With the rise in incidence of food allergies in children in the past decade, there has been a corresponding increase in the need for professional psychology services due to increased anxiety.
among children between 2013 and 2019, from 1,015 to 1,746. A food allergy is when the body’s immune system mistakenly treats proteins found in food as a threat, and anaphylaxis can be life ...
Anxiety is driving more children with potentially dangerous food allergies to seek out psychological care, a new study finds. Focusing on one Ohio hospital, the researchers found a more than 50% ...
"He says, 'Thank you, but I'm allergic.' I don't want him to take something that's essentially poisonous to him and put it with his other things." Food allergies affect 1 in 13 children in America, ...