Growing up in Australia cant remember anyone with food allergies, my kids never had them either, used to hear of the occassional kid who was allergic to peanuts.
Now 15,000 Australian kids born every year will develop food allergy in the first few years of life.
Surely Mr Rudd this problem should be given your utmost attention, not enough votes involved I guess!
Actually Australias PM is Kevin Rudd, whether its a world problem or not, the Australian government should be setting money aside for the problem instead of wasting it on illegal immigrants
There are different levels to food allergies. There may not be more people that get allergies, just more people are recognized as having allergies or survive having allergies.
Typically in the past someone who got the hives or diarrhea from eating something just avoided that food and it was never diagnosed as a real allergy.
Typically in the past someone who’s throat closed up from eating a peanut or something died pretty quickly and didn’t add to the number of those then suffering from an allergy.
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The problem is thought to be that people are too clean nowadays. Children are not exposed to enough germs so their immune system becomes hypersensitive.
I also think vaccines play a part. I know i’ll probably get thumbed down for saying that.
You’ll notice that allergies are quite rare in developing countries.
Nothing Kevin Rudd can do, i don’t know why you’re trying to bring him into it. This is a western worldwide problem.
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There are different levels to food allergies. There may not be more people that get allergies, just more people are recognized as having allergies or survive having allergies.
Typically in the past someone who got the hives or diarrhea from eating something just avoided that food and it was never diagnosed as a real allergy.
Typically in the past someone who’s throat closed up from eating a peanut or something died pretty quickly and didn’t add to the number of those then suffering from an allergy.
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The government does enough bringing children up when it is the parents who should be doing it , have you noticed there is more in the budget for morning breakfast to be given to children at the school instead of eating breakfast at home before going to school, our taxes pay for this . The subject about food allergy in the first few years of life, I agree it is more prevalent than years ago and it is up to local doctor to educate parents
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