The Anaphylaxis Campaign estimate that around 20 people a year die from anaphylaxis. Many of those will be 15-25 year olds – and many of those deaths just could have been prevented. As anyone with allergic children will know, life is relatively (yes, only relatively) simple …
Peanut allergy
All go – at the Allergy Show!!
It was certainly all go this weekend at the Allergy + FreeFrom Show in Olympia's Grand Hall. We haven't yet had all the stats but the perception of all of the exhibitors that I spoke to was that it was definitely bigger and better than last year (already a record year). That …
‘Alternative’ allergy tests
Sense About Science is a scientific charity whose remit is to inform the public and enable them to 'make sense' of scientific and medical discussions. A worthy aim in which they are usually moderately successful. However, they have just tackled allergy and, although they have …
Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had recommended her article on …
Precautionary allergen labelling – have we got the balance wrong?
In managing food allergy there are two major hazards: The failure to recognise a food allergen that has been included in a dish as an ingredient and The accidental contamination of an otherwise allergen-free food with an allergen. But while the failure to recognize …