The Rise in Allergies for Vox

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An allergy is like a false alarm in the immune system. It can range widely from things like rashes and hives all the way up to anaphylactic shock. The body has this very delicate task of trying to sort what is part of you andWhat is not part of you. And that's where we see allergies arise. They start overreacting or treating something as harmful that is otherwise harmless.

In the past few decades, the rate of food allergies in both children and adults has dramatically increased. What’s causing this rise, and what can we do about it?

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