Bullying among pediatric patients with food allergy.

Background: There are reports of children and teens with food allergy being harassed because of their food allergy, yet no study to date has attempted to characterize these occurrences.

Objectives: To determine the presence and characteristics of bullying, teasing, or harassment of food-allergic patients owing to their food allergies.

Methods: Questionnaires were completed by food-allergic teens and adults and by parents of food-allergic children.

Consumer attitudes and risks associated with packaged foods having advisory labeling regarding the presence of peanuts.

Background: Foods with advisory labeling (eg, "may contain") are increasingly prevalent. Consumers with food allergies might ignore advisory labeling advice.

Objective: We sought to determine whether consumers with food allergy heeded advisory labels and whether products with advisory labels contained detectable peanut allergen.

Impact of ingredient labeling practices on food allergic consumers.

Background: Food allergic consumers depend on ingredient labels for allergen avoidance, and the modality of labeling is changing.

Objective: To investigate current responses to food labels so that the impact of future label changes can be anticipated.

Methods: Adults who attended Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network conferences completed a survey regarding their experiences with food labels for their family's most severely affected food allergic individual (FAI).

Impact of food allergies on school nursing practice.

Food allergies affect 11 million Americans, including 6-8% of children. The rate of peanut allergies in children doubled from 1997 to 2002. There is no cure; therefore, strict avoidance of the allergen is the only way to avoid a reaction.