Breathing easier at school.Now that many state laws allow students to carry asthma and anaphylaxis anaphylaxis (ăn'əfəlăk`sĭs), hypersensitive state that may develop after introduction of a foreign protein or other antigen into the body tissues. medications to school and administer these drugs to themselves, the Allergy allergy, hypersensitive reaction of the body tissues of certain individuals to certain substances that, in similar amounts and circumstances, are innocuous to other persons. Allergens, or allergy-causing substances, can be airborne substances (e.g. & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics has launched a campaign to educate students, parents, heath care providers, and school staff about these new laws New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de. and to help students better manage their conditions. The campaign homepage at http://www.BreatheAtSchool.org/ offers an interactive U.S. map showing state laws on permitting these medications in schools. Visitors can also download free educational materials such as the Allergies and Asthma at School Kit, which guides students and parents in talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to school staff about allergies and asthma. |
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