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Food allergies occur when your immune system makes a mistake. Normally, your immune (say: ih-myoon) system protects you from germs and disease. It does this by making antibodies that help you fight off bacteria, viruses, and other tiny organisms that can make you sick. But if you have a food allergy, your immune system mistakenly treats something in a certain food as if it's really dangerous to you.
These foods cause the most food allergies:
peanuts and other nuts
seafood, such as shrimp
milk, particularly cow's milk
eggs
soy
wheat
Source: kidshealth.org/kid/stay_heal
thy/food/food_allergies.html
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