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[quote=Anonymous]I think lots of children with allergies in developing countries die young.

I might have fallen into this category. I grew up in a developing country. I was very ill as a child, and I was always covered in rashes as a baby. My parents took me to all kinds of doctors, and they could not figure out why. As I grew older the rashes disappeared and neorological symptoms gradually appeared. 
It's all gone now with the avoidance of dairy and wheat. While my allergy tests turn up negative for these two( I was never tested until I was in my twenties), if I start consuming these two, all my symptoms return.

My daughters are allergic to wheat(one of them), dairy(both of them) and much more. We have done both blood and skin prick tests, and they all come back positive for the various allergies. My first suffered a lot as a baby; she had all kinds of rash; she would wake up at night screaming; her bum was usually red. But once we figured out what she was allergic to, all her symptoms disappeared.  We learned a lesson with my younger one, and as soon as she started getting a rash, we tested for a food allergy.

I believe that I would have tested positive for allergies to wheat and dairy as a child. My children are allergic to these and their sympstoms include hives and trouble breathing.However, since I never got tested, I kept eating these things, and my immune system reacted in other ways. So now, I am not allergic to wheat and dairy, but I develop neorological symptoms from eating them (seizures,  tingling underneath skin ).

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