date:Nov 27, 2018
bout 1.6 million kids; milk at 1.9%, affecting about 1.4 million children; shellfish at 1.3%, affecting about 1 million children; and tree nut (1.2%), affecting about 900,000 kids.
Among those children, 42.3% had severe food allergies, and 39.9% reported multiple allergies. About 19% of those kids had to visit an emergency room in the previous year, and 42% reported at least 1 lifetime food allergy-related emergency room visit. About 40% of the kids had a current epinephrine auto injector pres