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Digestive system disorder where a particular food irritates the digestive tract or cannot be properly digested (i.e., due to a lack of a digestive enzyme). It differs from FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY which is an immune system disorder, usually due to specific proteins in food. http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/problem-foods-is-it-an-allergy-or-intolerance.
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- Food, Sensitivity
- Intolerance, Food
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2018
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- National Library of Medicine. Food Intolerance. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000073923. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000073923
- Food Intolerance. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_intolerance
- Food Intolerance. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1727229