Abstract
Food allergy prevalence has increased in recent years. Currently, it is described to be present in 7% of children and 5% of adults.
The spectrum of most frequent allergens has changed and widened, symptoms are becoming more severe. There are significant geographical differences in the incidence of food allergy, types of senzitization and symptoms.
Accordingly, the most common causes of food anaphylaxis are different in respective regions. No recent relevant epidemiological data on occurence of food allergy in Czech Republic are available.
DAFALL registry (Database of Food Allergies) has been founded on iniciative of Immuno-flow, s.r.o., to collect data from patients with newly diagnosed food allergy. In this report we present results from 275 patients enrolled into the registry during the first six months of its existence.