Australians are worst food allergy hypochondriacs
May 24, 2008
Skin specialists have labeled Australians as the world’s worst allergy hypochondriacs, thinking that they have sensitivity to food when they do not. Statistics show more than one in 10 Aussie adults complain to suffer from some sort of food allergy, when only one to 2% has a true allergy to foods.
Professor Connie Katelaris, an allergy specialist at Sydney’s Campbelltown Hospital, said in a meeting of dermatologists that Australia had exacted top position on the chart of countries whose citizens thought they had a food allergy.
“What’s more, these imagined food allergies are far more likely to be reported by women than by men,” Prof Katelaris said.
She said there were many theories as to why adults keep on wrongly blaming the food for their rashes and skin reactions.
An individual here often feels that they have control over their symptoms if they blame food as stated by the specialist in the Sydney meeting.
Believing that symptoms have been caused by a food allergy means that there is an understandable cause and food allergy is a diagnosis favored by alternative practitioners, in spite of the lack of evidence showing that it is to be blamed.
Dr Stephen Shumack, of the Australasian College of Dermatologists, accepted that most rashes seen by dermatologists in Australia are not caused by food allergies but rather skin ailments such as eczema and psoriasis. “We would see many rashes a day in our practices and rarely see any related to food allergies,” Dr Shumack said.
While food allergy is dominant in children, the majority grows out of their allergies by adulthood and about 97% of those who had an allergy to dairy as children were no longer allergic compared to adults, while 2/3rd of children grew out of their egg allergy and 20% grew out of their allergy to peanuts, he added.
AAP
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