“All About Food Allergy” is a new program available for schools to help them support students with allergies and educate their peers and others around them.

Connie Culligan, an educator who worked on this pilot project with a group called Food Allergy Canada, said food allergy affects 600-thousand Canadian children - equivalent to three children in every classroom of thirty.

Here she shares details about one of the program’s modules.

“The second module goes into teaching about allergic reactions and anaphylaxis signs and symptoms, the severity of the reaction. It also talk about intolerance and food sensitivity. Some people confuse anaphylaxis reactions and food sensitivity intolerance and they are very, very different so it goes into detail about that.”

There are three other modules which each take about 30 minutes to complete.

They include general information about allergens and how they can be hidden in food, how to manage food allergies and how to safely inject someone with an epi-pen.

Hear more about the program on Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.   You can also go to foodallergycanada.comschool program.