Food Allergies Linked to Raised Risk of Asthma, Hay Fever
Children with food allergies are at
increased risk for asthma and hay fever, and the
risk rises with the number of food allergies, new research shows.
The study included information on nearly 363,000 children and teens. Half of the
kids were white, and 40 percent were black. Between 7 and 8 percent had one food allergy.
"For patients with an established diagnosis offood allergy, 35 percent went on to developasthma," said study senior author Dr.
Jonathan Spergel. He is chief of the division of allergy and immunology at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
"Patients with multiple food allergies were at increased
risk of developing asthma as
compared to those with a single food allergy," he added in a hospital news
release.
Just over one-third of patients with food allergy went on to
develop hay fever, also called allergic rhinitis,
Spergel said.
Those rates are about double that of children and teens in
the general population, the study authors said. However, this study doesn't
prove a cause-and-effect link between these factors.
The study's lead researcher was Dr. David Hill. "Of the
major food allergens, allergy to peanut, milk and egg significantly predisposed
children to asthma and allergic rhinitis," Hill said.
"Eczema, asthma and
allergic rhinitis are among the most common childhood medical conditions in the
U.S.," he noted.
Hill, who is an allergy and immunology fellow, added that
there's a greater need for more information on these conditions because the
rates have been changing.
The study was published recently in the journal BMC Pediatrics.
Source: www.medicinenet.com
19.09.2016
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