ARE FOOD ALLERGIES ON THE RISE? Let's see if there is a growing trend!
Channel: Health me Food
Date: 2018-12-26

Do you think food allergies are increasing? And if they are, what are the true reasons? Today we will see it together.


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Allergies Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/imj.13362

BBC Article on my Facebook page:
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A while ago I posted on my Facebook page a BBC article, which was discussing about food allergy. 
And if these allergies and intolerances were increasing.

I noticed that I picked up your attention with that article published on my Facebook page, so I decided to deepen the subject and discussing it with you.

I think this video will be slightly longer than previous ones, but the subject it is quite complex, and it is better to fully understand all variables involved.

Of course, to analyse the problem with you, I'm not going to search for information on Google, to find in front of me, an article of the first paranoid individual scared about conspiracy around.
Instead the answers I am proposing you come from a scientific paper.

It is quite recent, being dated 2017.

The study is titled "Food Allergy: is prevalence increasing?" 

The article starts with the main question: it is possible or not, to determine whether food allergies are constantly growing.

Are we able to intercept, in a unique way people, with allergies so that they can be monitored?

Most of the studies are performed mainly through surrogate markers, which in practice are the analysis of the event that already happened, such as hospitalization due to an anaphylactic shock for example.

Or sometimes, from a simple request from the patient himself who seeks, on his own curiosity, to investigate his potential allergic reactions.
But all these data are linked to variables too volatile because they are related only to the possibility of obtaining similar medical services. 

Whereby the Western nations are potentially more advanced in providing these medical services. 
This means that data obtained worldwide, are not necessarily homogeneous, in terms of research nor do they give a real picture of the situation.

Moreover, the IgE test, those carried out at the haemoglobin level, for the allergen research, can always give false positives.

Moreover, a variable percentage between 50 and 70% of people who are positive for allergy testing were found able to swallow potentially triggering food sources, without developing an allergic reaction.

For what we can understand, however, countries with high development index, seem to be more at risk.

And this is substantially more monitorable in the paediatric age, because fortunately, there is greater attention and control, in the first months and years of the child's life.

The incidence is substantial with peaks ranging between 5 and 10% for children affected by allergy.

The most relevant peaks are associated with peanut allergy, sesame seeds and eggs, with milk also present, but in percentages slightly smaller than other allergies.

For adults, however, the incidence is less monitorable, because we adults are able to decide when to go to the doctor.
And many times, we overlook some alarming symptomatology. 

But what you see is that between 0 and 18 years of age, it seems that the incidence is greater, compared to individuals of older ages, especially people over 30 years.

There is also evidence that the subjects of Caucasian origin, like me who I am Italian, have a lower incidence than the Asian populations.

This indicates that ethnicity, too, could play as a risk factor.
What you notice is that, where urbanization is increasing, even allergic conditions tend to increase

One aspect not to be overlooked is the cost that every national health service has, and for which the community, must support to diagnose, prevent and control allergies.

Only in the United States every year we spend about 225 million dollars, indirect costs related to allergies, and further 115 million of indirect costs. These are huge figures.