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(Medical-NewsWire.com, July 12, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- Data published in the journal Pediatrics summarized in the New York Times show that kids with common food allergies are often bullied. Robert Wood, the chief of allergy and immunity at John Hopkins Children’s Center says that get very frequent reports of food-allergy bullying from doctors who treat pediatrics patients.
While the study showing just how often food allergy bullying is, the actual bullying is far from new. Meghan Maloney, now an adult, wrote into the New York Times after the study was summarized to explain that she was bullied in the mid-1990s for being lactose intolerant. When she moved to a new school and her classmates found out she couldn’t have dairy products, kids slipped cheese into her soda can. Luckily, someone ratted those kids out and she didn’t drink the soda. If she had, she could have went into anaphylactic shock.
Children who eat a vegetarian diet are also bullied at school, according to NPR blogger Barbara King. Most children aren’t physically bullied in the way Maloney was, but many psychologists see vegetarian students who suffer emotional distress from being bullied for their lifestyle choice
not to eat meat.
Wood says that food-allergy bullying should be treated the same way as any other type of bullying. A child should tell an adult immediately, and instead of defending themselves, keep calm and not let the bully get the desired effect. If the child tells his or her parent, that parent should make the school aware of the bullying and demand appropriate action be taken.
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