Food allergies in children have risen 50 percent since the late 1990s, with Maryland and D.C. having some of the highest rates in the country. And no one knows why.
To combat the rise, the Centers for Disease Control, which reported the 50 percent increase in a 2013 study, recently released a 108-page comprehensive guide to assist schools. The “Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care and Education Programs” meticulously documents procedures and policies regarding the disease.
The guidelines label symptoms of an allergy attack, including how a child would articulate such symptoms, like, “my mouth feels funny” or “my tongue feels like there is a hair on it.”
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Why are their so many food allergies? Seriously growing up in the 70-80's, the worse allergy I ever heard of was bees!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful everyday I don't have to worry about allergies with my children.
What has changed in the past 30 years that this number has jumped so much??????
Anyone???
Flu shots...HPV shots, other "required" shots by Big Pharma.
ReplyDeletePretty simple.
How about we make food companies label what they put in our foods
ReplyDeleteHow about the food companies, when they make things like "Hickory smoked bacon" they just put in bacon, and hickory smoke? Leave out all that other crap.
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