Reuters (2/26, Crist) reports that “parents of children with food allergies should acknowledge their kids’ anxiety, as well as their own, a group of allergy experts advises” in an article published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Dr. Ruchi Gupta, director of Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research and one of the authors of the article, said, “Coping with food allergies impacts relationship skills with peers and classmates, emerging independence and sense of self-efficacy, social skills and confidence, willingness to participate in sports teams, dating and more. Coping is an individual internal experience, too: Feelings of worry and anxiety can color all thinking and generate anxiety about many life experiences.”
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— “Allergists offer advice to parents of kids with food allergies, “Carolyn Crist, Reuters, February 26, 2020