Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Health Tips
Guest Post by Joseph J Rousso, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Facial Plastic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. Co-director of Cleft Lip, Palate, Microtia & Ear Anomalies services at The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, NY. To make an appointment with Dr. Rousso, call 212-979-4119.
The feelings of angst, desperation, and hurt that a parent feels when their child is born with an ear malformation are indescribable. It leads to parental guilt, even though ear malformations are in no way the parents doing, and uncertainty about their child’s future and how they will be treated by their peers. About 5 percent of the population is born with what can be classified as an ear deformity, and yet so little attention is given to this subject matter. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research
Children with food allergies are frequently bullied by classmates but experience less psychological distress when their parents are aware of it, according to researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, who surveyed 251 families during their visits to Mount Sinai’s Jaffe Food Allergy Institute in 2011.
The study—published online in the December 24, 2012, issue of Pediatrics—found that as many as 45.4 percent of the children, ages 8-17, reported being bullied, and 31.5 percent reported that food allergy was the reason.
“Parents and clinicians need to ask children with food allergies if they have been bullied,” says the study’s lead author Eyal Shemesh, MD, Chief of the Division of Behavioral and Developmental Health in the Department of Pediatrics at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. “Bullying is prevalent. Kids often don’t tell their parents, and it is important to know this is an issue.”
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The feelings of angst, desperation, and hurt that a parent feels when their child is born with an ear malformation are indescribable. It leads to parental guilt, even though ear malformations are in no way the parents doing, and uncertainty about their child’s future and how they will be treated by their peers. About 5 percent of the population is born with what can be classified as an ear deformity, and yet so little attention is given to this subject matter. (more…)