The negative impact of FAs on pediatric patients and their families' lives may be significant due to several reasons including: difficulties in practicing a strict allergen avoidance; possible nutritional impairment; fear of accidental exposure; feeling of being different from one's peers; absences from school and from work, respectively, for patients and their parents which generate a major detriment to a country's economy ( 21 – 27 ).
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