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Teen Star Kenton Duty on Food Allergies and Bullying : What do you do when you're a kid who has life-threatening food allergies and you have to deal with other kids who don't understand what that means exactly? Well, in my new novel, William Edwards and the Wizardly Glasses, William Edwards has friends ...

Food allergies and bullying  - My son isn't picky. People who don't know about food allergy don't understand the severity. This is life threatening. If he eats a certain food, it could ...

Bullying and Food Allergies : LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - As many as 1 in 13 children in the US have food allergies, many of them with potential life-threatening reactions. And a new survey suggests some of those children are bullied , teased or harassed because of a food allergy, ...

Food Allergies, Bullying Often Linked, Study Finds When children have food allergies, their parents have to constantly watch out for allergens and be prepared for a possible reaction. Another concern, and one that is often overlooked, is bullying .

Food Allergies Inflame Children and Teen Bullying Rates While the rise of social media has enabled cyber- bullying and changed the way in which children interact with one another, the factors that incite verbal and physical harassment remain constant, according to a recent study published in the journal ...

Food allergies can predispose kids to bullying | BabyCenter Blog This “food bullying ” includes being taunted by foods containing the offending allergen and having that food thrown at them or even stuffed in their mouths. In this Time article Bonnie Rochman reports on a study in the Journal Pediatrics that ...

Kids These Days Are 'Food Bullying' Kids With Allergies Oh great, in an episode of Freaks and Geeks come to life, a doctor with the Council of Relationships warns that school bullies are using kids' food allergies against them now. Dr. Stephen Treat tells CBS Philly about this probably-not-too-new ...

Food Allergies Can Make Kids Targets for Bullies : "The one thing that makes food allergy different from bullying because of, say, obesity, is that in addition to the emotional and psychological distress, you run the risk of a physical harm if the allergen is indeed placed in food," said lead study ...

Students with food allergies face bullying  - It made me scared when kids would chase me around and say they had peanut butter and all of that," said Thomas Majka, who was bullied at school ...

Food Allergy May Make Kids Bullying Targets Explain that about a third of children in each of two survey studies reported being bullied because of their food allergies. Note that in one of the surveys, in which parents and children were interviewed separately, nearly one-third of parents were ...