Tragedy changes lives but devastating though tragic events may be they are also the spur to extraordinary achievements - and that cannot be more true than of the Ednan-Laperouse family. There can be few people in the allergy world who have not have heard about Natasha, the 15 …
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FSA’s Food Hypersensitivity Symposium 2022
Earlier this month the Food Standards Agency held one of its annual food allergy/hypersensitvity (FHS) symposiums. We were in the middle of the FreeFrom Food Awards judging so I couldn't be there in person but fortunately they offered on line access to all of the talks and …
Take Hunger Off the Table – 20-21st March
So - there are now more food banks in the UK (well over 2,000) than McDonald's restaurants (1300)? Actually that figure is now well and truly out of date. Thanks to the rising cost of living and the uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine, there must now be more than twice as …
Do you know what to do if you think someone is having an anaphylactic attack?
Natasha's Allergy Research Foundation's latest newsletter asks this question - and how many of us really do know what to do? 'If you do one thing today' they say, 'share this post - it could save a life.' And so, I am...... Do you and those around you know how to help someone …
‘Our daughters’ deaths could have been avoided’ – we need an allergy Tsar to stop this happening again
Natasha, only 15; Shante, one week short of her 19th birthday. Both healthy and happy teenage girls at the start of their lives - both dead because, unwittingly, they ate a food to which they were severely allergic. In Natasha's case the sesame seeds that killed her were not …