‘Perfect storm’: Doctors warn of alarming rise in adult-onset food allergies

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More adults are suddenly developingallergic reactionslater in life — and experts aren’t sure why.

Nearly 50% of adults developed at least one food allergy in adulthood, according to a 2019 investigation published in JAMA.

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“That is not fully understood at all or recognized … we don’t know why they’re starting at certain points,” she said.

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FAF hosted a forum last week inWashington, D.C., attended by HHS Secretary Robert F.Kennedy, FDA Chief Martin Makary and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya.

Woman grocery shopping looking at food label

Nearly 50% of adults develop food allergies later in life, studies have shown.(iStock)

Health officials and researchers are investigating whether allergies may be caused bygut health microbes.

types of bacteria, which normally live in balance, according to Makary.

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“But when it’s altered by the modern-day diet and by antibiotics and other exposures … that disequilibrium can cause inflammation [and]health problems, and it may be implicated in food allergies,” he said.

Ilana Golant, FAF founder, interviews Secretary Robert F. Kennedy in Washington, DC.

Ilana Golant, FAF founder and CEO (left), chats with HHS Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr.in Washington, D.C., at the Food Allergy Fund Forum.(Ashley J.

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Golant shared that there seems to be a “critical inflection point,” as some foods trigger adultsmore than children.

“Seafood shellfish [and] tree nuts seem to be proliferating among adults,” she noted.

top allergenin adults, according to a 2018 survey of over 40,000 people that was published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Golant said she luckily knew about allergies when she had her first anaphylactic reaction.

Person with an allergic reaction.

“If I didn’t know about food allergies, I would have thought I was having a heart attack,” said the founder of the Food and Allergy Fund.(iStock)

“If I didn’t know about food allergies, I would have thought I was having a heart attack,” she said.“Genetics can’t change so quickly.In a generation,food allergies have skyrocketed.”

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Approximately one in 10 adults are affected by food allergies, according to FAF.

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“It’s very much the perfect storm of a variety ofenvironmental triggers,” Golant added.“We still don’t know which ones and … if there is one primary [trigger], but my guess is that more likely, it is a perfect storm.”

Ashley J. 

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