What Is A Food Allergy And How Common Is It?

Wesley Burks, M.D., Chief, Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center
February 27, 2008

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Question: What is a food allergy and how common is it?

Wesley Burks, M.D., Duke University Medical Center

Answer: Food allergy's an abnormal response of the immune system. It typically occurs in the first several years of life. We have about eight million children in the United States that have food allergy and about four million adults.

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