{"id":2788,"date":"2015-05-11T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2015-05-11T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:20:18","slug":"food-allergy-action-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/05\/11\/2788\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Allergy Action Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthyyouth\/images\/flexslider\/cafeteria_456X257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"159\" \/>May is Food Allergy Action Month.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db10.pdf\">Food allergy <\/a>is a potentially serious immune response to eating specific foods or food additives. Eight types of food account for over 90% of allergic reactions in affected individuals: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat.\u00a0 Reactions to these foods by an allergic person can range from a tingling sensation around the mouth and lips and hives to death, depending on the severity of the allergy. The mechanisms by which a person develops an allergy to specific foods are largely unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Food allergy is more prevalent in children than adults, and a majority of affected children will &#8220;outgrow food&#8221; allergies with age. However, food allergy can sometimes become a lifelong concern.<\/p>\n<p>Among children under 17 years old, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db121.pdf\">prevalence of food allergies <\/a>increased from 3.4% in 1997\u2013 1999 to 5.1% in 2009\u20132011.\u00a0 Hispanic children had a lower prevalence of food allergy compared with non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black children.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of food allergy increased with income level. Among children with family income less than 100% of the poverty level, 4.4% had a food allergy. Food allergy prevalence among children with family income between 100% and 200% of the poverty level was 5%.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db10.htm\">2004 to 2006<\/a>, there were approximately 9,500 hospital discharges per year with a diagnosis related to food allergy among children under age 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>For More Information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthyyouth\/foodallergies\/\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthyyouth\/foodallergies\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db10.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db10.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db121.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db121.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is Food Allergy Action Month.\u00a0 Food allergy is a potentially serious immune response to eating specific foods or food additives. Eight types of food account for over 90% of allergic reactions in affected individuals: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat.\u00a0 Reactions to these foods by an allergic person can range<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"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=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}