{"id":5256,"date":"2007-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2007-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:00:00","slug":"anaphylaxis-meds-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/anaphylaxis-meds-school\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA: Kids Should Be Allowed to Take Anaphylaxis Meds to Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/acc-Protectube.asp'><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/images\/prod\/1234.jpg' border='0' alt='Auto-injector Protectube' align='right'><\/a>The American Medical Associated (AMA) has voted to lobby for laws that would allow severely allergic children to take life-saving medicine to school, <a target='_blank' href=http:\/\/www.daily-journal.com\/archives\/dj\/display.php?id=397942>The Daily Journal<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Many school districts and 18 states have bans that do not allow children to take medicine to school.<\/p>\n<p>The AMA&#39;s stance refers to medicine like prescription epinephrine and other injectable drugs that treat anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions), which can cause swelling, difficulty breathing, loss of consciousness, and death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Life-threatening allergic reactions to foods can easily happen at school or away from home, and an epinephrine injection at the first sign of a reaction is critical,&#8217; says AMA board member Dr. Rebecca Patchin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Associated (AMA) has voted to lobby for laws that would allow severely allergic children to take life-saving medicine to school, The Daily Journal reports. Many school districts and 18 states have bans that do not allow children&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}