Preventing allergies from seafood

Seafood is on the throne because it gives people delicious and nutritious food as well as creates functional foods that support the treatment of some diseases. But seafood is also a food allergy group or can cause poisoning. Therefore, the prevention of allergies and poisoning from seafood is also a concern.

Why does seafood become "specialty" ?

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The scientific research works are consistent in nutritional value as well as prevention and treatment of seafood such as:

- Anti-thrombosis thanks to omega 3 fatty acids produce anti-platelet aggregation.

- Lower triglyceride content in blood, reduce the risk of myocardial infarction.

- Improve endothelial function, increase vasodilation.

- Reduce atherosclerosis .

So the fat that is supplied from seafood, especially marine fish, is considered to be beneficial for heart and brain. It is thought that during the first 3 months of pregnancy, if a woman regularly uses marine fish, the baby is born with a better brain than other children.

On the other hand, gentlemen often admire seafood dishes such as shellfish, snails, mustard fish, cooked fish, baked fish with silver paper, red meat, cereals . as a source of zinc, only need 2-3 oysters also provide enough zinc for the body during the day. According to a study by the Nijmegen University Institute (Netherlands), 108 men with normal fertility and 103 infertility sperms (spermogramme) showed that low sperm density showed infertile people. receiving nutritional supplements containing both folic acid and zinc increased 74% sperm density and slightly increased (4%) of abnormal sperm.

Suffering of allergic location

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The seafood dishes from ocean tuna to sun-dried squid . always enjoyed many people but is a concern of some people with allergy. Seafood is named in the list of 20 allergenic foods, especially for children (accounting for 12.5%). When accidentally ingested, allergy symptoms due to release of histamine in the body often occur as:

- Pruritus, urticaria, runny nose, itchy, red eyes.

- Hypotension caused by capillaries dilated, asthma, shortness of breath due to bronchial air spasms, stimulating gastrointestinal smooth muscle contractions and vomiting.

- Severe allergies can lead to death. That's not including food poisoning such as eating puffer fish or strange sea snail that leads to death.

Allergic marine foods are shrimp, crabs, shellfish, snails, and tuna . some people are allergic to this food without being allergic to other foods. Also pregnant women should limit eating tuna because tuna often contains mercury that is toxic to the fetus.

What to do when allergic?

When eating a strange food and being allergic, it should be noted:

Remove the cause of allergy

This is the first measure to avoid exacerbating allergies. So if a person knows that he or she often has allergies when eating squid, it is best not to eat squid and fried food with squid. The cooking of allergenic foods will limit the allergenic effect.

Use anti-allergy medicine

Eliminating the cause of allergy is the original treatment and also using anti-allergy medication is the treatment of instantaneous resolution of the effect caused by histamine released to the body. Classical antihistamines are less commonly used today because of their low effectiveness and drowsiness. New generation antiallergic drugs are less likely to cause drowsiness, taking one dose can last up to 12-24 hours. They are drugs belonging to Cétirizine, Terfenadine, Loratadine, Tritoqualine, Fexofenadine .

So people who are allergic to a seafood can replace it with other small quantities of seafood to check if their body is allergic to it. If not, it can be used, not necessarily remove all seafood will lose the culinary pleasures in everyday life.