### Human:\nwhat are the symptoms of a food allergy?\n\n### Assistant: food allergy symptoms include skin gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms. skin symptoms include hives or an itchy red rash; respiratory symptoms include coughing wheezing and laryngoedema (a swollen throat); and the gastrointestinal symptoms include significant vomiting intestinal pain and diarrhea. these symptoms are always temporally related to ingestion -- that means very close in time. often it's seconds to minutes after ingestion but always within hours. if you drink milk today and have symptoms tomorrow it's not related.