I was delighted to see that in response to my suggestion that we should all harrass Pizza Express to provide gluten-free pizzas, not only had Jeemboh emailed Pizza Express, but they had replied! They make the perfectly valid point that the environment in a Pizza Express …
Allergies
Are all Grains Evil?
We recently had an email exchange with a father whose five-year-old coeliac son had had a reaction from eating, they believed, some 100% gluten-free porridge oats from a well-known oat company. The child was obviously very sensitive and his parents extremely caring and careful …
The SAD Season is Here
I was reminded by a very helpful post on Micki Rose's blog yesterday that the SAD season is upon us again. Do have a read. For those who are not acquainted with SAD, although the fallout from the condition is indeed 'sad', SAD actually stands for Seasonally Affected Disorder – …
Fear or being gluten-ed, or nut-ed or milk-ed…
Christmas is heading this way and although this is great news for most people, for coeliacs or people with serious allergies, Christmas and the entertaining that is so essential a part of the festivities, is also a time of anxiety – and often, fear. No one who has not lived …
Allergen Free Medications – Suppositories!
Nutritionist Micki Rose has done it again! Come up with another invaluable bit of information for allergics! We have run several articles in foodsmatter.com over the years about the excipients (non-drug ingredients) in prescription medicines that are used to contain the drug, …