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January 2010 Topic of the Month Food Allergies and College Students By Matthew Greenhawt, M.D. Given the increase in the diagnosis of food allergy in young children, it is expected that larger numbers of college students may have a food allergy in the future. But can campuses meet the needs of a college student with food allergies? At the University of Michigan, we attempted to categorize the scope of the food allergy problem within our large undergraduate student population. Based on pilot data from 2001, we had some indication that students were not only dealing with food allergy on a daily basis, they were also coping with dangerous risk-taking behaviors. These risks included not having emergency medication with them and eating food that may contain their particular food allergen. From spring through fall of 2007, we updated the pilot study questionnaire and adapted it for distribution as an electronic survey to the undergraduate population. Our aims were to define the scope of food
