How Food Allergies Affects Children

By Roger Calfsman

In the past, food allergies weren't nearly as plentiful as they are today. Today, many children and adults have very serious food allergies. Some have one food allergy and others have many. People have allergies to very specific items, like strawberries, as well as broad items, like gluten. Sadly, there are numerous food allergies that are dangerous and even probably lethal to youngsters. Here are some ways that kids are affected by their food allergies.

At School

Kids with food allergies are affected very much so in their colleges. If a kid has a food allergy to peanuts, this can be a life threatening condition. Years back, the kid was simply made to cope with this on his or her own. Because such food allergies have been growing in power in the latest years, some faculties have made the extreme and very hard effort to become completely peanut free schools.

These faculties do not sell items that contain peanuts, they do not make peanut items in their cafeteria, and they don't allow other scholars to bring in food items that contain peanuts. While this could appear extraordinary and harsh to non allergic scholars, scholars with a food allergy to peanuts may be rubbed out by the air born particles from a peanut product.

Some faculties , however , have not gotten completely on board with a peanut free environment. These colleges do often try to help the scholar with a food allergy though. These schools allow for a peanut free table in the lunchroom. This is a table where only kids who have peanut free lunches can sit.

While this can seem to be a great idea and a great compromise, it is just isolating a child with a food allergy from the remainder of the class. Some have disagreed that this goes against the concept of least restrictive environment as laid down by current instructional laws. A child with a food allergy should not have to be isolated from the rest of the class and their pals during dinner time.

At Home

If you have a kid with a food allergy, you try to do anything you can to avoid a food allergy symptom. Food allergy symptoms can include vomiting, diarrhea, swelling, hives, and even anaphylactic shock and death.

The home front is also a battlefield for child food allergies in that you have to be really diligent in keeping your child safe from poisoned foods. In some examples, it becomes mandatory for the whole family to chop the allergen out from their diet.

A child faces a continuous battle when diagnosed as having an acute food allergy like peanuts or gluten. Do your part to become educated and aware. - 17274

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