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Article: Food Allergy.
- Article from:
- Emergency Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- February 21, 2005
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Food Allergy
Author: Jonathan Glauser, MD, FACEP, Associate Chair, Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Faculty, Residency Program in Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH.
Peer Reviewers: J. Stephan Stapczynski, MD, Chair, Emergency Medicine Department, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ; and Stephen Crabtree, DO, FACEP, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta.
Recent epidemiologic studies indicate that nearly 4% of Americans are afflicted with food allergies. This includes from 5-8% of children younger than 4 years of age.sup.1 and 1-2% of ...