Managing your child's food allergy in outside school hours care

The National Allergy Strategy has partnered with Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia to deliver a series of webinars to help parents and guardians manage food allergies and the risk of anaphylaxis in children’s education and care services, primary and secondary schools and camps.

The fifth in the series was “Managing your child's food allergy in outside school hours care” presented on Zoom on Wednesday 17 August 2022.

The webinar includes a short presentation from Dr Preeti Joshi, Paediatric Clinical Immunology/Allergy Specialist, and Sally Voukelatos, Health Management Educator, from Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia.

The presentations are followed by a question and answer session.

The webinar recording is available below.

Full webinar

Questions

Content updated August 2022

Managing your child's food allergy in outside school hours care

The National Allergy Strategy has partnered with Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia to deliver a series of webinars to help parents and guardians manage food allergies and the risk of anaphylaxis in children’s education and care services, primary and secondary schools and camps.

Full webinar

Managing your child's food allergy in outside school hours care - Full webinar

Questions

At what age do you think kids are old enough to carry their device with them in their bag? And how do we manage this issue of the OSHC service wanting to have one of the adrenaline injector devices left with them?

Are OSHC centers required to have general use adrenaline injectors, and do they have to have adrenaline injectors in different doses?

My son had an anaphylactic reaction recently at his childcare service. He is cow's milk allergic and they served him cheese containing cow's milk. How am I able to report this? Is this through the manner that Sally mentioned?