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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 Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @10:35AM
That wouldn't work for me, my personal kryptonite is egg..microscopic traces make me ill (hello toilet my old friend, it's days on you that I'll now spend...with apologies to Simon&Garfunkel) larger quantities then it's anaphylaxis.
This crap hit me in my mid-teens, one day I could eat eggs...the next, it was hospital time after eating a bit of a boiled one...and here we are, 40 years of preparing my own food later..
I do not eat out, as I cant risk it, and I do not regard it as either reasonable or fair to expect any public eatery to minimise the chances of cross-contamination by implementing the near clinical separation of pots, pans and utensils I have at home for my use alone, and also to have a separate cleaning regime for them as well (I learned *that* lesson the hard way early on)
I'm not alone, all the people I know with serious food allergies are quite paranoid about their food and tend not to eat anything prepared by anyone but themselves/SOs.
If I was a restaurateur, I'd display a very prominent notice detailing all the ingredients used in the kitchens both the entrance and on the menu, if someone with an allergy or intolerance to any of them still insists on ordering then I'd hit them with a liability waiver (lawyer drafted and approved) to be signed and witnessed before proceeding.