Erie, PA
Although all 50 states have laws that allow children with asthma to carry inhalers at school and 48 states have laws that let youngsters carry epinephrine pens for serious allergies, experts say that some kids are still being denied access to these lifesaving medications during the school day.
"Every school district handles this a little bit different, and for those who don't allow children to carry their medications, I think may be due to a lack of knowledge. School officials may not appreciate the risk that having epinephrine pens and inhalers
in a locked office, instead of with the child, can pose," said Maureen
George, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Nursing in Philadelphia.
"Fewer than 200 children die each year
from asthma in the U.S. That number is low, but those deaths are
preventable. And it's a double tragedy when you lose a child to a
preventable condition. And, some of those deaths happen in schools," she said.
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