Allergies 'needlessly alarm' childcarers
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- Wednesday, September 6, 2006 | Nursery World
Overstated dangers of food allergies in children are fuelling 'unnecessary alarm' among childcarers, schools and parents, according to a leading child health academic. Writing in the British Medical Journal this week, Professor Allan Colver, from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, argues that increasing diagnoses and prescriptions of adrenaline auto-injectors only inflame fears that are disproportionate to the risk. 'The chances of an under-16 dying of a food allergy are one in 16 million a year,' he said.