Allergies
Some comments about “allergies” and gout.
First. Allergy or allergic reaction are not medicalterms, they are layman’s terms. The proper medicalterm would be ‘hypersensitivity reaction’.
Second. Such reactions are always along a spectrum ofseverity. Some people react to a bee sting with littlealarm or physical reaction, some have a lifethreatening reaction. Anything beyond the systemicreaction that is average for the species wouldprobably be considered ‘hypersensitivity’. If theimmune system detects a threat, but does little morethan yawn, that would be ‘cellular anergy’. Manyvaccines do not cause any effect at all and have to belinked to haptens to create the body’s ‘reaction’ tothe stimulus.
Third. When it comes to food it is perhaps a good timeto remember the less-than-popular theory about goutand fungal metabolites. It is here that one can recallthat one researcher’s focus is on fungal metabolitessimply on the empirical evidence that all ‘anti-gout’measures are also ‘anti-fungal’ measures too.