Food Allergy

Schools Accommodating Children with Food Allergies

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 27th, 2000

Researchers at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), held in San Diego, California, released results from a phone survey taken in the Baltimore, Maryland, area that describes schools' reactions to food-allergic students' accidental ingestions.

The survey, conducted by Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, and colleagues at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Medical schools, included the parents of 113 children with food allergies, and concluded that because the precautions in place aren't failsafe, in many schools, a plan for emergency needs to be more clearly defined.

Sixty of those children had...

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