With allergies on the increase across the population, new figures show children aged birth to four are twice as likely to be admitted with an allergy than people aged 60 and over.
Boys are more at risk than girls within the under fives age group. Emergencies make up 24 per cent of allergy-related hospital admissions of boys, as opposed to 12 per cent of admissions of girls.
Between March 2013 and February 2014, 58 girls and 96 boys under five were admitted to hospital with an allergy for every 100,000 children in the 0-4 age bracket.
The pan-age average for the time period was 38 allergy-related admissions per 100,000 people, according to hospital admission statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
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