If your child is suffering from chronic illness such as asthma or food allergy he or she is more likely to develop anxiety or other mental health disorders finds a study. The findings showed that anxiety disorders were most common including separation anxiety generalised anxiety and phobias in kids with chronic illness such as asthma food allergy epilepsy diabetes or juvenile arthritis. For the study detailed in the journal BMJ Open the team from the University of Waterloo surveyed children between the age of six and 16. According to parents' responses to a standardised interview 58 percent of children screened
