Could Your Food Allergies Really be Linked to Your Birthday?

A recent study in Finland found that babies conceived in late winter or early spring have a higher risk for food allergies. Researchers from Oulu University Hospital in Finland

found a higher incidence of positive results in food allergy tests among children born in October or November. It is believed to be because the babies' first three months of development occur in the spring, when the birch and alder pollen count is at its highest. Out of 6,000 children involved in the study, they found that those whose first trimester ended by April or may were three times more likely to have milk and egg allergies. You can read more about this study here.

I personally don't find much truth to any of this. How does that explain the increase in food allergies? Has there been that much of an increase in levels of pollen in the past 10 years? I feel the culprit still lies within our food supply and possibly the changes in the vaccines we give our children. Either way I still find the study intriguing.

I thought it would be interesting to set up a poll for my readers. In what month where either you (assuming you have food allergies) or your child with food allergies born?  Please take our poll in the upper right sidebar. 

Poll Results: According to our poll 28% of those readers with food allergies where born in November with March and August following close behind with 21%. Interestingly June had zero results.