Incidence and prevalence are terms commonly used in describing disease epidemiology. Incidence is newly diagnosed cases, which can be expressed as new cases per year per million people. Prevalence is the number of cases alive, expressible as existing cases per million people during a period of time.<unk>  is a common food allergy, with prevalence estimates in the range of 0.1-0.2% of the population, and confirmed as high as 0.8-0.9% in the Middle East and other countries where<unk>  seeds are used in traditional foods. Reporting of<unk>  seed allergy has increased over recent decades, either a true increase due to exposure from more foods or an increase in awareness. Self-reported allergy prevalence is always higher than food-challenge confirmed allergy. One review of US data reported 0.49% for the former and 0.23% for the latter.
Sesame allergy
Tree nut allergy
Sweat allergy
Nickel allergy
Peanut allergy
Corn allergy
Insect sting allergy
Rice allergy