The Allergic Child in School

Abstract

Allergic disease is the number one chronic illness of childhood. Progress in the total rehabilitation of the chronically ill child with allergies has been sufficiently slow to recall the lament of Ecclesiastes: “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” Progress in allergy and immunology research has zoomed like a rocket off its launching pad, but progress in the adaptation of a chronic allergic child to his society has been painfully slow.