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Home / / New Study Suggests Black Children More Likely To Have Food Allergies

New Study Suggests Black Children More Likely To Have Food Allergies

father coloring with son and daughter(BlackDoctor.org) — Pediatricians at Northwestern University have shed new light on why some children develop sensitivities to foods such as eggs, peanuts and milk. Their reason? Race and ancestry.

The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, used a multi-ethnic database of 1,104 children to measure antibodies to egg white, cow’s milk, peanut, soy, shrimp, walnut, wheat and cod.

The overall findings reveal that black children are twice as likely to have an immune response to certain foods, especially peanuts, eggs and milk. About 38 percent of black children in the study had food sensitives compared to 22 percent for the white children who participated.

To read the complete article, visit Huffington Post Black Voices here.

September 7, 2011 by Derrick Lane

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