Table 1.
Symptoms and foods (n/%) related to food allergy reported by parents (% is out of the number of foods or symptoms reported by each group).
| Foods | Parental diagnosis (n = 71) |
Medical diagnosis (n = 186) | Symptoms | Parental diagnosis (n = 152) |
Medical diagnosis (n = 543) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | 16 (22.5) | 17 (9.1) | Runny/itchy/congested nose | 15 (9.9) | 79 (14.5) |
| Other nuts | 11 (15.5) | 17 (9.1) | Coughing/sneezing | 6 (3.9) | 28 (5.2) |
| Cow's milk | 12 (16.9) | 49 (26.3) | Itchy skin | 19 (12.5) | 37 (6.8) |
| Eggs | 11 (15.5) | 27 (14.5) | Skin rash/eczema/scabby skin | 45 (29.6) | 108 (19.9) |
| Fish | 4 (5.6) | 7 (3.8) | Dry skin | 13 (8.6) | 35 (6.4) |
| Shellfish | 2 (2.8) | 5 (2.7) | Diarrhoea | 5 (3.3) | 38 (7.0) |
| Soya/wheat | 10 (14.1) | 31 (16.7) | Vomiting | 6 (3.9) | 37 (6.8) |
| Fruit | 2 (2.8) | 20 (10.8) | Swelling of face/tongue | 4 (2.6) | 40 (7.4) |
| Vegetables | 2 (2.8) | 10 (5.4) | Bloated stomach | 10 (6.6) | 33 (6.1) |
| Sesame | 0 | 3 (1.6) | Abdominal pain | 11 (7.2) | 42 (7.7) |
| Chocolate | 1 (1.4) | 0 | Wheezing/breathlessness/ asthma/tight chest | 18 (11.8) | 66 (12.2) |