Are Your Food Allergies Real?

Food allergies are serious business — just ask 18-year-old Dane of Charlotte, North Carolina. With milk, eggs, peanuts, shellfish, chicken, potatoes, and garlic, and many other foods, on his do-not-eat list, he suffers from true, life-threatening food allergies.

To avoid a trip to the emergency room, everything Dane eats must be made from scratch: “I don’t eat in restaurants or from vending machines,” he says, “[and] I try not to be around a lot of food, which makes it a little isolating because so much of our culture and socialization revolves around food.”

But there are many allergy sufferers who practice the same devout food avoidance as Dane but don’t really have to, according to a paper published Wednesday in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association.

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