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Article: Children with peanut allergy worry more than children with diabetes.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 24, 2003
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2003 NOV 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Research at the University of Southampton, England, suggests that children with peanut allergy have a worse quality of life than those living with diabetes, and that they worry more about the potentially life threatening implications of their condition.
In a study involving 40 9- and 10-year-olds, half with peanut allergy, half with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, researchers found that young people with peanut allergy felt restricted and unable or "not allowed" to do things that other people could. Two of the children even said they were scared of dying when they knew peanuts were nearby - for example, when ...