OUR VERY wonderful allergist, Dr Robert Boyle, has just released some new findings that should make reassuring reading for parents of children with diagnosed food allergy.
After collating data from 13 studies worldwide, he and his research team at Imperial College London have calculated that for children and young people with a food allergy aged 0-19, the chance of dying from anaphylaxis in any one year is 3.25 in a million.
To put that in context, in Europe the risk of being murdered is 11 in a million. Continue reading “The good news (with a little tiny ‘but’)”
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