Skin injury may bring on food allergies

There’s a mysterious connection between our skin and our guts, specifically when it comes to food allergies. For reasons scientists don’t fully understand, chronic skin conditions such as eczema are linked to food allergies; while the national prevalence of childhood food allergies is only around 8%, that prevalence rises to 30% in children with eczema. Researchers have discovered that in some cases, eczema can precede food allergies.