Food Allergies on the Rise

I dont know about you guys, but i have really bad allergies. Especially with all the fires in Southern California, the air quality has been disgusting. It seems now a days that more and more kids are having the same symptoms as I am. Even with food allergies too, although i do not (or at least i don't think) i have food allergies. So why the sudden increase in allergies?

Experts said that might be because parents are more aware and quicker to have their kids checked out by a doctor. About 1 in 26 children had food allergies last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. That’s up from 1 in 29 kids in 1997. The 18 percent increase is significant enough to be considered more than a statistical blip, said Amy Branum of the CDC, the study’s lead author.

The 18 percent increase is significant enough to be considered more than a statistical blip, said Amy Branum of the CDC, the study’s lead author. Nobody knows for sure what’s driving the increase. A doubling in peanut allergies — noted in earlier studies — is one factor, some experts said. Also, children seems to be taking longer to outgrow milk and egg allergies than they did in decades past. But also figuring into the equation are parents and doctors who are more likely to consider food as the trigger for symptoms like vomiting, skin rashes and breathing problems.

“A couple of decades ago, it was not uncommon to have kids sick all the time and we just said ’They have a weak stomach’ or ’They’re sickly,”’ said Anne Munoz-Furlong, chief executive of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, a Virginia-based advocacy organization. Parents today are quicker to take their kids to specialists to check out the possibility of food allergies, said Munoz-Furlong, who founded the nonprofit in 1991. The CDC results came from an in-person, door-to-door survey in 2007 of the households of 9,500 U.S. children under age 18.

Original Article from MSNBC

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