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Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) is a non-profit, private organization dedicated to food allergy awareness, research, education, and advocacy. FARE's goal is to enhance the lives of people with food allergies by providing support and resources to help them live safe yet productive lives.
3-6% are affected by food allergy; Children in the United States under 18 years of age: [3] Percent with any allergy: 27.2%; Percent with seasonal allergy: 18.9%; Percent with eczema: 10.8%; Percent with food allergy: 5.8%; Children in the United Kingdom: [2] 1 in 6 with eczema; 1 in 5 with allergic rhinitis; 7.1% of breast-fed infants who ...
Where to find help if you child has allergies
In Australia, hospital admission rates for food-induced anaphylaxis increased by an average of 13.2% from 1994-2005. [93] One possible explanation for the rise in food allergy is the "old friends" hypothesis, which suggests that non-disease-causing organisms, such as helminths , could protect against allergy.
The Anaphylaxis Campaign has tried to raise awareness of the problems caused by inconsistency in how severe allergy is diagnosed. [8] To help improve awareness among frontline medical practitioners, it launched an online training programme, called AllergyWise, [ 9 ] in 2011, accredited by the Royal College of Nursing .
Anaphylactoid reaction, non-immune anaphylaxis, or pseudoanaphylaxis, is a type of anaphylaxis that does not involve an allergic reaction but is due to direct mast cell degranulation. [ 10 ] [ 42 ] Non-immune anaphylaxis is the current term, as of 2018, used by the World Allergy Organization [ 42 ] with some recommending that the old ...
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