date:Dec 24, 2018
The heated debates that would emerge during the post-war period about the prevalence of food allergy distracted researchers from investigating the root causes of the condition.
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In the early 1980s, food allergy became a marginalised topic within medicine. Then, a new phenomenon emerged that forced doctors to take it seriously: Peanut allergy.
In 1988, an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal described the case of a 24-year-old woman who died after eating a biscui