{"id":1510,"date":"2013-05-06T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2013-05-06T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:29:04","slug":"food-and-skin-allergies-increase-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/05\/06\/1510\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Skin Allergies Increase in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allergic conditions are among the most common medical conditions affecting children in the United States. An allergic condition is a hypersensitivity disorder in which the immune system reacts to substances in the environment that are normally considered harmless. Food or digestive allergies, skin allergies (such as eczema), and respiratory allergies (such as hay fever) are the most common allergies among children.<\/p>\n<p>NCHS has put out a <a title=\"Trends in Allergic Conditions Among Children: United States, 1997\u20132011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db121.pdf\">report<\/a> that presents recent trends in the prevalence of allergies and differences by selected sociodemographic characteristics for children under age 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Among children aged 0\u201317 years, the prevalence of food allergies increased from 3.4% in 1997\u20131999 to 5.1% in 2009\u20132011. The prevalence of skin allergies increased from 7.4% in 1997\u20131999 to 12.5% in 2009\u20132011. There was no significant trend in respiratory allergies from 1997\u20131999 to 2009\u20132011, yet respiratory allergy remained the most common type of allergy among children throughout this period (17% in 2009\u20132011). Skin allergy prevalence was also higher than food allergy prevalence for each period from 1997\u20132011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The prevalence of skin allergies decreased with age. In contrast, the prevalence of respiratory allergies increased with age.<\/li>\n<li>Hispanic children had a lower prevalence of food allergy, skin allergy, and respiratory allergy compared with children of other race or ethnicities. Non-Hispanic black children were more likely to have skin allergies and less likely to have respiratory allergies compared with non-Hispanic white children.<\/li>\n<li>Food and respiratory allergy prevalence increased with income level. Children with family income equal to or greater than 200% of the poverty level had the highest prevalence rates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db121_fig02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"width:442px;height:278px\" alt=\"Percentage of children aged 0\u201317 years with a reported allergic condition in the past 12 months, by age group: United States, average annual 2009\u20132011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db121_fig02.png\" width=\"446\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Data source and methods<\/h3>\n<p>Prevalence estimates for allergic conditions were obtained from the Health Data Interactive (HDI) table, &#8220;Allergic conditions, ages 0\u201317: U.S., 1997\u20132011,&#8221; available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/hdi.htm\">Health Data Interactive website<\/a>. NHIS data were used to estimate the prevalence of allergic conditions for this HDI table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allergic conditions are among the most common medical conditions affecting children in the United States. An allergic condition is a hypersensitivity disorder in which the immune system reacts to substances in the environment that are normally considered harmless. Food or digestive allergies, skin allergies (such as eczema), and respiratory allergies (such as hay fever) are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}