2024-08-07 10:14:57
Food allergies: the growth due to over-antibiotics and pesticides but also to the use of ultra-processed foods
They grow up food allergy in Italy, with an increase of 34% in 10 years who arrived + 120.8% for children under 3 years. The main ‘offenders’ are milk (55%), eggs (33%) and dried fruit (24%). A problem that is increasing in children all over the world but for the first time an all-Italian study, carried out in the Campania region, paints a cultural picture of the phenomenon in the last 10 years in our country. The results of the study Epipha (Epidemiology of Pediatric Italian Food Allergy), promoted dalla Italian Society of Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology and Pediatric Nutrition (Sigenp) and coordinated by Roberto Berni Canaanis a professor of pediatricsUniversity of Naples Federico IIwas published in the latest issue of the ‘Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Global’, the official organ of the American College of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
“There is increasing evidence that environmental factors linked to the overuse of antibiotics and ultra-processed foods may be responsible for the increase in the prevalence and severity of allergies and many other chronic diseases. of children,” highlights. Claudio RomanoExhaustion Sigenp. The data is worrying: “Our study, carried out from 2009 to 2021 in all the regions of Campania – the backgrounds Bernie Kanani – has been created thanks to the collaboration of 10 family paediatrics specialists in the region, 2 for each region. By monitoring a sample of 105,151 children aged between 0 and 14 years for ten years (2009-2021), a progressive increase in the prevalence of allergies in childhood was observed, with a significant increase in children under 3 years.
“One in 4 children, among those who have developed a food allergy – continues the expert – has shown a history of anaphylactic shock, which confirms the increasing trend not only in the prevalence but also in the severity of things of childhood allergies in our country, in line with the previous data collected by the same research group through the database request of the Ministry of Health where we found a 400% increase in cases. of emergency room visits in Italy for food-induced anaphylaxis in the last decade”.
The results obtained with the study in Campania, second Roberto Berni Canani, reflects the reality of other Italian regions. “Adding these results to the entire Italian population for a total of 7,636,545 children and adolescents up to 14 years of age, we estimate that there are currently 92,000 children in Italy affected by food allergy.”
At the base of the dramatic increase in this phenomenon “there are many reasons, from the prescription of more antibiotics and acid inhibitor drugs, to the use of disinfectants and antibiotics. But the role of great importance in encouraging the appearance of allergies is given by the continuous and unstoppable increase in ultra-foods in childhood starting from the first year of life these ultra-foods, the so-called ‘junk food’ which is in Italy, as well as in other countries. like the United States or ‘Australia, is consumed more and more by children, even the youngest, who are able to change the immune system and cause the beginnings of allergies”, concluded Berni Canani.
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