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PEOPLE THINK THAT if they make it to adulthood without being diagnosed with an allergy, then they don’t have one.
But new research from the US shows that almost half of all adults who have a food allergy reported it manifesting itself during adulthood.
“Food allergies are often seen as a condition that begins in childhood, so the idea that 45% of adults with food allergies develop them in adulthood is surprising,” says Ruchi Gupta, a member and lead author of the study.
We also saw that, as with children, the incidence of food allergies in adults is rising across all ethnic groups.
The most common food allergy among adults in the US is shellfish, affecting an estimated 3.6%. That’s a 44% increase from the 2.5% prevalence rate published in an influential 2004 study.
Similarly, these new data suggest that adult tree nut allergy prevalence has risen to 1.8% from a 2008 estimate of 0.5% – an increase of 260%.
“Our research also found that, among black, Asian and Hispanic adults, the risk of developing a food allergy to certain foods is higher than for whites, specifically for shellfish and peanuts,” says food allergy researcher Christopher Warren, PhD candidate and study co-author.
For example, Asian adults were 2.1 times more likely to report a shellfish allergy than white adults, and Hispanic adults reported a peanut allergy at 2.3 times the frequency of white adults.
Because many adults believe food allergies mostly affect children, they may not think to get tested. It is important to see an allergist for testing and diagnosis if you are having a reaction to a food and suspect a food allergy.”
The study, which was presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting, suggests that people may not recognise that they have a food allergy and believe their reaction is a food intolerance.
If you’re concerned that you may have a food allergy, you can get assessed by an allergists, or learn more on the HSE’s website here.
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That can’t be right? Only 620 Irish millionaires? That tells me that the vast majority of millionaires are under the radar and therefore paying less than 30% income tax if any!
Yep, just 620 apparently. It was over 1,000 in around 2007/2008 but has dropped dramatically cos of the recession. My possibly dodgy attempt at early-morning maths tells me that that means 0.1% of the Irish population is a millionaire.
Christine,according to this there was 20,400 Irish millionaires in 2007?
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/number-of-irish-millionaires-soars-2230552.html
Yeah, I’d be a tad wary of that figure because it comes from a private company. The 620 figure came from Michael Noonan so it’s Department of Finance figures for the number of millionaires in Ireland which is more reliable.
Lol department of finance having reliable figures, good one
Christine you’ll have to give your self comment of the week for the Noonan & Dept of finance gag!! Classic
lol Stephen Doyle; they’ve probably lost 3.6 of them ;-)
Noonan reliable and figures are not three words that go together in any sentance.
The man tells jokes and like most jokes he makes them up to suit himself.
Des bishop had more chance of getting finance figures right than that clown noonan. Any figures noonan give are all from the Cardiff school of accounting and should be treated as the nonsense they are
I am a billionaire and don’t pay any taxes at all ,pathetic little millionaires , bloody peasants were stealing from my bins again last night ,i let the hounds loose it was great sport to see them running after the peasants up my mile long drive, great exercise for them.
#EXPLOSIVES see the gardai are investing in new explosives, makes a change from investigating i suppose
Very glad that over two hundred Divers have/are travelling to Cork to help recovery of the two remaining fishermen. I hope it works, to give those families some closure on this dreadful tragedy.
#MILLIONAIRES A small thing but… if 42 percent of millionaires pay more than 30 percent tax, then 58 percent pay less than 30 percent tax. So it’s not “Almost half of Ireland’s millionaires pay less than 30 per cent income tax” it’s more than half of Ireland’s millionaires…
There’s a big difference between millionaires in terms of income earned, and millionaires in terms of property owned/inherited. Could this explain the difference?
Ah I think you have a point there Martin. I imagine that the national lottery alone, create at a guess, 50ish millionaires a year and that’s tax free..
I just read that and thought it should be the cover of The Journal…so brillian!!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=219635911459662&set=a.142394652517122.31257.142390589184195&type=1&theater
How many of those 600 plus millionaires actually reside full time in Ireland?
Re the contraband found in prisons can someone tell me why they dont just bring in screening between visitors and prisoners?
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