Complete Avoidance of a Food That Causes an Allergic Reaction

question 72

True/False

Complete avoidance of a food that causes an allergic reaction is not required.For example,if a child is allergic to eggs,it is not necessary to avoid a food that has eggs in it as long as it has been cooked.

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Definitions:

Dextro-

Prefix indicating the right-handed (clockwise) configuration of a chiral molecule, often used in stereochemistry.

Levorotatory

Relating to a substance that rotates the plane of polarized light to the left.

Optical Activity

The ability of a molecule to rotate plane-polarized light, a property used to distinguish between enantiomers in stereochemistry.

Enantiomers

Molecules that are mirror images of each other but cannot be superimposed upon one another, similar to left and right hands.