Good: In racket hands, nuts or milk a weapon may be

Margaret lock

Students can differences in addition to their colleagues set and might make them a target for bullying. But a severe food allergy is a unique vulnerability: it takes knowing only a lunch or cupcake birthday party for other children, which classmates can not eat nuts, eggs, milk, or even a trace of wheat. It can be for them to understand how frightening it is with a life-threatening allergy live longer take.

Surprisingly, classmates can prey on this vulnerability, child's lunch change plotting to help determine whether she gets as sick, or boiling milk on the face of the child and cause an anaphylactic reaction.

In a recent survey of 251 sets of parents and children with food allergies, published in Pediatrics in January reported about a third of the children, harassed for their allergies. Parents knew only half of the time of threatening behavior.

Dr. Robert Wood, the Director of the Pediatric allergy at Johns Hopkins children's Center in Baltimore, calls very often 'Reports' of bullying from patients and their parents, he said. Only last week was the face of a child with peanut butter, endangering the child touched. Usually bullying is not so extreme, but the phenomenon "there all the time been", he said.

But now begins the problem on attention deserve. In may, food allergy research and education, a nonprofit group in McLean, Virginia, released a public service announcement highlighting the problem, the selected students complain about the cafeteria as a "scary place." It has more than 17,000 hits on YouTube, is been shown on the CW Network and spurred dozens of parents unnerving to share anecdotes about the Group's Facebook page.

"Bullying never should be regarded as a rite of transition", said John Lehr, the Chief Executive of the group. "It's never a joke, but food allergy bullying is really no joke because someone in emergency room can be made."

Children's National Medical Center in Washington was only a psychologist at his food allergy program, partly to help young patients, who feel themselves isolated or bullied. Dr. Hemant P. Sharma, the Director of the program, said one-third of the Centre patients report being bullied.

Every few months a child is told an allergen that is, force-fed, said Dr. Sharma, adding, "even if only one child who feels it who are singled out because of their food allergy, it strengthens the emotional burden."

In fact, some children with food allergies get desperate or anxious. Dr. Wood regularly sends children to a psychologist ", because they are touching no doorknob or a bathroom to use.", because they fear unintended exposure to their allergen

The Jaffe food allergy Institute at Mount Sinai Medical not only Center in Manhattan offers children and parents the advice after bullying, but principals in a patient will call name.

Victims of bullying say not always her parents. But miles Monroe, 8, Bethesda, MD., who is allergic to milk, eggs and wheat, told him that he does not feel in the canteen comfortably after a classmate a Kit Kat instead of candy wrappers in the vicinity of his face and kept singing, "You can not eat!"

Miles was not "afraid he would be sick of him, but he felt attacked," said Courteney Monroe, 44, his mother and the chief marketing officer for national geographic channel. By miles understanding nipped the problem in the bud teacher by talking to the yeller about what it would be like if he his favorite food (bad), couldn't eat got (worse) teased about it or had to go to the hospital if he it eaten (the result was until then unthinkable).

Not every teacher is also concerned. "Food allergy in connection with bullying not always by colleagues, but on adults such as teachers, is overrepresented," said Elisabeth Stieb, a nurse in the food allergy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

At least 15 States have targeted guidelines for dealing with food allergies in school, and many bullying to go. Texas guidelines require "Zero tolerance for bullying related to food allergy." Arizona guidelines proposed cafeteria monitors are trained to "quickly intervene to prevent trade with foodstuffs or bullying activities."

Bullying differs from usual tease. What separates them, is not only one makes the difference between the children, a pediatrician and researcher at the University of Texas, said Dr. Rashmi Southwestern Medical Center, Shetgiri, but that "someone deliberately trying someone else harm."

As well as cyberbullies use electronic devices, others to infringe, food allergy bullies "are their power with the allergen claim", Dr. Shetgiri said.

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