Episode Transcript
面试官: What are the symptoms of food allergies? We'll examine that next on 范围.
播音员: This is "From the Frontlines" with emergency room physician Dr. 特洛伊马德森 on 范围. 关于瞄准镜.
面试官: If you're listening to this right now, you probably suspect you might have a food allergy and you're curious to know for sure if that could be the case. Probably have a lot of questions and so do I so we're going to talk to Dr. 特洛伊马德森. He's an emergency room physician at University of Utah Health Care. So symptoms of food allergies, how do I know if I have a food allergy? What are some of the common symptoms? And there's a difference between food allergies and food sensitivities?
Dr. 马德森: 完全, yeah and that's often a point of confusion, but allergies are like any other kind of allergy. If you have a food allergy, it can range from mild, so maybe some itching, little bit of a rash; to more severe, where you have some 喉咙闷, 嘴唇发麻, to really severe cases where you just can't breathe. So those are what we think of with allergies.
面试官: With food allergies. And is it possible for me to just be minding my business, I'm eating something I've eaten my whole life and now, 突然之间, my throat's swollen, like I've reacted that quickly and that severely?
Dr. 马德森: It is possible and, surprisingly, it's not uncommon. People I've known who have had eaten shellfish for years and then sometime in adulthood, eat some lobster or some shrimp, and just suddenly develop itching and facial swelling and trouble breathing. So it's entirely possible. You could've eaten this food for years and then, later in life, develop a food allergy.
面试官: 好吧. And if you start having these symptoms, what should you do?
Dr. 马德森: If they're mild symptoms, 像皮疹一样, maybe just a little bit of itching, you're probably okay just to take some Benadryl. But if it's more severe, anything that involves the airway, 嘴唇肿胀吗？, 舌头肿胀, 喉咙闷, trouble breathing, that's where I would even call 911. 我的意思是, you've got to get to the ER because those things can develop really quickly and be life-threatening, 非常, very severe reactions.
面试官: So those symptoms again, lip swelling, 舌头肿胀, tingling?
Dr. 马德森: Tingling, I would get to the ER and, again, if you're . . . any concerns about your airway, call 911.
面试官: 好吧. Don't mess around with that.
Dr. 马德森: 完全.
面试官: I feel like we only talked for a few seconds here about this topic. Have we covered it all? Is that pretty much it?
Dr. 马德森: Well, like you mentioned, there's also the issue with food sensitivity versus allergies. 所以大发娱乐, we're talking about very different things, some people may have concerns about gluten or other things in foods. There, they may have some more abdominal cramping, maybe some nausea, diarrhea. That's not a true allergy. 再一次。, the allergies are the things we think of with any sort of allergy: itching, 皮疹, 气道问题, much more concerning in terms of getting to the ER.
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