"Food Allergy May Make Kids Bullying Targets"

[ajasfolks2]

By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Published: March 05, 2012

Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

ORLANDO -- About one-third of children with food allergies are teased or harassed at school because of their condition, researchers said here.

The prevalence of bullying among children with food allergies was 29% in New York City and 34% in Jackson, Miss., according to reports from two separate surveys presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology's (AAAAI) annual meeting.

Bullying tended to take place at school and was usually perpetrated by classmates and peers, but adults -- including teachers -- also were reported to have victimized children with food allergies.



Full article:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AAAAIMeeting/31492

[Macabre]

Thank you! I was coming to post it last night and am grateful you got this up!

[CMdeux]

I thought this was interesting because the numbers are higher in the students polled than in their parents.  That's definitely 'news' on this subject, where some researchers have previously concluded that PARENTS might be hypersensitive to exclusion/social costs, and that they matter far less to the kids than to us as parents. 

This strongly suggests that there may be a considerable percentage of socially negative events associated with FA that parents never learn about, which tallies much better with the anecdotal reports that I've seen in this community over the past decade.

[suevv]

Just so fundamentally important.  Thanks for posting this.

[ajasfolks2]

Seems as good here as anywhere in this Schools section:


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