Allergies could affect two French people in 2015
About 25% of the population is allergic to pollen in the spring, against 4% 40 years ago, the newspaper Le Monde. One French 2 could be affected in 2015, according to the Association of Allergology and Clinical Research asthmologie (Arca).
The main factors explaining this increase are technically had air pollution, lifestyle apartments with more confined, tobacco, mites, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (chemicals found in paints, furniture), etc..
Food allergies are also progressing. They receive 6% of children under 15 years and between 2% and 3% of the general population. Symptoms include: digestive disorders, skin (hives, angioedema, eczema), respiratory (rhinitis, asthma), to anaphylactic shock (which can cause death).
Explanatory factors may be “great food diversification and industrialization have increased the presence of additives,” according to the allergist Dominique Chateau Waquet, author of And if it was an allergy. Some also argue diversification too early infant feeding. “People live in an increasingly clean and disinfected. So, we no longer have parasites, it is a hypothesis,” ahead of his side Jean-Pol Dumur, allergist in Aix-en-Provence.