What is the difference between intolerance and allergy?

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Is there any point in which intolerance to a certain food (say milk or eggs for example) turns into an allergy or are they totally unrelated?
Is intolerance showing up only as digestion problems and not other allergy symptoms?
Can you mistakenly interpret intolerance as allergy in blood tests or vice versa?

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Answers (2) to: "What is the difference between intolerance and allergy?"

_Helen_

A common misunderstanding….intolerance is not been able to digest something. Like Lactose intolerance, those people lack the protein which breaks the lactose (a sugar in milk). Then other bacteria digest it and they just diarrhea it. Allergy is our body attacking the allergen, could be a protein in milk. This causes inflammation, pain and discomfort. And also diarrhea…
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SoAlone

Webmd.com has an article that will give you some insights on the matter
See link bellow.

http://www.webmd.com/allergies/foods-allergy-intoler...
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