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Article: Peanut allergy found common and increasing.(Brief Article)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- September 7, 1996
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An allergic sensitivity to peanuts may afflict 1 in 100 preschoolers-and the number of people plagued by this allergy seems to be rising, new studies indicate.
Researchers at St. Mary's Hospital in Newport, on the Isle of Wight, studied nearly all of the children born in 1989 or 1990 on this island off England's south central coast. They gave allergy tests to 981 of the children at age 4, making a special effort to include those with any family history of allergy or a previous reaction to eating peanuts (which are legumes) or tree nuts (such as cashews).
While six of the children had previously experienced a rash or other allergic symptom to peanuts, ...