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- Title: Peanut Butter in Schools: A Tough Nut to Crack!
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 181 KB
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Peanut butter, a seeming staple of childhood, affects an increasing number of children who have adverse physical reactions that may even result in death. Alarmingly, according to Sicherer, Munoz-Furlong, and Sampson (2003), the number of children with peanut allergies, tree nut allergies, or both doubled over a five-year period. American, French, and British researchers are particularly concerned about this serious health issue (Grundy, Matthews, Bateman, Dean, & Arshad, 2002; Sicherer et al., 2003; Wegrzyn-Nowak, Conover-Walker, & Wood, 2001) and the increasing number of people affected. This trend has prompted immunologists and researchers to raise questions about environmental, immunological, and genetic factors as possible links to peanut and tree nut allergies (Sicherer & Sampson, 2007). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), food allergies are abnormal immune responses to specific foods that the body reacts to as harmful (n.d.). Once the body reacts to the allergen (e.g., peanut) as a dangerous food, the body produces immunoglobin E (antibodies) in order to counterbalance the threat. When the next contact with peanuts occurs, antibodies send a signal to the brain to release histamines into the bloodstream. The histamines and the other chemicals that are released can lead to an allergic reaction, which may include hives, shortness of breath, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, drop in blood pressure, or tingling sensation on the tongue or a constricted feeling in the throat. Anaphylactic shock is the most severe reaction and can result in death in a matter of minutes.