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An allergy is an immune system response, generally involving release of histamines. Lactose intolerance doesn't have to do with the immune system, but rather the lack of lactase in the digestive system, which is the enzyme necessary to break down the lactose milk sugar into glucose that can be digested. Consequently it passes further into the digestive system, "ferments" with the bacteria and makes gas.
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Reaction.
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Both are the same basic meaning.
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Food allergies is the adverse reaction of the body on certain food taken causing an almost immediate response.Food intolerance is usually not life threatening but it will give you discomfort and make you unwell.Food intolerance happens when certain food taken are not digested well. The reason for incomplete digestion is due to a lack of certain digestive enzymes required to digest that particular food. Source http://www.gored.eu
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As a medical scientist putting it in easy to understand terms - food allergies are direct antibody reactions (Immunoglobulins - often IgE) to a substance and food intolerance is an inability to break down food that is normally metabolized properly (often due to a missing enzyme)! :)
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