A recent study of children aged 16 and younger in the United Kingdom found that anaphylaxis rarely occurred as a result of common pediatric immunizations and not at all as a result of infant and preschool immunizations.
The findings, published online on January 23 in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, are the result of a study conducted by Michel Erlewyn-Lajeunesse, M.B.B.S., of the University Hospital Southampton in the UK, and colleagues. They studied cases of anaphylaxis reported in the UK and Ireland between September 2008 and October 2009.
The researches found that seven out of 15 reported cases met the actual criteria for anaphylaxis following immunization. Six of the children (all of whom recovered) required epinephrine injections and intravenous fluids.
The estimated incidence was 12 cases per 100,000 doses for single component measles vaccine and 1.4 cases per million doses for the bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine. ”Anaphylaxis remains a rare adverse event following immunization. No cases were related to vaccines given as part of the ‘routine’ infant and preschool immunization program, despite over 5.5 million vaccines being delivered in this time period,” the authors wrote.
It should be noted that several authors disclosed financial ties to pharmaceutical companies and vaccine manufacturers.
Her mother, Laura Pendleton, told the local CBS affiliate that Ammaria was allergic to peanuts and that the school declined to accept an EpiPen (epinephrine injector) on her behalf last fall.
The results of a 
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U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D) and Mark Kirk (R) of Illinois have recently introduced the “School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act” which could potentially safeguard the lives of millions of school children with known food allergies and many more that have not been diagnosed.
In 2007, it was estimated that over 3 million children aged 18 years and under had some kind of food allergy1 and that number has been rising. Though there are many theories as to why this is, no one knows for sure. What we do know is that allergic reactions can range anywhere from mild – with symptoms like redness and itchiness – to anaphylaxis, a life threatening reaction that can include vomiting, difficulty breathing, and in extreme cases, death. To complicate matters, no one can predict with 100% certainty which children are at risk for anaphylaxis, and worse, a child doesn’t need to eat a food they are allergic to to have an anaphylactic reaction; contact with another child or an item that has been exposed to the allergen can sometimes be enough to trigger onset. Because of this, our children’s teacher carries an epinephrine injector, the treatment of choice if the unthinkable should happen, and why foods containing peanuts are prohibited from our children’s classroom.
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