30 Quotes About Allergy

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.

As a country becomes more developed, allergy rises and rises. And the notion there is that in the more-developed countries, you may be getting less exposure to infections and germs and other things that may stimulate your immune system in a direction other than allergy, ... The more your immune system is kept busy by exposure to germs and infections early in life, the less time it can devote to things like allergy.

The exact mechanism by which peanut allergy may recur is not known, but we know that the children in our study who ate concentrated forms of peanut frequently had a considerably lower chance of having a recurrence of their allergy.