A Few Allergy Facts

Fortune magazine (7/26/10) had some great allergy data that I thought I would capture here:

• 37M allergy sufferers in the US in 2010 (vs. 19M in 1995)
• $5.4B in spending on allergy drugs in 2009
• 6M workdays missed in 2010 due to allergies
• 16M allergy visits to the physician in 2010
• $17.5B in medical expenditures in 2010 (~$473 per allergy sufferer per year)

I also heard on the radio this morning in St. Louis that now that we passed a no smoking ban we’ve dropped from the worse allergy city to #6.