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Why the world is becoming more allergic to food
BBC Dec 2018
- “Food allergy now affects about 7% of children in the UK and 9% of those in Australia, for example.”
- “For example, there was a five-fold increase in peanut allergies in the UK between 1995 and 2016.”
- “One study found 9% of Australian one-year-olds had an egg allergy, while 3% were allergic to peanuts.”
- “Migrants appear to show a higher prevalence of asthma and food allergy in their adopted country compared to their country of origin, further illustrating the importance of environmental factors.”
- Note: Migrants often have dark skin and thus lower levels of vitamin D
- “Another idea is that vitamin D can help our immune system develop a healthy response, making us less susceptible to allergies. Most populations around the world do not get enough vitamin D for several reasons, including spending less time in the sun. In the US, the rate of vitamin D deficiency is thought to have almost doubled in just over a decade.”
See also VitaminDWiki
- Allergy - Overview
- Vitamin D less than 15 ng associated with some allergies – Feb 2011
- 30 to 40 ng of vitamin D associated with the least peanut allergy – Nov 2012
- Food allergy 12X more likely if low vitamin D and vitamin D binding gene problem – Aug 2015
- Less sun (less vitamin D) more anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction) – June 2014
- Incidence of 22 health problems related to vitamin D have doubled in a decade
- 3 to 55 X more likely to have these health problems if low Vitamin D
- Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic
- 3X more allergy to peanuts if child born with low UV – Feb 2011
- Vitamin D levels have been crashing since 1995 (Polish Children, US Military, etc)
Items in both categories Autoimmune and Infant/Child are listed here:
- Breastfeeding a child without adding vitamin D increases risk of many food allergies (egg whites in this case) – Jan 2020
- Antibiotics increased the risk of asthma by 47%, and allergies by 25% - Dec 2019
- Low vitamin D newborns getting cows milk formula more likely to get allergies – RCT Oct 2019
- Childhood allergies (Atopy) 4.8 X more likely if low vitamin D in early pregnancy – Aug 2019
- Kawasaki disease (strawberry tongue) not treated by occasional 400 IU of Vitamin D – Feb 2019
- Food allergy is linked to season of birth, sun exposure, and vitamin D deficiency – Jan 2019
- Childhood Food Allergies (UK 1 in 14) – huge recent increase (low vitamin D) - Dec 2018
- Food allergies are associated with Vitamin D thru genes, etc. – March 2018
- Food allergies in children may be due to earlier low Vitamin D, Omega-3 and Zinc – Aug 2017
- T1 Diabetes associated with many other autoimmune diseases (all related to low vitamin D) – May 2017
- Infant allergy to cow’s milk will go away if have high levels of vitamin D – Jan 2017
- Food allergies and low vitamin D – thymus may be the connection – June 2016
- Food allergies 6 times higher in South Australia - 2009
- Hypothesis – Australia has highest rate of food allergy due to avoiding the sun – Sept 2015
- Food allergy 12X more likely if low vitamin D and vitamin D binding gene problem – Aug 2015
- Too much vitamin D: 1 pcnt increase in infants with food allergy, too little: 500 pcnt increase in children with food allergy - Aug 2015
- Kawasaki disease (strawberry tongue) associated with very low vitamin D – May 2015
- Less sun (less vitamin D) more anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction) – June 2014
- Low vitamin D at birth associated with later milk sensitization, allergic rhinitis and asthma – Nov 2014
- Pink eye (seasonal allergic conjunctivitis) associated with low vitamin D and high vitamin E – March 2014
- 11X more non-immigrant children allergic to peanuts if vitamin D less than 20 ng – Feb 2013
- 30 to 40 ng of vitamin D associated with the least peanut allergy – Nov 2012
- High level of maternal vitamin D and infant food allergy – controversy
- Youths with autoimmunity disorders were 2.3 X more likely to be vitamin D deficient – July 2012
- Still unsure of association between vitamin D and asthma and allergies – review April 2012
- Allergy - Overview
- 3X more allergy to peanuts if child born with low UV – Feb 2011
- More childhood allergies when vitamin D is less than 15 ng – Feb 2011
Additional possible causes for reduced immunity (especially in developed countries)
- Antibiotics and Vitamin D are associated with many of the same diseases
- Increased screen time and decreased time outdoors, getting vitamin D if outdoors in middle of the day
- Vaccinated children had more chronic diseases - Sept 2018
- Researchers polled the parents of over 650 homeschooled children, aged either 6 or 12
| Chronic Illness Diagnosis | % Vaccinated | % Unvaccinated |
| Children Diagnosed Allergic Rhinitis | 10.4% | 0.4% |
| Other allergies | 22.2% | 6.9% |
Childhood Food allergies increased 4.8 X recently to 1 in 4.5
Chicago Biomedical Consortium Sept 2018
$4,184 = Annual cost to manage one child’s food allergy