Like others who live with periodically debilitating health conditions, many allergy 'sufferers' object to being labelled as 'sufferers'. Yes, on occasion they do 'suffer' as a result of their allergies, sometimes quite acutely, but being labelled as a 'sufferer' suggests a …
FreeFrom Gift Awards – a new Alex ‘special’! #FFGA
There is no keeping Alex down these days.... No sooner had he finished his very successful on line presentation of this years' FreeFrom Skincare Awards than he was off on another tack – FreeFrom Gifts Awards.... To be fair, this had not come entirely out of the blue. We have …
At last – at least the hope of universal testing….
God bless Jeremy Hunt – and I never thought I would hear myself say that. But according to a report in the Guardian, Hunt, who now chairs the Health Select Committee, is calling for mass population testing. “I would really want to expand the whole testing programme so we can …
You, Me and Food Allergies
Just over a year ago Emma Amoscato published her excellent Living with Food Allergies – a blueprint for getting families with allergic children through their first few scary years. (See here for my review.) But her idea had always been to follow it with a companion book for the …
The Reluctant Allergy Expert
If anyone knows about food allergy and anaphylaxis it is our good friend Ruth Holroyd, she of the What Allergy? blog and long time judge at both the FreeFrom Food Awards and the FreeFrom Skincare Awards. Ruth says that she has now lost count of how many times she has had …