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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/suffer-phantom-food-allergies-journal-american-medical-association/story?id=10626826
The reason I did not put this in the media section is that it is not about EMS per se.
The unnamed "government study" reveals that many, many people believing they are allergic to foods are actually not due to false positives and failure to follow up with scratch testing, and to follow up as the patients mature. Also, poor communication and understanding between the pt and the MD causes confusion between intolerance (e.g., lactose intolerance, yielding abdominal highjinks like gas and diarreah), and a milk allergy (usually to the protein, causing an immune-mediated physiologic response or medical emergency).
HOWEVER, as closely as this falls to my observation, they do not name the study, and the Dr Karen Boyle they interview seems to be a urologist, not a specialist in the pertinent field.
In my experience, people with food allergies (I have known a few genuine ones) are not healthy, and do not tend to advertise their troubles to the world as some intolerant or Munchausenian ones do.
Come on, ABC, give us some rigor!! Sheesh...<_<
PS: want rigor? Read this:
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/161/1/15
As of 2001, about 100 food mediated anaphylaxis deaths annually.
The reason I did not put this in the media section is that it is not about EMS per se.
The unnamed "government study" reveals that many, many people believing they are allergic to foods are actually not due to false positives and failure to follow up with scratch testing, and to follow up as the patients mature. Also, poor communication and understanding between the pt and the MD causes confusion between intolerance (e.g., lactose intolerance, yielding abdominal highjinks like gas and diarreah), and a milk allergy (usually to the protein, causing an immune-mediated physiologic response or medical emergency).
HOWEVER, as closely as this falls to my observation, they do not name the study, and the Dr Karen Boyle they interview seems to be a urologist, not a specialist in the pertinent field.
In my experience, people with food allergies (I have known a few genuine ones) are not healthy, and do not tend to advertise their troubles to the world as some intolerant or Munchausenian ones do.
Come on, ABC, give us some rigor!! Sheesh...<_<
PS: want rigor? Read this:
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/161/1/15
As of 2001, about 100 food mediated anaphylaxis deaths annually.
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