Allergic to Almost Everything

When I think I have it bad with my peanut allergy, I only need to think of Tyler Savage, a 12-year-old British boy who I read an article about today in the Evening Standard. Apparently he can eat only chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples; everything else makes him spew violently from one or more orifices. The minerals and vitamins he doesn’t get from his five foods are pumped directly into his stomach by tube. This news coincides with the fact that more and more children are developing food allergies; the public is better educated about such maladies so more are being reported, but other than that, there are only guesses as to why so many people these days are allergic.