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About a quarter of school nurses reported that U.S. students during the 2015-2016 school year had epinephrine administered and, in many cases, it was by unlicensed staff, a researchers reported here.
Around 16% of all reported doses of epinephrine were administered by unlicensed staff or students, according to Michael Pistiner, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues.
Moreover, about a third of epinephrine doses were given to students who had no previous allergy known to the school, the authors stated in a presentation at the American Academy of Pediatricsannual meeting,
Pistiner's group argued that even though food allergy prevalence is under 10%, about 16% to 18% of kids have had an allergic reaction at school or daycare. Moreover, in the authors' home state of Massachusetts, 25% of epinephrine administration was to children whose allergy was unknown to the school, and added that new regulations addressing epinephrine in school are becoming widespread throughout the U.S.