What foods are good to eat if you have allergies?

There is no unified "friendly food list" for people with allergies. The safest choice is to first identify your own allergens and give priority to eating fresh, natural ingredients that have been tested and confirmed to not cause allergic reactions and have simple processing procedures.

Several moms with allergies around me, as well as friends with allergies themselves, have all stepped into the pitfalls of "anti-allergy Internet celebrity foods" before. A while ago, a friend who suffers from seasonal urticaria saw a blogger saying that broccoli and kiwi fruit are rich in vitamin C and vitamin C. Flavonoids can help reduce allergic reactions. After taking it for a week, she got itchy wheals all over her body and couldn't sleep. When she went to the hospital for a review, she found out that she was allergic to a certain protease in kiwi fruit. She couldn't take vitamin C supplements, so she was sent to the hospital first.

Don’t think this is an exception. Foods that many people now say are “recommended for people with allergies,” such as probiotic-rich sugar-free yogurt, omega-3-rich deep-sea fish, and various antioxidant berries, are essentially foods with generally low allergenicity rates and whose nutrients are helpful in maintaining immune homeostasis. However, this does not mean that it is useful for everyone, nor does it mean that no one is allergic to these foods. Take the role of probiotics in regulating allergies, for example. The academic community has yet to reach a consensus on whether specific strains of bacteria can improve allergic reactions. Some people have persisted in drinking yogurt without added ingredients for half a year, and the number of allergic rhinitis attacks during the seasons has indeed decreased. Others have taken probiotic supplements for several months, but the allergies are still the same. There are huge individual differences.

You really need to choose the right food for yourself. If you always don’t know what you eat that triggers allergies, you can first do a standardized food IgE (immediate allergy) and IgG (delayed allergy) screening, and first mark the minefields that you must not touch. After all, some people are allergic to mangoes and others are allergic to wheat. What others think of home-cooked delicacies may be "causing" to you. "Allergens", after avoiding the minefield, give priority to local seasonal ingredients that are commonly eaten by everyone on a daily basis. The risk of allergy is much lower than imported and rare exotic ingredients. If you encounter something you have never eaten before and want to try it, eat a fingernail size first, and observe that there are no abnormal reactions such as rash, cough, or diarrhea for 24 to 48 hours before eating normally. It is much safer.

By the way, don’t blindly believe in any folk health products that claim to “cure allergies”. I’ve seen people take so-called “anti-allergic enzymes” before, and their allergies didn’t get better. Instead, they got contact dermatitis. The gain outweighed the loss.