ABSTRACT
Food related symptoms are an important cause of morbidity and occasionally mortality in the western world1 and is likely to be important in Asia in the coming decades. In most of the countries in the western world, there has been documented increase in the prevalence of allergies such as allergic rhinitis and asthma and there is some evidence that prevalence of food allergies may be increasing. Usually the increase in food allergies in the general population occur a couple of decades after the increase in asthma and allergic rhinitis. In India, there have been documented increases in the prevalence of asthma and allergic rhinitis since the last couple of decades and is likely to witness an epidemic of food allergy in the future.
