Stockholm University, Sweden.
Health (London). 2014 Mar;18(2):130-45. doi: 10.1177/1363459313481234. Epub 2013 Apr 11.
Food allergy is an illness that requires constant risk management in everyday life. To date, there is no cure or preventive treatment, and the only way to manage the condition is therefore careful avoidance of the offending foodstuff and treatment of reactions when they occur. This article draws on a socio-cultural approach to explore parents' understandings and management of child food allergy in the context of everyday life, as 'situated' risk. A focus group study was carried out with 31 parents of children diagnosed with food allergy at two children's hospitals. The analysis of the focus group material reveals how the management of allergy risk seems to permeate most aspects of everyday life as well as how the parents draw on a dominant norm of risk avoidance as well as a counter-discourse of calculated risk taking. The patterns of risk management found in this study are discussed in terms of how risk avoidance and risk taking are intertwined and balanced in the context of moral parenthood.
食物过敏是一种需要在日常生活中不断进行风险管理的疾病。迄今为止，尚无治愈或预防治疗方法，因此管理病情的唯一方法是仔细避免食用引起过敏的食物，并在发生反应时进行治疗。本文借鉴了一种社会文化方法，探讨了父母在日常生活中对儿童食物过敏的理解和管理，即“情境”风险。在两家儿童医院对 31 名被诊断出患有食物过敏的儿童的父母进行了焦点小组研究。对焦点小组材料的分析揭示了过敏风险的管理如何似乎渗透到日常生活的各个方面，以及父母如何借鉴风险规避的主导规范以及风险计算的反话语。本研究中发现的风险管理模式是根据风险规避和风险承担如何在道德育儿的背景下相互交织和平衡来讨论的。
