When you are diagnosed with a dairy or wheat allergy/intolerance, or when your tests come back positive for coeliac disease, your first reaction is to panic! Everything that you normally eat now seems to be off the menu – how are you going to survive? What will you eat? Will you …
Allergy/intolerance
Food Intolerance – or ‘Just’ Anxiety?…
Predictably, Dr Guido Basilisco's assertion that the majority of those who think they are suffering from lactose intolerance are actually suffering 'altered somatization' (they do have the symptoms but they are not caused by the disease) has spawned the usual rash of the 'we keep …
Going Travelling?
If so, I suggest you log in to What Allergy's very useful post on travelling in Portugal. Advice on travelling with allergies is to be found all over (we have a number of articles on the Foods Matter site) but Ruth covers several angles that most people have not thought …
NICE Allergy – and other guidelines
Most people interested in the subject will by now have registered the publication last month of the new NICE guidelines for the assessment and diagnosis of food allergy in children. They are relatively limited in objective and scope but, as Dr Adam Fox from the Childrens' …
‘Allergy Weeks’
If 'weeks' really achieve their intention of raising awareness, by the end of May the world awareness of allergy will be at an all-time high. A quick trawl of 'weeks' on Google's first four 'allergy week' pages brought up no less than six – and that only covered the UK, the US, …