If a patient starts vomiting immediately after eating seafood and states that the one other time he or she ate seafood,he or she had a similar reaction,the patient probably has

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A food allergy may cause vomiting immediately after the offending food is eaten;because the same thing happened when the patient ate seafood before,an allergy is even more likely.A viral infection or food poisoning would not occur every time the patient ate seafood.Celiac disease is caused by an immunologic reaction to gluten,which is not found in seafood.

If a Patient Starts Vomiting Immediately After Eating Seafood and States