Western culture can be seen as permeated by risk-consciousness. In particular, parents are under scrutiny in their roles as risk managers. In this article, we address parental experiences of children more at risk than other children, children with food allergy, and the management of allergy risk in everyday life. Drawing on a notion of risk as ‘situated’ in local everyday life, we argue that a further exploration of parental understandings of child food allergy risk would benefit from an analysis of studies across different local contexts. In this article, we draw on a secondary qualitative cross-cultural analysis of interview data from several studies of parents in Sweden and Scotland through 2006–2010, which focused on parents’ understandings of the nature of food allergy and the children’s management of the allergy risk. We found some common themes in the different data sets. First, parents depicted food allergy as life-threatening, a ‘death risk’ lurking in the background, more or less constantly present in different everyday situations, amounting to an existential condition in parenting. Second, they talked about food allergy risk as a relational phenomenon, meaning that the risk emerged in the encounter between the young person’s individual competence to manage allergy risk and the understandings of allergy risk in others – thus depending on contexts and interaction between several actors. Finally, the analysis showed that unpredictability and risk in constant flux are the prominent aspects of living with food allergy. We also discussed the ways risk and trust are related, as well as how the involvement of others can be seen as both a risk and a safeguard.

西方文化可以被风险意识所渗透。特别是，父母在作为风险管理者的角色方面受到严格审查。在本文中，我们将探讨比其他孩子，患有食物过敏的孩子以及在日常生活中应对过敏风险的管理更有风险的孩子的父母经历。借鉴当地日常生活中的“风险”概念，我们认为，对父母对儿童食物过敏风险的理解的进一步探索将受益于对不同当地情况的研究分析。在本文中，我们基于对瑞典和苏格兰直到2006-2010年间父母进行的几项研究的访谈数据进行的第二次定性跨文化分析，研究的重点是父母对食物过敏性质和儿童过敏管理的理解。风险。我们在不同的数据集中发现了一些共同的主题。首先，父母将食物过敏描述为威胁生命的，潜伏在背景中的“死亡风险”，在不同的日常情况下或多或少地不断出现，构成了父母的生存条件。其次，他们谈到食物过敏风险是一种相关现象，这意味着该风险出现在年轻人处理过敏风险的个人能力与他人对过敏风险的理解之间的相遇中，因此取决于环境和多个参与者之间的相互作用。最后，分析表明，不断变化的不可预测性和风险是食物过敏患者的主要表现。我们还讨论了风险和信任之间的联系方式，以及如何将他人的参与视为风险。和保障措施