Dear Healthy Friend,

Can you just imagine the things your skin would say if it could talk... "Hey, you're burning me, time to get some shade" or how about "Hey, you're starving me, give me some moisture"? I'd almost stake my life that the last thing you expect it to say would be: "Stop eating that, you're allergic!"...

Well, that could be exactly what your skin is saying... Are you listening to it? Or rather, are you looking at it?

In the name of good health,

Taryn Strugnell
Managing Editor of Nutrition & Healing

P.S. My team and I are currently putting the final touches on our incredible Health Portal (I'll be telling you more about this over the course of the week)...

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The tales your skin tells...
Christine O'Brien
Contributor, Nutrition & Healing

It's been kind of a rough month. I've spent the past few weeks completely re-learning my relationship with food, after finding that the puzzling and seemingly unrelated range of health problems I've been experiencing could actually be connected.

The link? Gluten intolerance.

The experience of eliminating gluten from my diet has been frustrating, to say the least. And, as I've started learning more about the way gluten affects my body, I've come to realise just how staggering the number of people who suffer from food allergies, sensitivities and intolerances is.

So it's no surprise that a report from the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology caught my eye. The report deals with atopic dermatitis, which is a common form of eczema.

On its own, atopic dermatitis is a chronic disease characterised by red, itchy, cracked skin. But it also could be one way the body says, "Hey, you could be in for something else, too!"

The report deals primarily with infants and children, telling parents that if a child has atopic dermatitis, the parents should be on the lookout for future food allergies.

Recently, a five-year study concluded that even mild cases of dermatitis in children aged three to 18 months could signal a future food allergy. Basically, people with atopic dermatitis make more IgE antibodies - those antibodies that are made when foreign proteins come into contact with the body. These are the antibodies that signal allergic sensitivity to a given food.

The link between atopic dermatitis and food allergies has prompted the guideline that children who are younger than five and have persistent moderate to severe atopic dermatitis should be considered for food allergies.

There are tests for food allergies, but the mere presence of the antibodies doesn't necessarily mean there is an allergy present. The only sure way to know is the old fashioned way - observation of reactions to a specific food.

This news comes at the same time as some other pretty interesting work in the area of food allergies. Researchers are looking into whether withholding foods from young children, as opposed to offering kids an unrestricted diet, could cause allergies. They point to peanut allergies as an example. In the US, children don't usually eat peanuts until they're toddlers, which is when most peanut allergies rear their heads. In Israel, on the other hand, peanut proteins are used in pacifiers and peanut allergies are rare.

The results on that question are a while off, but in the meantime it's certainly helpful to have some information on how to identify a greater risk for uncomfortable (and often dangerous) allergic reactions.

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