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Allergies Are Becoming More Frequent. Why?

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday October 13 2015, @10:11PM   
from the ahhhhh-choooooooo dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Allergies are becoming more frequent in the western world. One in three people in Australia will develop allergies at some time in their life. One in 20 will develop a food allergy and one in 100 will have a life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.

Hospital admissions for anaphylaxis doubled in the ten years from 1994 to 2004, and were five times higher in children under five years old over the same period. This suggests the development of allergy in early life is increasing at a faster rate than in adults.

Children are more likely to develop allergies to eggs, dairy products or peanuts, while adults are more likely to develop an allergy to seafood.

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• Re:Mother's milk! (Score: 3, Informative) by Adrian Harvey on Wednesday October 14 2015, @08:09AM

  by Adrian Harvey (222) on Wednesday October 14 2015, @08:09AM (#249325)

  It's a factor in a lot of health areas. The most fascinating fact I know about this is that during the Siege of Paris (1870-71) the infant mortality rate *fell* because restricted food supplies and limits on going out to work forced women to breastfeed rather than use bottled milk. see, for eg: http://www.neonatology.org/classics/graham.html [neonatology.org] or http://qi.com/infocloud/the-siege-of-paris [qi.com]

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