I have just been reading a post on Ruth Holroyd's excellent What Allergy blog in which she asks whether she could be reacting to milk vapour in coffee shops? Ruth is extremely sensitive to a number of foods, including milk (anaphylactic to any ingested milk) but whereas she had …
Allergy/intolerance
Judging the FFFood Awards – parts 2, 3, 4 & 5!
Well, here I am, three days on, still ploughing through tasting sheets and judges' comments – and realising, especially in the light of some of the comments on my previous blog, that the FreeFrom Food Awards are less of an industry award than a blueprint for how freefrom should …
Moderation in all things – including worms…
I was alerted twice today to new research suggesting that as infection with intestinal worms, which has been endemic in the third world for millennia, declines, so the incidemce of allergic conditions such asthma and eczema increases – lending weight to the theory that a certain …
Safe Sex for Allergic People
An excellent and useful post from What Allergy – check it out. Fill in the gaps with Sarah Merson's article from a couple of year's ago on the FM site. If you suffer from ME/CFS, Interaction (the magazine of Action for ME) also had an excellent article a few months ago about …
Christmas allergy care
The last thing that any wants to have to deal with over Christmas is a bad reaction to an allergen so, although it may be a bit of a pain, it is worth taking all the usual sensible precautions. Check our What Allergy?'s Stay safe this Christmas post for sensible, easy to …