However, the research isn't clear on whether there are
actually more food allergies, or just more identification of them.
Not exact matches
This equates to around two million people living in the UK with a
food allergy, this figure does not include those with
food intolerances.1 Considering that, there are
actually even
more people living with a
food allergy or
food intolerance.
Substantive research already exists showing nut free schools (not early childhood, but mid elementary onwards)
actually do
more harm than good, to the extent that the official anaphylaxis prevention guidelines have been updated by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and
Allergy to explicitly state that
food bans in upper primary and high schools do not work, and can
actually cause problems.
Of course, like with a lot of health disorders, it's not always entirely clear if the number of kids with
allergies has
actually risen or if we're just better at diagnosing
food allergies now, but either way,
more food allergies are part of our everyday lives now.
Peanut
allergies can be among a parent's biggest worries, though we've had good evidence for
more than a year that when most babies are 6 months old or so, introducing
foods that contain finely ground peanuts can
actually reduce babies» chances of becoming allergic to the legumes.
However, some
more recent research examining if introduction of these
foods in the first year of life may
actually help prevent
food allergy is beginning to challenge the
more traditional approach to introducing these
foods.
Very often
food intolerances or other non-allergic
food reactions are confused with
food allergies which leads to the mistaken belief that
food allergies are
more common than they
actually are.
A
more traditional dog
food may
actually be setting off his
allergies.