Poor and Minority Children With Food Allergies Overlooked and in Danger | Kaiser Health News

Poor and Minority Children With Food Allergies Overlooked and in Danger | Kaiser Health News: Having a child with a food allergy is terrifying for any parent, but for low-income families such allergies can be especially deadly. Food assistance programs and food pantries rarely take allergies into account. And access to specialists, support groups and lifesaving epinephrine can be hard to attain. This especially hurts low-income Black children, who have higher incidences of allergies to corn, wheat and soy than white kids.