Food Allergies

By: Shantell Darden, Rebecca Fisher, Jordan Peterson, and Chelsea Guest

What are they?◦ When the body’s immune system responds negatively to

certain foods Common allergens include nuts, milk, fish, and wheat

Symptoms of Food Allergies?◦ Mild Reactions include headaches, stomach pain and

swelling◦ Severe Reactions include difficulty breathing, increased

heart rate, and decreased blood pressure How Do You Know?

◦ Testing methods: Blood & Skin Tests What to do about Food Allergies?

◦ Mild Cases: Benadryl/Creams◦ Severe Cases: Epinephrine Injection (Epi-pen)/Hospital care

A Little About Food Allergies…

Rhetorical Strategies◦ Appeal to Reason

“One study discovered that when both parents are allergic, 67% of the children are also allergic”

Food Allergies

Focuses on the negatives of Peanut Butter being in school Appealed to both sides Audience

◦ Parents & Schools Rhetorical Strategies:

◦ Connotation “banned” “prodded” “smeared”

◦ Appeal to Emotion “my child’s life or your kid’s lunch” “We’re not talking about her getting the sniffles”

◦ Loaded Words “who gag at peas” “send shivers down the spines of school…”

Nothing’s Safe: Some Schools Ban Peanut Butter as Allergy Threat

Thesis:◦ “While network officials say they are not forcing

schools to take any particular actions, the schools say that anything less than a total ban [of peanut butter] is unlikely to satisfy the critics”

Nothing’s Safe: Some Schools Ban Peanut Butter as Allergy Threat

Rhetorical Strategies◦ Loaded Words

Immunology, oversensitivity, culprit, misdiagnosed, hypoallergenic

“In extreme cases, misdiagnosed allergies have put children at risk for malnutrition”◦ This a quote from a food specialist that show’s

how effective and hurtful food allergies can be on young children.

“His diet become so, so restricted that nutrition had become a real concern”

Telling Food Allergies From False Alarms

Thesis:◦ An understanding of parenting issues related to

food allergy is particularly relevant because of the increase in prevalence of pediatric food allergy in recent years.

Telling Food Allergies From False Alarms

Rhetorical strategies◦ Rhetorical Questions

“Why are food allergies on the rise?” “What is on the horizon for management and prevention

of food allergies?”◦ Diction

Unbiased Informative

◦ Appeals to reason “the number of children with reported peanut allergy had

doubled from 0.5% to 1.0%” “positive skin tests to peanuts have increased threefold

from 1.1% to 3.3%”

Are Food Allergies on the Rise?

Thesis:◦ ◦ There is proof that food allergies are on the rise;

there are many theories as to why this is happening and how to treat and prevent the symptoms.

Are Food Allergies on the Rise?

“Four out of every 100 children has a food allergy”

Because food allergies seem to be on the rise and because they affect both families and peers, schools and communities are making efforts to give attention to those with food allergies and give proper symptom and emergency information to others without them.

Group Thesis

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