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Food allergies are on the rise
Food allergies are an increasing problem with gluten, milk, eggs, fish, nuts, soya, celery and sulfite the main triggers.
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The question is if they are really on the rise or if this is a combination of better diagnosis and overprotective parents and hypochondriacs jumping to conclusions. For gluten I suspect there is lots of latter as it as become almost a fashionable allergy.
My daughter had a severe anaphylactic reaction to macadamia nuts. Maybe in the past kids just suddenly died and no-one knew why. I'm not sure how likely it is that you can have an actual "allergy" to gluten, given "allergy" is a specific medical term. You can have an allergy to wheat proteins but that is a different thing.