Friday, May 18, 2012

Food Allergy Facts – Awareness Week, Day 6

Each day during food allergy awareness week I am sharing some facts based on the most recent data and research. Here are today’s facts:

It can take as little as 6 minutes for the entire body to shut down during anaphylaxis. Only a tiny amount of protein is required to cause anaphylaxis.

Severe allergies (and any anaphylactic reactions to common foods will prevent a candidate from joining the military. (military.com)

Please share these facts with your audiences.

2 comments:

Hank said...

Good thing that severe food allergies were a rarity in the late 1930s and 1940s because if they were as prevalent as they are now there would not be enough healthy men to fight and we would be the US of Germany. In one lifetime we have gone from the Greatest to the Wimpiest Generation.

Smart said...

It can take as little as 6 minutes for the entire body to shut down during anaphylaxis. Only a tiny amount of protein is required to cause anaphylaxis. see that