The Top 8 Technologies Combating Food Allergy

Every three minutes, a food allergy reaction sends someone to the emergency room in the US. Not only the number of people suffering from food allergies but also the complexity and severity of conditions are rising globally. Food scanners or portable devices could tell you the exact ingredients of the food on your plate; while apps and wearables help you deal with the effects of allergens. Here, I listed the best technologies combating food allergy! Food allergy on the rise Food allergy has been referred to as the second wave of the allergy epidemic, asthma being the first. Researchers estimate that up to 15 million Americans have food allergies, including 5.9 million children under age 18. That’s 1 in 13 children or roughly two in every classroom. Moreover, childhood hospitalizations for food allergy tripled between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s. According to estimates by Chinese doctors, 10 million or about 10 percent of Chinese children aged 0-6 suffer from various degrees of food allergies. In Japan, 7 percent of the population has to face a similar condition, while in Europe, the European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology estimated that food allergies embitter about 17 million Europeans’ lives, with 3.5 million of them less than 25 years of age. The tendency is also worrisome: the number of children with allergies has doubled in the last ten years. The prevalence of allergies in children varies from 1.7% in Greece to 4% in Italy and Spain, to over ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Food Portable Diagnostics applications apps digital digital health food allergy food scanner GC1 Personalized medicine technology wearables Source Type: blogs