(Prevention) According to UCLA Health System, “The occurrence of allergic disease is skyrocketing, and some estimates are that as many as one-in-five Americans have an allergic condition.”
You don’t have to tell that to parents.
Today, a food allergic reaction sends someone to the emergency room once every three minutes. One in ten children struggle with asthma, and one in four are affected by allergies. The incidence of allergy has increased significantly over the past two decades, and allergy to peanuts more than doubled from 1997 to 2002.
The National Association of Nurses now says 19% of school age children have a food allergy.
