The current issue of Action for ME's newsletter has a seriously scary article on the experiences of families with children suffering from ME who have faced false accusations of abuse, neglect and 'fabricated, induced illness' or FII (what used to be known as Munchausen's by …
How to create a low allergen garden
Readers of this blog and our websites will know all about Tom Ogren, the originator of the concept of low allergen gardening, the inventor of the OPALS allergy scale and the author of The Allergy Fighting Garden, Safe Sex in the Garden and a number of other books linking the …
New recruits to FFEating Out Awards judging panel….
Judging for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards is a pretty full time job, especially up in the north of England where we have relatively few judges and quite a lot of entrants. So when one of our new judges, coeliac Jackie Woodhead, realised that judging was going to clash with …
Oat and corn powder in surgical gloves – a concern for coeliacs?
We have been having a Facebook conversation with Lynne Saunt on a subject which has been causing her some concern – surgical gloves – and thought that it deserved a wider airing. Lynne is a coeliac who can tolerate neither oats nor Codex Wheat Starch. (She is not alone in …
PPD based hair dyes – update
My first blog about PPD was back in 2011 and yet I still get more comments on that than almost anything else. (Only equalled by Are you hosting a BT hotspot? which has taken on a life of its own!) So the purpose of this brief blog is to bring the material - and the many, …