[Sca-cooks] Food Allergies

[Terry Decker]

I'm foggy tonight.  I typed in allergen where I should have said histamine.

I do find it humorous that you are characterizing a blistering agent like
capsaicin as a "harmless chemical compound."  While it shouldn't cause a
histamine reaction, it's not exactly neutral to the human body.  I sometimes
think humans only toss back the peppers because of the endorphin produced.
Oh, that hurts so good.

Bear

>Sort of. Type IV delayed hypersensitivty is mediated by histamine.It's not
>an "inappropriate" response, because your body SHOULD release histamine
when
>presented with the immunological trigger. The "inappropriate" step is the
>generation of the trigger (an IgE antibody) to an otherwise harmless
>chemical compound.
>
>Avraham