Training Needs For Staff

It’s a good thing to have training in place for staff in an early years setting if a child or children have a diary allergy as it can be quite lethal if a child takes an anaphylactic shock and it is not properly dealt with.  Teachers and appropriate staff need to be trained in how to use an epi-pen because

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The Role of the Professionals

When a parent is unsure of whether or not their child has an allergy particularly to dairy products – as a lot of children go through this stage of showing signs of dairy allergies or lactose intolerance but this soon fades after a short while – the parents can take their child to the doctors for referral who will be

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Diagnosis of Dairy Allergies

Dairy allergies are quite common in children in this day and age, however it is usually very easily spotted as children are drinking milk from the day they are born whether it be through breast feeding or through feeding them formula through a bottle.  In infancy it is claimed that they already cannot digest the proteins in milk and they

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What is a Diary Allergy

Allergies by its very definition is: “A damaging immune response by the body to a substance, especially a particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2014). One of the many common allergies in children and young people in this world, over 2 – 5% of infants and young people who have this

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