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Do you suffer with sneezing, itching, intermittent rashes, persistent cough or congested nose and have a family history of asthma, hay fever or eczema? Then you probably do have an allergy. Find out more…

Dr Adrian Morris

Dr. Adrian Morris

Adult and Children’s Allergy Consultant with postgraduate diplomas in Allergy, Dermatology, Family Practice and Paediatrics, consulting from clinics in Central London, Guildford and Farnham.
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Did you Know?

The incidence of allergies is increasing at an alarming rate:

  • One in three Britons has an allergy.
  • A child goes to hospital with asthma every 19 minutes.
  • 40,000 children born each year have a nut allergy.
  • Hospital admissions for anaphylaxis have risen fivefold since 1990.
  • Between 1990 and 2003, 49,000 people were admitted to hospital with severe allergic reactions.
  • There are 15 million hayfever sufferers in UK.
  • There are 20 confirmed cases of Aquagenic Urticaria (severe allergy to water) in the UK.
  • There are 100 confirmed cases of Human Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity (allergy to sperm).
  • Six foods account for 90% of childhood food allergic reactions (nuts, eggs, milk, fish, wheat and soy)
  • An estimated 10% of people in the UK suffer from some degree of Polymorphic Light Eruption (allergy to the sun

Source:
Oxford University Press 2009

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