After having risen year on year in recent decades, the rates of eczema and hay fever seem to have stabilised, and may even be falling, suggests research published ahead of print in Thorax.But the rates of systemic allergic reactions, such as anaphylaxis and those related to food have soared, the data suggest.The research team carried out a time trends analysis on the rates of illness and death for allergic disorders, excluding asthma. [click link for full article]
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