The risk of death from food allergies is often exaggerated. Fatal anaphylaxis is actually extremely rare. Even in people with severe allergies.
Meanwhile the treatments are not 100% guaranteed to work, and they do have significant risks of their own, plus costs both monetary and non. So it's completely reasonable even for people with severe allergies to choose to not be treated. But I agree that more people should be made aware of the options.
> Fatal anaphylaxis is actually extremely rare. Even in people with severe allergies.
If your only metrics is dead people, perhaps. If we look at people ending up in ER in a severe state, there would be a lot more (anecdotally that's how many of us have discovered allergies, from asking other parents dealing with it)
> Meanwhile the treatments are not 100% guaranteed to work, and they do have significant risks of their own, plus costs both monetary and non.
Thanks, I assume there's significant research behind them, so I'd see how a doctor could want to wait a bit more advancement before mentionning it to their patients.
Meanwhile the treatments are not 100% guaranteed to work, and they do have significant risks of their own, plus costs both monetary and non. So it's completely reasonable even for people with severe allergies to choose to not be treated. But I agree that more people should be made aware of the options.