Well done Ashley James – brother to four-year-old Edward who, along with their mum, has life-threatening allergies. Ashley, who suffers from asthma himself, is 13 but is already an old hand at awareness raising as, with all of the rest of his family, he took part in the Bupa …
Allergies
Dairy disappointment
From all the headlines over the last few weeks, dairy allergics could not be blamed for thinking that all their problems had been solved – if Australian A2 milk did not do it for them, then Daisy, the hypo-allergenic New Zealand cow certainly would... But, alas, beyond the hype, …
FreeFrom pizza feeding frenzy!!
It's like Number 9 buses, really. For years you wait (well, hours in the case of the Number 9 bus) – frustrated, annoyed, disillusioned, hopeless, near despair.... and then three of them appear, one after the other! And so it is with freefrom pizzas! I could fill a …
Interacting with the supermarkets
Alex at Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink is drawing up a coeliac and allergy sufferer wish list of products that they would like to see in supermarkets.... It started as a response to some frustrated Tweeters complaining of the dearth decent gluten-free lunch options in …
The parents’ side of it…..
We all spend a great deal of time stressing over children with multiple food allergies – as indeed we should – but, how often do we spare a thought for the rest of the family who, if the allergies are serious/life threatening, live just as restricted a life as their …