PMID- 23718236
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140207
LR  - 20160704
IS  - 1938-2359 (Electronic)
IS  - 0090-4481 (Linking)
VI  - 42
IP  - 6
DP  - 2013 Jun 1
TI  - Epidemiology of childhood food allergy.
PG  - 91-5
LID - 10.3928/00904481-20130522-08 [doi]
AB  - Food allergy is a public health problem that affects nearly 6 million children in 
      the United States. The extent to which children, families, and communities live 
      with food allergies varies as much as the range of clinical symptoms associated 
      with the disease itself. Food allergy is defined as the reproducible adverse 
      event that elicits a pathologic immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated or 
      non-IgE-mediated reaction. Once an allergic child ingests a specific food 
      allergen, the reaction can result in clinical symptoms ranging from mild hives to 
      life-threatening anaphylaxis.Not surprisingly, food allergies have been shown to 
      limit social interactions and impair children's quality of life due to the 
      ubiquity of food where children live, learn, and play. To ensure the safety of 
      our children, the development of sound policy, clinical practice, and health 
      programs must be informed by current research characterizing childhood food 
      allergy at the population level. To set the stage for understanding the current 
      evidence base, this article reviews: 1) epidemiology of childhood food allergy; 
      2) severity of symptoms; 3) geographic distribution of childhood food allergy; 4) 
      tolerance; 5) economic impact of childhood food allergy; and 6) future directions 
      in childhood food allergy epidemiological research.
CI  - Copyright 2013, SLACK Incorporated.
FAU - Dyer, Ashley A
AU  - Dyer AA
AD  - Center for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of 
      Medicine, 750 North Lake Shore Drive, 10th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. 
      ashley.dyer@northwestern.edu
FAU - Gupta, Ruchi
AU  - Gupta R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Pediatr Ann
JT  - Pediatric annals
JID - 0356657
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Cost of Illness
MH  - Disease Progression
MH  - Food Hypersensitivity/economics/*epidemiology
MH  - Health Care Costs
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
MH  - United States/epidemiology
EDAT- 2013/05/31 06:00
MHDA- 2014/02/08 06:00
CRDT- 2013/05/31 06:00
PHST- 2013/05/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/05/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/02/08 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.3928/00904481-20130522-08 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Pediatr Ann. 2013 Jun 1;42(6):91-5. doi: 10.3928/00904481-20130522-08.