Most asthmatic kids lack health management plans at school

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In Chicago, most kids with asthma or food allergies don’t have a health management form on file at school, a new study shows. On the rare occasions when a child has died at school from an acute allergy attack or asthma attack, the children usually did not have a health management plan, or a so-called 504 Plan, on file, said Dr. Ruchi Gupta of the Center for Community Health at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. Gupta and colleagues analyzed data from 2012/2013 on more than 400,000 Chicago kids, ages 3 through 18, including 18,287 with asthma and 4,250 with a food allergy. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..