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 …
Allergy
Judging the 2012 FreeFrom Food Awards – fascinating and rewarding
Kate Hawkings (food writer) and Louise Marchionne (allergy therapist) 'working on' category 12 – scones, sweet tarts, sweet biscuits, cookies etc. Like last year’s, this year’s judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards was a thoroughly enjoyable, if somewhat exhausting, experience! …
Are Macdonalds french fries safe? Here we go with labeling again…
I am not sure who pointed me to this post but it illustrates, yet again, the terrible confusing tangle that is allergy labeling.... The question is, effectively, whether hydrolysing, or breaking down a protein into its amino acid components, destroys its allergenicity or reduces …
In favour of fever
Our Christmas celebrations were slightly marred by one of our number coming down with a nasty bug – probably Norovirus or the 'winter vomiting bug' – that causes vomiting, diarrhoea, a temperature, headaches and stomach cramps. For everyone's information it normally goes away …
Should allergens be banned from a household with an allergic member?
I just came across an article from an recent Sunday Telegraph headlined 'Food fight over allergy ban' which investigated, once again, the extremely knotty problem of whether or not you should allow allergens into a household with an allergic member. There are in fact, two …