World recrudescence of the food allergies!

World recrudescence of the food allergies!
Since the Twenties, France, like other industrialized countries, knows a strong increase in the food allergies. Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) place these allergies like the 4th world problem of public health.

Approximately 1,8 to 4% of the European population would be touched by a problem of food allergy. In Europe, close to a child on three is likely to present one day or the other of the allergic demonstrations. In France, the frequency of the food allergy increases and is currently estimated at 3,5%. A food allergy can result in various evils: simple button until the shock anaphylactic, an acute allergy which can involve the death.

Food allergy, asthma and eczema
According to a study undertaken between 1991 and 1992, the food allergies would be at the origin of 10% of the shocks anaphylactic in France. Compared with another study carried out ten years before, this frequency would have more than triplet in France. Moreover, 5% of the people victims of chronic urticaria have a food allergy. The responsibility for the food allergy in asthma is underestimated and could be 4 to 8% in the adult and up to 17% in the young child. In the children of less than 4 years, 40% of eczemas are related to a food allergy. Of what to worry!

A too early diversification of the food of the infants
Up to 15 years, the food allergies most frequent (53% of the cases) come from animal products. First person in charge: the egg! This product is responsible for 34,2% of the food cases of allergies at this age bracket, followed by the cow's milk. All in all, one can say that the children are generally allergic to animal proteins whereas the adults are touched by the allergies to the products of vegetable origin. With an exception close however: the groundnut, an allergen which touches today severely the young people. Sensitizing during the pregnancy, too early diversification of the food of the infants and breast feeding containing cow's milk seem largely responsible for the increase in the frequency of the pediatric food allergies. The preventive interest of breast feeding to the center during the first six months of the life of baby from now on was shown. Failing this it is preferable to choose a milk out of hypoallergenic box.

Any food can cause an allergy
In the adults, the food allergies concern, in 83% of the cases, the products of vegetable origin. But in fact, any ingredient, even most banal and which more is with the state of traces, can cause a food allergy. Vis-a-vis the width of the products potentially allergisants, to make the good diagnosis concerns for the doctors the most complex judicial enquiry. For this reason, 75% of the allergists, pediatrists and lung specialists, declare that the diagnosis of the food allergy is an extremely delicate exercise. All in all, a interrogation precise and detailed, an analysis over one week of all your food and the labels of the food which you introduced, as well as an assessment by cutaneous tests comprising at least about thirty suspected allergens and a blood assessment will be the minimum necessary for the diagnosis. Once identified culprits, only one solution: the total ousting of these ingredients. What is not simple thing…