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Allergy

Roundup and autism – is there a link?

03/07/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Simple explanations for complex problems are always very tempting but they rarely prove to be the answer. This is especially true in our modern medical world where  diverse, debilitating and ever more common conditions such as allergy, coeliac disease, Parkinsons, MS, ME  and …

Category: Allergies, Behavioural conditions / autism, Big Business, Chemicals, Coeliac/celiac disease, Environmental Issues, Food/Health Policy, PoliticsTag: Allergy, autism, autistic spectrum disorders, coeliac disease and glyphosate, could glyphosate cause autism?, Crohns' disease and glyphosate, effects of glyphosate on biological systems, figures for the rise in autism, glyphosate, gmo crops ubiquitous in US food chain, ME, Monsanto's Roundup, MS, Parkinson's, rise in autism, RoundUp, Stephanie Seneff, Stephanie Seneff at MIT, The complete patient

Elucidating allergy/intolerance confusion….

12/01/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Last week we had a meeting with the lovely Ceres PR who will be working with us on promoting the FreeFrom Food Awards this year – and one of the things they asked us to outline for them in our briefing was areas of confusion in 'freefrom' and allergy/intolerance. Not a …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 'butter' is not always a dairy product, Allergy, allergy to nuts not same as allergy to seeds, brazil and cashews nuts most allergic, Ceres PR, coeliac disease, confusion between coeliac disease and gluten sensitivity, confusion between food allergy and food intolerance, Cow's milk allergy, eggs are not dairy products, Food allergy, Food intolerance, freefrom, Freefrom food, FreeFrom Food Awards, freefrom has no legal status, freefrom is not a marque, Freefrom skincare, gluten sensitivity/intolerance, lactase, lactose intolerance, medical understanding of food allergy, peanut allergics may not be treenut allergic, peanuts are legumes no tree nuts, popular perception of food allergy

Personal Health Records – perfect for allergics

05/01/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

You doing anything on January 19th? In London? If not you might want to go along to the Wellcome Collection  in Euston Road between 11 and 3pm to find out about the latest NHS initiative that not only allows you to access all of your own personal health records on line, but to be …

Category: Allergies, Conventional MedicineTag: accessing medical records on line, Allergies, Allergy, allergy support groups, anti-histamines, diabetics, digital patient records, drug allergy, glucose allergy, kidney patients, latex allergy, London connect, medical records, monitoring drug treatments, NHS, Personal Health Records, Wellcome collection, young diabetics

Clashing rights and conflicting disabilities

06/03/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

As allergic reactions to everything from peanuts to poodles become ever more prevalent we are all likely to find ourselves sitting on the horns of some uncomfortable dilemmas. Two recent stories, culled from John Scott's' latest news' files, illustrate what I mean... Story 1. …

Category: Allergies, Environmental Issues, Food/Health Policy, TravelTag: Air Canada, Allergy, anaphylactic reaction, anti discrimination legislation, arbitrary curtailment of rights, Cat allergy, Cat-free zones, Court of law, court reporter, Disability rights, disablity, emotional support cats, evidence of harm from smoking, peanut allergy in schools, Peanut/treenut allergy, perfume allergy, right not to be placed in peril in the workplace, Right to work, smokers' rights, smoking

Living with eczema

17/02/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …

Category: Allergies, Alternative/Complementary Health, Blogging/social media, Eczema, FreeFrom SkincareTag: Action Against Allergy, Allergy, allergy-related eczema, anaphylaxis, Call the Midwife, celery allergy, dairy allergy, Dr Len McEwen, Eczema, eczema flare up, eczema in babies, Enzyme potentiated desensitisationn, EPD, Food allergy, food and eczema, Food intolerance, Jennifer Worth, Merton Books, National Society for Research into Allergy, nightshade intolerance, nut allergy, Ruth Holroyd, tomato intolerance, weeping eczema, What allergy?

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