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Managing your child’s food allergy in primary school: Parent webinar

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 third in the series was “Managing your child’s food allergy in primary school” presented on Zoom on Wednesday 1 June 2022.

This webinar covers:

  • Understanding the risks in primnary school
  • Key principles of the Best Practice Guidelines for anaphylaxis prevention and management in schools
  • What does it mean to be Allergy Aware?
  • Includes responses to participant questions by an expert panel comprising:
    • Dr Katie Frith (Paediatric allergy specialist)
    • Dr Wendy Freeman (GP and Health Eductor for Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia)
    • Ms Briony Tyquin (Clinical nurse consultant in allergy, Children’s Hospital at Westmead)

The webinar recording is available below along with 3 questions that were unanswered specifically during the webcast.   

Content updated June 2022