NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with peanutallergies may run the risk of not receiving life-saving treatmentfor a severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis because theydon’t have their epinephrine autoinjector with them at school,Canadian researchers report.

“When we say take the Epi-Pen on you at all times it meansliterally on you, and not in an office or somewhere else that mightgive you a false reassurance,” Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan of McGillUniversity Health Center in Montreal, a study author, told ReutersHealth.

Studies have shown that the main factor in whether ananaphylactic reaction is fatal is whether or not the person wascarrying an epinephrine self-injector with them, he added. Ideally,a person should get a shot of epinephrine within 10 minutes of thestart of an anaphylactic reaction.