In China, for example, skin-prick testing found that large percentages of one rural population were sensitive to shellfish (16.7 percent) and peanuts (12.3 percent). Yet actual food allergies in that population, as diagnosed by physicians, were all but unheard of: less than 1 percent.
In the United States, by contrast, 12 million people (4 percent of the population) suffer from food allergies, according to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, a nonprofit information and advocacy group.
Does anyone know the stats for Indians?
What safety/precautionary/medical steps do you take at your hotel/outlet to manage food allergies?
Does your hotel/restaurant train staff on managing such emergencies?
Here is another side to the allergy story.
from sundaytimes| That’s no food allergy, just bad manners
It claims a lot of people just claim allergies when there arent any!
Do you know anyone?
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