Food Allergies On the Rise Throughout the past fifteen years the amount of people effected by food allergies has concerningly increased. In a research release in 2013 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 1997 and 2011 there has been a fifty percent increase in food allergies among children under the age of eighteen. Every three minutes a food allergy reaction sends someone to the ER. Why we are not worried? Research estimates up to 15 millions of Americans have food allergies. A study done by the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology in 2012 founded that pesticides containing dichlorophenol used primarily as an intermediate in the preparation of the herbicide may the one to blame (ACAAI). I asked twenty-one
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But why are some ingredients like dichlorophenol not been investigated in a deeper level? Why is the EPA still allowing farmers to use this product after finding a possible link to the increase in food allergies? I do not get it. Dichlorophenol is Chlorinated phenol. They are toxic compounds. But the toxic property accounts for many of their uses. They are used as bactericides, fungicides, and preservatives. Between the years 1980-1998 the EPA and CDC were notified about a case of a man death due to exposure to 2,4-DCP dichlorophenol, when the CDC and EPA started the investigation they discovered that he was not the first one to …show more content…
“Cow’s milk, egg and soy allergies typically begin in childhood and eventually may be outgrown. In the past, most children outgrew these allergies by school age. A recent study, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, indicated that children are taking longer to outgrow milk and egg allergies. Fortunately, the majority are allergy-free by age 16” (Facts and Statistics). Why is our body having trouble fighting allergies? Parents of children with food allergies always have to be extra cautious in what their babies are eating, making sure people around the children know to what they are allergic. Parents of children with one or more life threatening allergies like Type one (anaphylactic hypersensitivity) like me, fear that if the child is not with them they may be expose to something with the potential to kill
But why are some ingredients like dichlorophenol not been investigated in a deeper level? Why is the EPA still allowing farmers to use this product after finding a possible link to the increase in food allergies? I do not get it. Dichlorophenol is Chlorinated phenol. They are toxic compounds. But the toxic property accounts for many of their uses. They are used as bactericides, fungicides, and preservatives. Between the years 1980-1998 the EPA and CDC were notified about a case of a man death due to exposure to 2,4-DCP dichlorophenol, when the CDC and EPA started the investigation they discovered that he was not the first one to …show more content…
“Cow’s milk, egg and soy allergies typically begin in childhood and eventually may be outgrown. In the past, most children outgrew these allergies by school age. A recent study, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, indicated that children are taking longer to outgrow milk and egg allergies. Fortunately, the majority are allergy-free by age 16” (Facts and Statistics). Why is our body having trouble fighting allergies? Parents of children with food allergies always have to be extra cautious in what their babies are eating, making sure people around the children know to what they are allergic. Parents of children with one or more life threatening allergies like Type one (anaphylactic hypersensitivity) like me, fear that if the child is not with them they may be expose to something with the potential to kill