The current issue of Action for ME's newsletter has a seriously scary article on the experiences of families with children suffering from ME who have faced false accusations of abuse, neglect and 'fabricated, induced illness' or FII (what used to be known as Munchausen's by …
Conventional Medicine
How to create a low allergen garden
Readers of this blog and our websites will know all about Tom Ogren, the originator of the concept of low allergen gardening, the inventor of the OPALS allergy scale and the author of The Allergy Fighting Garden, Safe Sex in the Garden and a number of other books linking the …
Oat and corn powder in surgical gloves – a concern for coeliacs?
We have been having a Facebook conversation with Lynne Saunt on a subject which has been causing her some concern – surgical gloves – and thought that it deserved a wider airing. Lynne is a coeliac who can tolerate neither oats nor Codex Wheat Starch. (She is not alone in …
Natural Solutions to Dementia and Alzheimer’s
OK, so I have not quite reached this stage yet but.... That free bus pass, useful though it is, has a down side. In its wake comes the nagging worry that your failure to remember telephone numbers let alone where you left your phone, that you forgot to go to the dentist …
Immunotherapy – do NOT try this at home….
Immunotherapy, especially when combined with probiotics (see Kate Lawrence's research reports this week), shows great promise as a treatment for life threatening allergies. But while the outcome for those who have been treated has been very positive, it is still fraught with …