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If you’ve ever suffered from allergies this documentary will be a valuable ten minutes to you. Whether it be seasonal allergies like hay fever, food allergies like peanuts or even skin rashes, dealing with an allergy can be irritating and for some deadly. Over the last few decades many allergies have increased by over 500%, but why?

This documentary will explore the alarming growing epidemic of allergies across the western world. To date there are approximately 1.2 billion allergy sufferers around the globe. Doctors worry as the allergies they treat their patients for are becoming more severe.

Statistics show that 50 years ago a small number of people were affected by allergies, about one in 30. Fast forward to present day and the numbers make me itch with worry. In Britain the amount of allergy sufferers has grown to an unnerving one in three.

So what does it mean and what will be done to change it? Horizon ventures around the world in search of answers.  From the most remote islands to the centre of the UK, they speak with experts and allergy sufferers. Scientists who have spent their lives exploring the mysterious world of allergies.

With worrisome statistics like this one can only wonder, are we becoming allergic to our world?

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