More and more children are being identified as having food and skin allergies, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show, and schools are still struggling to figure out the best way to deal with them.
The CDC said this week that in children, the prevalence of food allergies rose from 3.4 percent in 1997 through 1999 to 5.1 percent in 2009 through 2011—in other words, about one in 20 kids have a food allergy now, a 50 percent increase from about a decade ago.
via More Food, Skin Allergies Found in Children; Schools Still Finding Way.