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Asthma and Allergy Statistics

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  • Updated daily for Region 8, follow this link to charts of current pollen levels in our area
    If you suffer from allergies, you need accurate, reliable, timely information that allows you to consistently manage your symptoms and take control of your life! This local 4-day allergy forecast shows the upcoming airborne allergen conditions in your town. This is information that can help you maximize the quality of your life, and perhaps minimize visits to your physician or allergy specialist.

  • Allergy FAQs

  • You're probably all too familiar with the symptoms of allergies. If so, you're among the more than 50 million Americans that suffer from seasonal allergies. Get more information on what type of allergens affect you.
    You're probably all too familiar with the symptoms of allergies. If so, you're among the more than 50 million Americans that suffer from seasonal allergies. Get more information on what type of allergens affect you.

  • You're probably all too familiar with the symptoms of allergies. If so, you're among the more than 50 million Americans that suffer from seasonal allergies. Get more information on symptoms and learn what type of allergens affect you.

  • When it appears that respiratory illness symptoms are caused by an allergy, the patient should see a physician who understands the diagnosis and treatment of allergies.
    When it appears that respiratory illness symptoms are caused by an allergy, the patient should see a physician who understands the diagnosis and treatment of allergies.
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  • In 1994, the estimated number of people with self-reported asthma in the United States was 14.6 million. The estimate for 1998 has risen to 17 million.
  • Asthma was diagnosed more often than any other illness of 468,000 U.S. hospital admissions in 1993.
  • In the United States in 1994, asthma affected an estimated 4.8 million children (under age 18) out of an estimated 68 million children. Asthmatic youngsters under age 15 were hospitalized 159,000 times in 1993, and stayed 3.4 days on average.
  • Asthma is only slightly more prevalent in African-American children than in white children. African-American children with asthma, however, experience more severe disability and have more frequent hospitalizations than do white children.
  • Estimates from a skin test survey suggest that allergies affect more than 50 million people in the United States.
  • Allergy testing accounted for 1.4 million office visits to physicians in 1991.
  • Pollen allergy (hay fever or allergic rhinitis) affects an estimated 10% or 26 million Americans, not including those with asthma.
  • Allergic rhinitis is the reason for 9.2 million office visits to physicians yearly.
  • The estimated overall costs of allergic rhinitis in the United States in 1996 totalled $6 billion.
  • Chronic sinusitis affects nearly 35 million people in the United States.
  • Eight percent of children younger than 6 years old experience food intolerance(s).
  • A severe allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis occurs in 3.3 percent of the U.S. population as a result of insect stings. At least 40 deaths per year result from insect sting anaphylaxis.

(Information provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)