Deaths caused by allergic reaction

You asked

I would like to request the number of deaths caused by allergic reactions to food based allergens in the UK, on an annual basis.

We said

Thank you for your request.

We publish mortality statistics for England and Wales.

Underlying cause of death is coded using the version 10 of the International classification of diseases (ICD-10).

Deaths where the underlying cause is assigned to an external cause (ICD-10 Chapter XX, U50.9 to Y89) are also assigned at least one nature of injury code (Chapter XIX, S00 to T98) or a post-procedural code not within Chapter XIX. This means it is possible to have more than one nature of injury code for a single death. More information is available in the user guide to mortality statistics:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/methodologies/userguidetomortalitystatisticsjuly2017

Deaths caused by an allergic reaction to food based allergens would be assigned the underlying cause of X58 (Exposure to other specified factors) along with one of the following nature of injury codes:

T78.0 - Anaphylactic shock due to adverse food reaction

T78.1 - Other adverse food reactions, not elsewhere classified

Deaths by underlying cause are available from our explorable dataset:

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/select/getdatasetbytheme.asp?theme=73

Deaths by injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (nature of injury), by sex and age-group are available in table 6 of our deaths registered in England and Wales (series DR):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdrreferencetables

Mortality statistics for Northern Ireland are available from:

https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/births-deaths-and-marriages/deaths

Mortality statistics for Scotland are available from:

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/deaths

Other special extracts and tabulations of deaths data for England and Wales are available (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to:

Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire
PO15 5RR
Tel: +44 (0)1329 444 110
E-mail: vsob@ons.gov.uk