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Update (March 29): The parents of the 6-year-old respond to this story. See “Comments” section below. On March 9, parents of children enrolled at Edgewater Public School near Daytona Beach, Florida, called the media and staged a protest, angry that an allergy-management plan implemented by the school board to keep a 6-year-old peanut-allergic girl safe [...]

Samantha Yaffe’s frank take on motherhood with allergies Is there anything more gut churning than thinking about your anaphylactic child sandwiched among 200 kids eating 200 snacks that may contain who-knows-what in a sprawling playground supervised by three adults? Well, hello recess. And there’s no getting around it, twice-a-day, every day, now that Lucas has [...]

Alarm bells went off for Sarah Cameron* that day in 2008 when her 8-year-old daughter came home from school in a state of high agitation. There had been an incident during lunch break. The girl recounted how one of two Grade 6 monitors supervising the kids in her classroom had ordered her to sit at [...]

Food Allergy Action Plans UNITED STATES FAAN’s Back-to-School Tool Kit FAAN’s Food Allergy Action Plan Food Allergy Initiative’s Authorization of Emergency Treatment Form FAAN/FAI e-learning resource, comprehensive tool for teachers. www.allergyready.com Federal 504 Plan AAFA on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) National Assn of School Nurses’ Anaphylaxis Provision of Care documents CANADA Comprehensive resource - Allergy Safe Communities [...]

From blogs to the press to esteemed medical journals, those who support anaphylaxis policies in schools are being branded as “hysterical” or “fearful” or even needing to “feel special”. Exceptional anxiety is portrayed as the rule. AL bites into: why critics love to hate food allergy. IT DOES sound, if not “hysterical,” then at least [...]