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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: 2) by HiThere on Sunday January 06 2019, @05:12PM
Epinephrine is only useful in treating some allergies. Others don't respond to it. So your final figure is a low-balled estimate.
OTOH, my allergist required me to carry epinephrine, but didn't give me a prescription. (He supplied it.) So even the low-balled estimate is too low. (That said, I never had to use it, and no longer carry it.)
Not all allergies are life threatening. I suspect that most aren't. But even though it isn't life threatening, it can be quite disagreeable, so I really need to avoid certain foods. (One example of something I avoid is bell peppers [not chili peppers, though], which causes intestinal bleeding in me. But that's not something that shows up on the allergy test, and I can eat things lightly flavored with bell peppers, so if they're in chunks large enough to remove, they cause me no problem. But officially it's not an allergy.) That's not an official allergy, but it causes me real problems. OTOH, I test positive to an allergy to shrimp, but that's never given me a problem. (Perhaps prawns are sufficiently different from shrimp?)
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