Oct 13
(This is an excerpt of an article in Allergic Living by the publication’s editor Gwen Smith. The direct link is here:
http://allergicliving.com/index.php/2011/06/20/1-in-13-u-s-kids-has-food-allergy/ )
A new study, funded by the Food Allergy Initiative, finds that 8 percent of American children under the age of 18 have one or more food allergies. That means 5.9 million kids are at risk food-allergic reactions.
Eight percent of U.S. children 18 years and younger — about 6 million — have food allergies, according to a survey study published June 20, 2011 in the journal Pediatrics with lead author Dr. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University.
That’s twice as many children as previously reported. A 2009 study by the National Center for Health Statistics published in the journal Pediatrics found 3.9 percent of children in this age range reported food allergies.
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