For eczema and other skin allergies, it's 1 in 8 children, an increase of 69 percent.

NPR: Study: Food, Skin Allergies Increasing In Children

At age four, they were also given a skin-prick test to see if they had any of the most common allergies, including dust mite, animal fur, pollen, milk, eggs or peanuts.

BBC: Doctors could predict which children are at risk of asthma

It is my belief that nut allergy and most food allergies are often a result of the body becoming sensitised to them through the skin.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Rise in multiple allergy patients

Another 18% were admitted for food allergies, with the remaining 17% admitted for angio-oedema - deep swelling underneath the skin, often around the eyes and lips, and sometimes on hands and feet.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Severe allergies 'rising sharply'