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Student food allergy sufferers 'often unprepared'
06 Aug 2008
Many students who suffer from food allergies are not prepared to deal with a reaction should one occur, according to recent research at the University of Michigan Health System.
The studies also found that teaching staff, friends and roommates are, in many case, unaware of what to do if such a student suffers a reaction to something they eat.
It is noted that the most common food allergens are peanuts, milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, soy and wheat and that a life-threatening reaction caused by allergies is called anaphylaxis.
Lead researcher Dr Matt Greenhawt comments: "Food-allergic individuals need to increase the awareness of their food allergy among the people around them."
He adds that this would include telling peers that they are allergic, but also showing them how to recognise the signs of an ongoing reaction and how to treat them, web resource Eurekalert reports.
Meanwhile, a study published in the August issue if the Archives of General Psychiatry journal and carried out by staff at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute recently suggested that teenagers who get less rapid eye movement sleep may be more likely to be overweight.
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