Kids with food allergies may be the target of schoolyard bullies
Posted by on October 7, 2010
As if kids with food allergies didn’t have enough to deal with at school, now they may have to worry about being bullied. A study finds that some children who have food allergies could be the target of bullies — and some of those bullies could be the teachers.
A new report in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology finds that about one-quarter of children surveyed said they were bullied because of their food allergies. Researchers gave surveys to 353 children and teens with food allergies; the vast majority were completed by parents.
The survey revealed that about 24% of the participants had been bullied, teased or harassed because of their allergies. About 86% of this group said they had been harassed more than once and that it occurred most often at school. (Most children reported having multiple food allergies, but peanut allergies were most common.)
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