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Great Allergy+FreeFrom Show – but…

26/05/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

This year's Allergy + FreeFrom Show at Olympia was a great success - huge crowds through the doors, lots of excellent seminars and workshops, loads of lovely freefrom foods to sample and skincare products to try out – and, of course, the presentation of the very first ever …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Eczema, FreeFrom FoodTag: allergen contamination, allergen control, allergen information, Allergy+FreeFrom Show, anaphylaxis, coeliac disease, cross contamination, dairy allergy, FreeFrom Skincare Awards, lack of allergy awareness, nut allergy, nutrition for those with allergies, What Allergy? blog

Congratulations to the Royal College of Pathologists on their low allergen garden!

26/05/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

So, another Chelsea Flower Show is nearly over – and even though we did not get a low-allergen show garden, we did get an excellent display from the Royal College of Pathologists in the RHS Environmental Zone in the Grand Pavilion:  Urban Greening – Not to be Sneezed at! Plants …

Category: Allergies, FreeFrom Skincare, GardensTag: accessibility for disabled people, Acers, Alex Gazzola, Cambridge University Botanical Garden, Chelsea Flower Show, FreeFrom Skincare Awards, Geraniums, hydrangea, Low Allergen Gardening, low allergen plants, National Army Museum, periwinkle, Royal College of Pathologists, Tawny Pipit, The Wire Studio, University of Cambridge Medical Graphics Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, War Horse exhibition

Gluten-free food – on prescription – or just cheaper?

25/05/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

On the basis that no publicity is bad publicity, last night's Newsnight feature certainly raised the profile of coeliac disease and gluten free food and, in the 'value for money' area, the NHS came out a lot worse than the gluten-free food manufacturers. None the less, a very …

Category: Allergies, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, PoliticsTag: BBC Newsnight, Coeliac UK, cost of gluten-free food, economies of scale, Gluten-free food, gluten-free food on prescription, Jeremy Woods, Mrs Crimble's, NHS, NHS waste, should coeliacs get their food on prescription?, staple foods, testing for allergens

Clematis time is here…

17/05/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

    Fecundity has broken out all over the garden! Rose and clematis in full flower and new families of foxes and birds... Click here for more. …

Category: GardensTag: clematis, Clematis Vyvyan Pennell, fox cubs, house martins, rose, Rose golden Showers

Not cheap – having an allergy…

13/05/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

One of the constant, and justifiable, moans of those with food allergies/intolerances (and the justification for keeping gluten-free staple foods on prescription) is that 'freefrom' foods cost so much more than 'normal' foods. There are many genuinely good reasons why this …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom FoodTag: 'specials' laboratories, allergy/intolerance nurse training programme, cost of allergen free drugs, cost of freefrom food, excipients in prescription drugs, FAIR - Foundation for Allergy Information and Research, Food intolerance, Freefrom food, gluten-free food on prescription, lactose in prescription drugs, NHS allergy centres, NHS allergy treatment, paracetamol crystals, prescription drugs, starch in prescription drugs, testing for allergens

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