date:Aug 07, 2017
ess, the hospital admissions are still rising and their root cause is unclear.
An FSA spokesperson said: In the last decade, the cases of food allergies have doubled and the number of hospitalisations caused by severe allergic reactions has increased 7-fold (EAACI, 2015).
Based on hospital episode data there was a 76% increase in hospital admissions attributed to food allergies between 2005-05 and 2014-15. It is possible some of this is due to better data recording but there is no way of knowi