"The UK fatal anaphylaxis register has attempted to record every acute allergic reaction in the UK since 1992 and is the most accurate sourse available in the world for statistics on fatal anaphlaxis."
"The common peanut butter sandwich has become the centre of debate inmany schools and communities across Canada. It has always been a nutritious lunch-time staple, but it can also be a killer. Although statistics are very difficult to obtain, the Ontario Coroner's office reported seven deaths of school-aged children from allergic reaction to peanuts, tree-nuts or sesame seeds between 1986 and 1991."
"Eight children under the age of 16 died from food allergy between 1990 and 2000 in the UK.* That’s one death for every 16 million children each year. Even amongst children who have a food allergy, the risk of death is still low. Working on the principle that about 5% of children have food allergy, which means there’s one death for every 830,000 children who suffer from a food allergy. No child younger than 13 died from eating peanuts in the period in question"
"It may surprise you that we think the risk that a pre-teenage child with nut allergy will have a fatal reaction is so small that the wisdom of supplying adrenaline syringes for them is highly questionable. For the whole of the USA we are currently aware of only three such deaths over many years, far fewer than from a huge variety of other causes. Both in Britain and in the USA children's specialists working on nut allergy are trying hard to establish the facts, and it seems likely that when we are more certain about the facts we will be able to be much more reassuring about nut allergy in the youngest age groups. Of course the simple fact is that anyone who is alive has a risk of dying. If it turns out that the risk from nut allergy is much smaller than the risk from a number of other everyday things, our efforts would be much more sensibly devoted to those other risks. No drug is entirely harmless, and adrenaline (epinephrine) injections carry slight risks of their own. If the risk from nuts is low enough, it will be outweighed by the risks of giving adrenaline."
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