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what is physical allergy

by Guest6075 | 12 years, 7 month(s) ago

My 27 year old daughter has been a non-meat, non-vegetable, non-fruit eater since the age of 2. She retches at the sight of certain foods that she has never even tasted. My question is what physical allergy is?

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The immune system is designed to protect the body from harmful invaders such as germs. Occasionally, it goes awry and attacks harmless or mildly noxious agents, doing more harm than good. This event is termed allergy if the target is from the outside—like pollen or bee venom—and autoimmunity if it is caused by one of the body's own components.
The immune system usually responds only to certain kinds of chemicals, namely proteins. However, non-proteins can trigger the same sort of response, probably by altering a protein to make it look like a target. Physical allergy refers to reactions in which a protein is not the initial inciting agent.
Sometimes it takes a combination of elements to produce an allergic reaction. A classic example is drugs that are capable of sensitizing the skin to sunlight. The result is phototoxicity, which appears as an increased sensitivity to sunlight or as localized skin rashes on sunexposed areas.
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