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It is important for parents to pay attention to the report ?Living With Food Allergy? ? ?Food Allergy Among U.S. Children: Trends in Prevalence and Hospitalizations? released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, as it shows some worrying results: food allergies are increasing among US kids at an alarming rate. According to the report, children with food allergies are two to four times more likely to suffer from asthma or other respiratory problems and eczema, compared to children without.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 3 million U.S. children have a food or digestive allergy — an 18 percent increase over the past 10 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday.
Eight types of food account for 90 percent of these food allergies: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics found.
Reactions range from a tingling sensation around the mouth and lips, to hives and sometimes even death in the most severe cases.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 3 million U.S. children have a food or digestive allergy — an 18 percent increase over the past 10 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday.
Eight types of food account for 90 percent of these food allergies: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics found.
Reactions range from a tingling sensation around the mouth and lips, to hives and sometimes even death in the most severe cases.
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SUNDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — An apple a day while you’re pregnant may indeed keep the doctor away. But the real beneficiary could be your unborn child.
Recent research suggests that when moms-to-be eat apples during pregnancy, their offspring have lower rates of asthma.
And, mothers who consume fish during pregnancy may lower their child’s risk of developing the allergic skin condition called eczema.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 — The number of American kids with food allergies has soared 18 percent in the last decade, with an estimated 4 percent of children and teens now affected with the condition, a new federal report says.
In 2007, approximately 3 million children under the age of 18 were reported to have had a food or digestive allergy in the previous 12 months, compared to slightly more than 2.3 million children (3.3 percent) in 1997, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Child food allergies are up 18% over the last decade, the CDC reports.
Four out of every 100 U.S. kids under age 18 now suffer food allergies, which doubles their risk of asthma and triples their risk of skin or respiratory allergies.
“It is a significant trend — food allergies do appear to be continuously increasing over the decade,” CDC health statistician Amy Barnum, MSPH , tells WebMD. “And if you look at hospital discharges with any diagnosis related to food allergy, there has been a significant increase.”
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MONDAY, Nov. 10 — The number of U.S. children allergic to foods such as peanuts, milk and fish is rising rapidly.
At the same time, researchers are working on new approaches to treating these allergies, according to two reports to be presented Monday at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s annual meeting, in Seattle.
An estimated 3 million children under 18 had a food allergy in 2007, an 18 percent increase since 1997, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Milk may be a treatment for milk allergy. In a carefully controlled study, researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Duke University found that giving milk-allergic children milk in increasingly higher doses over time eased their allergic reactions to milk and even helped some of the children completely overcome their milk allergy.
The findings suggest that giving milk-allergic children milk “gradually retrains the immune system to completely disregard or to better tolerate the allergens in milk that previously caused allergic reactions,” Dr. Robert Wood, senior investigator on the study and director of Allergy & Immunology at Hopkins Children’s in Baltimore, noted in a statement.
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