It's estimated that in the United States alone, 80 to 100 million people have allergies. This is close to a third of the population, and these allergies come from many places, including inside the ...

Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies, affecting between 1% and 2% of people living in the West. And, for many years, their prevalence has been rising. But a recent study out of the ...

A food allergy is an abnormal immune system response to a harmless food protein. Almost any food may cause an allergic reaction. The top eight most common food allergies are tree nuts, peanuts, milk, ...

A retrospective study of almost 200 foods that caused a possible food allergy and 45 foods that caused a probable food allergy in an outpatient allergy clinic yielded new insight on triggers beyond ...

Anecdotal and survey evidence suggests that adult-onset food allergies may be increasing. “We don’t talk about it enough, but adult food allergy is real,” Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, told Medscape Medical ...

Around one in seven cases of life-threatening allergic reactions seem to be caused by foods not typically labelled as potential allergens on a product’s packaging, prompting researchers to argue ...

In little moments like when sipping coffee or licking an ice cream cone, it doesn't seem like your body is pulling off a biological miracle. But it is. That cookie is not you—yet when you put it in ...

A tick bite can do more than cause irritation; for some people, it can lead to a lifelong allergy that changes the way they ...

Food allergies in children are on the rise, but the risk can be slashed in one easy step, according to new research. It's a shock in the fight against anaphylaxis. Affecting 1 in 13 children in the US ...