As I was doing the ironing this morning... I caught, The Food Chain on the World Service – an investigation into licensed medicines to treat peanut allergy. You can download the programme and listen for yourselves but here is a quick overview. Immunotherapy (gradually …
Conventional Medicine
Wensleydale addendum – electromagnetic sensitivity – and dental implants….
Wensleydale, as you will have gathered from my previous blog, is delightful but... Do not assume that just because you are in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales you are any safer from electromagnetic radiation than you would be in the heart of a city. I don't know where it was …
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 …
What do you know about ultra sound scans?….
Well, not a lot, to be honest. Like most people I have never really thought about them, despite their very wide use for diagnostic purposes in adults and in babies in the womb. But Jim West believes that we are very unwise to believe that just because ultrasound is so widely …
Prescription restriction – are the savings real?
Outrage has had a field day over the last ten days – whether it is coeliacs outraged that Simon Stevens wants to deprive them of their prescription foods or non-coeliacs who are outraged that coeliacs should get 'free' food – which of course is not free anyhow, unless you get …