{"id":5828,"date":"2011-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2011-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:00:00","slug":"food-allergies-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/food-allergies-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Children with Food Allergies: Twice as Many as We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I began writing for AchooAllergy.com, I had little involvement with allergies. I don't typically suffer from allergies myself (although I do have allergies when pregnant<\/a>) and no one in my family has any food allergies.<\/p>\n

I wasn't writing about allergies for long before I began to realize how acutely quality of life is affected for those with allergies. What hit me hardest was that people with certain allergies, like food allergies, can actually die<\/i> from the condition. <\/p>\n

This realization, coming as it did in my late 20's and only because I was in a sense forced to engage with the information, is I think typical of many Americans' lack of knowledge about allergies in general and food allergies specifically. <\/p>\n

Of course I knew that food allergies like peanut allergies or milk allergies could be life-threatening, but the possibility seemed remote. However, with the number of food allergic children on the rise, the prevalence of such reactions is much less remote than it was <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I began writing for AchooAllergy.com, I had little involvement with allergies. I don't typically suffer from allergies myself (although I do have allergies when pregnant) and no one in my family has any food allergies. I wasn't writing about… <\/p>\n