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Addenbrookes hospital

How peanut flour became a drug….

02/03/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

This weekend's newsletter carries a report on the Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic that I went to visit last month. The clinic was set up by Dr Andy Clark and his colleagues as a result of their successful 2014 trial showing that the immune systems of peanut allergic children …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Food, Food/Health Policy, Peanut allergyTag: Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic, delivering peanut flour in capsules, Dr Andy Clark, Dr Pam McEwan, NICE guidance, peanut flour, peanut patches, peanut protein in peanut flour, Successful 2014 peanut immunotherapy trial, Therapeutic use of food, Using trials designed for drugs to test the safety of a food

The Telegraph needs to get a grip of the facts

17/03/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Dr James le Fanu's weekly roundup in today's Telegraph carries the following : Sue Hattersley, head of the department at the Food Standards Agency responsible for imposing the “bureaucratic nightmare” of new regulations complained of by 100 leading chefs and …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, Nuts, PoliticsTag: 14 major allergens, Addenbrookes hospital, allergen desensitisation, Daily Telegraph, Dr James le Fanu, EFSA, food fraud, Food Standards Agency, LEAP study, Professor Gideon Lack, restauranteurs, Sue Hattersley

PPD, henna and the dangers of cross reactivity

23/02/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

The inquest into the death of Julie McCabe four years ago has finally come to a close – with the coroner suggesting that the black henna tattoo that Mrs McCabe had had done in Dubai four years earlier could have been a factor in raising her sensitivity to the PPD which killed …

Category: Allergies, Chemicals, Coeliac/celiac disease, Eczema, Environmental Issues, Peanut allergyTag: Addenbrookes hospital, allergic reactions to PPD, anaphylaxis to PPD, black henna containing PPD, black henna tattoos, childhood anaphylactic reaction to peanuts, deaths from allergic reactions to PPD, Dr Andrew Clarke, Dr Janice Joneja, Epipen, Food-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis, Julie McCabe, L'Oreal and Julie McCabe, latex cross reactions with avocado, Skinsmatter, sudden onset of anaphylaxis, TRACE study

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