Leaving home for the first time in your late teens or early 20s is seriously exciting - and seriously scary. Whether you are moving out to get a job or to go to university, this may the first time you have ever lived away from home, had to do your own washing, pay your own bills, …
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You, Me and Food Allergies
Just over a year ago Emma Amoscato published her excellent Living with Food Allergies – a blueprint for getting families with allergic children through their first few scary years. (See here for my review.) But her idea had always been to follow it with a companion book for the …
Please support ‘You, me and Food Allergies’
Many of you will remember Emma's excellent first book, Living with Allergies – Practical tips for all the family, which came out last year (review here) and which has been flying off the shelves ever since. Well, now she wants to get the kids involved. So she is Crowdfunding …
Are insects worse than peanuts?…..
A few weeks ago I received an email from a clinical psychologist in Australia who had been reading Polly James' articles on the Foods Matter site about anxiety and anaphylaxis – Managing Anxiety following anaphylaxis and Helping children to face up to food allergy. She was …
Pret, Natasha and the sesame seed baguette
There is absolutely nothing good about a teenage girl dying as a result of an allergic reaction. But the massive coverage resulting from the inquest into Natasha's death has at least brought the issue of severe allergies to the forefront of everyone's minds – and that is …