we work backward to identify the trigger.
Alpha-gal syndrome does not behave that way.
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