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(over 600 schools)
Anaphylaxis Canada conducted a study of the Toronto District
School Board in the Fall of 2001 and found several interesting
pieces of information;
- 33% of the schools returned the survey (200/ 600 potential
respondents).
- 89% were from elementary schools. The response rate from
high schools was almost zero!
- 90% or the schools surveyed did have children that had
peanut/tree nut allergies (1.1% of the population)
- Of these schools, 93% reported that these students did
have an epinephrine auto-injectoror equivalent.
- 4.8% indicated that there had been a bullying incident
related to food allergy
- Other potentially life-threatening allergies included
milk (5.5% of schools) fish (8.0%) egg (9.1%) latex (3.7%)
exercise (1.3%) bee sting (25.5%)
- A minority of schools reported a food related allergic
incident (8.21%)
- Of those schools that reported that they have students
with life threatening allergies, 88% follow an established
policy/procedure to deal with such issues.
This work was made possible thanks to an unrestricted educational grant from Kellogg Canada Inc.
Last date modified on Friday, April 7, 2006
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