What a coup!! You see those round little yellow tickets saying OPALS? They are there to tell you, on a scale of 1 – 10, how badly that flower and its pollen will affect you if you have hay fever or allergic asthma. And they are all over the gold-winning Birmingham City Council …
Allergies
So what is all this about histamine intolerance?
Looking back over the FoodsMatter site statistics for the first months of this year I note that on average there were 90-100,000 'unique' visitors per month to the Allergy and Intolerance section of the site, 30-35,000 of whom (approximately 30%) visited the histamine pages. And …
How to get the best out of an exhibition….
Those lovely people at F2F (aka the Allergy and FreeFrom show) threw a party for us exhibitors yesterday – which was extremely nice of them! And not only did they feed us a very tasty lunch, but they told us some extremely useful stuff about the shows themselves and threw in a …
Brief thoughts about the latest tragic death from anaphylaxis
Many of you will have read about the tragic death of 18-year-old Owen Carey last month from anaphylactic shock. All our sympathy goes, of course, to Owen's family and friends, all so pointlessly bereaved. But yet again Owen's death can only reinforce the Anaphylaxis …
Coeliac Awareness Week and ‘real’ bread
There is a whole load more huff and puff in today's press following the ESPGHAN report suggesting that gluten-free products are higher in fat and lower in protein than non GF products. Well yes, they often are – but far less so than five years ago – and good progress is being …