The bad news about children's food allergies continues to mount.
A new study from Johns Hopkins Children's Center found that milk and egg allergies today are more persistent than previously believed. Previous research had indicated that 75% of children with milk allergy outgrew the allergy by age 3, but the Hopkins study found that about 80% of the children still had the milk or egg allergy at age 4. At age 16, still roughly a third had not outgrown their allergies.
Said Robert Wood, M.D., the head of allergy and immunology at Hopkins:

"The bad news is that the prognosis for a children with milk or egg allergy appears to be worse than it was 20 years ago...Not only do more kids have allergies, but fewer of them outgrow their allergies, and those who do, do so later than before."

Will this stop irresponsible and uninformed articles like Joel Stein's "Nut Allergies: A Yuppie Invention"?

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