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