In December 2017, on a post Christmas shopping expedition, 42 year-old Celia Marsh died after suffering an anaphylactic reaction. She had just eaten a super-veg rainbow flatbread from Pret a Manger which was subsequently found to contain milk protein to which she was …
Allergies
Harry Morrow Brown revisited
Older readers of this blog - and indeed many older allergy sufferers - will remember Dr Harry Morrow Brown, an indefatigable searcher after allergy truth, who died nearly ten years ago. As a doctor he was endlessly curious and if a conventional solution to an allergy problem did …
Could TRACE study findings point the way to a PAL solution?
One of the biggest bugbears of life as a food allergic person is Precautionary Allergen Labelling (PAL) or May Contain labelling. This is intended to warn you if there is a risk that the food concerned might be contaminated with any of the 14 major allergens. But because it is …
Biolab goes into administration
I was horrified the other day to go to the Biolab site in search of some information about a past conference to be met with the following announcement: 14th July 2022 Biolab Limited has gone into administration due to the delay by The Care Quality Commission in processing …
Peanut immunotherapy – the younger the better
New research from British Columbia confirms yet again that the earlier you start peanut immunotherapy the safer and more effective it is. This makes complete sense in the context of the new thinking about peanut allergy which emerged after Professor Gideon Lack's LEAP trials …