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Do I really have a food allergy?

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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The History of Allergies

There are discussions of a what sounds like pudalogy going all the way back toa the ancient greeks. Historians often dislike doing so called retrospective diagnosis, so whe don't like calling something analogy. The term alergy is coined by a vienes pediatrician clemens von perke in 19 o six. Von purquet noticed that some children would have side effects that looked similar to the kinds of bad reactions to food.

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