The average person understands the basic concept behind food allergies. They cause inflammation and swelling, often with rather comedic results. Food allergies also tend to crop up seemingly randomly, with someone growing up with an allergy to shrimp and suddenly finding out that it has somehow faded away with time. Food allergies can also have an effect on someone’s lifestyle, with multiple ones becoming a severe limitation on what foods a person is allowed to eat without being afraid.
However, most people see food allergies as a source of discomfort, often disregarding the fact that some of them can be quite lethal.
There are some common food allergies and some that are not so common, but all of them can be potentially lethal. There are numerous fatalities every year that are caused by fatal reactions to food-related allergies, with the death toll being 58% of all allergic people dying because of it. According to the most recent statistics released by the US government, an estimated 12 million US citizens have some sort of food allergy. The percentages on how many of those allergies are potentially lethal tends to differ, but roughly 150 to 200 people die...