Middle-class children 'face twice the risk of nut allergy' than those from poor families | Mail Online

Middle-class children are twice as likely to have peanut allergy as those from poorer families, a study has found.

Researchers believe GPs may see more children with allergies from better-off families, although poorer children may be protected in some way from developing them.

Some experts also think that an excessively clean lifestyle linked to rising levels of affluence is driving the rise in allergies and asthma because it fails to wake up the immune system.

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