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If you have food allergies, you know the drill: Eat so much as one crumb of the offending fare, and it can feel like your immune system is preparing for the apocalypse. Cue symptoms like hives, your ...

If your immune system overreacts to pollen or other allergens, a diet rich in compounds that boost immune health and reduce ...

The body's mast cells are mainly associated with allergic reaction in the way they release histamine and other inflammatory substances. However, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now ...

Food allergies affect more than half a billion people worldwide. In severe cases, even a small bite of the wrong food can trigger anaphylaxis - a rapid, body-wide allergic reaction that can cause ...

Mast cells are tissue-resident immune cells that release histamine during allergic response. Mast Cell Activation Syndrome is a condition that very few people know about, sadly even most primary care ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. A year before the pandemic, I was diagnosed with a condition called mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). A hallmark of the syndrome is hypersensitivities ...