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"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).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday January 06 2019, @03:29PM (3 children)
That's because the dude is doing infinite and frankly not useful hair splitting for a political/financial purpose.
Lets say you want people to eat more wheat, because I donno, you grow the stuff or are a political action committee for wheat farmers or whatevs. A crazy guy would redefine the symptoms of illness resulting from wheat consumption as merely being a "food related condition" and ta da he gets his research contract money by redefining away every person with Celiac disease as no longer being an "allergy". Note that this has no effect on reality; people who puke after eating wheat will still puke, antibody levels in the blood will be crazy high, malnutrition due to the puking, stomach wall biopsies will be abnormal, etc. The purpose of the article is sophistry of the highest (lowest?) sort. The linked article is not scientific discussion about the world, but mere sophistry.
If eating wheat makes you puke, and not eating wheat makes you not puke, if your doctor wants to play word games WRT it being a "food related condition" vs a "genuine allergy" will you continue to eat wheat resulting in puking, or if you've already figured out not eating wheat results in no puking will you continue not to puke even if that not puking makes some industry shill, shrill?
For another example, say an dumb carpenter said he was allergic to hitting his thumb with a hammer. A doctor can reeeeeee about how thats not an allergy all he wants; in the real world should anyone intentionally hit their thumb with a hammer merely because some industry shill reeeeeee'd about his thoughts being impure and incorrect and its merely a bruise not an allergy so humans are not allergic to hammer strikes to the thumb so OSHA should F right off? It gets weirder WRT woodworkers and "tropical hardwood" allergies, which seem to be real. Also some of the more adventurous wood finishes and glues in uncured form can cause quite an allergic response (thinking epoxy bar tops, for example).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @04:35PM
What? Sense? Crazy talk!
Why aren't you joining our incel bashing?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @11:58PM (1 child)
I have onion intolerance, it's fairly common, I exhibit all kinds of symptons, especially if the onions are not well cooked. Do I not eat onions? Of course I do. They are fuckign delicious. I also know many lactose intolerant people who will eat ice cream, because sometimes it's worth the pain. Intolerance is definitely not the same thing as allergy, not even close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @12:54AM
For people confused about the difference, allergy means you're going to die in two minutes as your throat swells closed and you suffocate. Intolerance means you're going to die in 20-40 years from a malnutrition related sickness because your immune system slowly attacked and destroyed yourself. Eating vitamin pills won't help because the parts of you that absorb those nutrients are gone, destroyed by your immune system because it thought they were a threat. It's easy to know if you have an allergy. Some people never uncover their intolerances.