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posted by martyb on Sunday January 06 2019, @06:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the aaaaa-choooooooo! dept.

One in 10 adults in US has food allergy, but nearly 1 in 5 think they do: Nearly half of adults with food allergy developed an allergy during adulthood

"While we found that one in 10 adults have food allergy, nearly twice as many adults think that they are allergic to foods, while their symptoms may suggest food intolerance or other food related conditions," says lead author Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, from Lurie Children's, who also is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "It is important to see a physician for appropriate testing and diagnosis before completely eliminating foods from the diet. If food allergy is confirmed, understanding the management is also critical, including recognizing symptoms of anaphylaxis and how and when to use epinephrine."

[...] "We were surprised to find that adult-onset food allergies were so common," says Dr. Gupta. "More research is needed to understand why this is occurring and how we might prevent it."

The study data indicate that the most prevalent food allergens among U.S. adults are shellfish (affecting 7.2 million adults), milk (4.7 million), peanut (4.5 million), tree nut (3 million), fin fish (2.2 million), egg (2 million), wheat (2 million), soy (1.5 million), and sesame (.5 million).


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 06 2019, @01:21PM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 06 2019, @01:21PM (#782748) Journal

    One of the few things that I know about allergies is, you might live to any age at all, and never have a problem with - whatever it is. Then, WHAM! Out of the blue, you have developed an allergy.

    The allergy that I was closest to, was a co-worker on construction. George was an older black guy, who subcontracted the actual finishing of concrete for almost all of our work. Our crew and his would get into the mud, shoulder to shoulder, doing whatever it took to place the mud. When George was happy with placement, he and his crew took over, and finished. Old dude was as good at his work as anyone you ever met. One hot summer day, his crew showed up at the job, but no George. Odd - this has never happened before . . .

    Learned that George had gone to the emergency room the evening before, with a variety of symptoms - skin peeling, white spots, itching and pain. The following day, we had another pour, and George showed up with his crew. Before we finished that pour, one of his guys was packing George into a truck, to go back to the emergency room. A different, more experienced, doctor quickly told George that his concrete working days were over.

    https://www.osha.gov/dsg/guidance/cement-guidance.html [osha.gov]
    https://www.hexarmor.com/posts/concrete-irritation-burns-and-dermatitis [hexarmor.com]

    While this is not a food allergy, I've been told that all allergies are alike in this respect.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday January 06 2019, @03:34PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 06 2019, @03:34PM (#782763)

    Epoxies are like that too. You can do fiberglass work for decades and one day, outta nowhere, hives (or worse), and you can never be around uncured epoxy again.

    There are some really exotic aviation paints that are like that; common belief (maybe not true) is everyone exposed to specific uncured paints will eventually become allergic to that specific paint chemistry, hence the high pay, partially because wearing space suits sux when working, and partially because careers will by necessity be short.

    • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday January 06 2019, @06:19PM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday January 06 2019, @06:19PM (#782808) Journal

      This happened to me when I bought an old boat on which I did a lot of repairs using polyester resin -- the smallest contact with that substance (but not the fumes) now causes hundreds of little water blisters to break out all over the region of contact, which harden, turn scaly and peel off eventually. This carried over to my 3D printing -- I discovered that HIPS filament fumes cause a sunburn like reaction to any exposed skin. The filament itself or the finished object cause no reaction, in this case it is only the fumes.

      Fortunately for me, it's just these two things and because they are both hobby related, I can just avoid them.

    • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday January 06 2019, @10:28PM

      by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Sunday January 06 2019, @10:28PM (#782880)

      There are some really exotic aviation paints that are like that; common belief (maybe not true) is everyone exposed to specific uncured paints will eventually become allergic to that specific paint chemistry

      Allergy or are these persistent chemicals that build up in fat cells or the liver or wherever until they reach a toxic level? It would be interesting to see a study on this sort of thing.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @10:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @10:47AM (#783111)

      Food allergies, People! If you are ingesting concrete or epoxy, well, that explains quite a lot about Runaway. Ol' Resin-gut, we used to call him, back when he was young and still rational.