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You, Me and Food Allergies

16/08/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: Allergy UK, anaphylaxis, Emma Amoscato, Helen Braid illustrations, Living with Food allergies by emma Amoscato, You me and food allergies

Please support ‘You, me and Food Allergies’

05/03/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom FoodTag: anaphylaxis, crowdfunding for allergy book, Emma Amoscato, food allergies in children, food allergy symptoms, Living with Allergies by Emma Amoscato, rise in food allergies in children, You me and food allergies

Are insects worse than peanuts?…..

01/10/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: AllergiesTag: anaphylaxis, anaphylaxis to bees, anaphylaxis to food, anaphylaxis to insects, Dr Polly James, Helping children to face up to food allergy., Managing Anxiety following anaphylaxis, psychological effects of anaphylaxis, What allergy?

Pret, Natasha and the sesame seed baguette

01/10/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

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 …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom FoodTag: 2014 Food Information for consumers, allergen declarations in non-pre-packed foods, anaphylaxis, anaphylaxis to sesame, Food allergy regulations, Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, Pret a Manger artisan baguettes, sesame allergy, smal outlets and the 2014 FIC regulations, stickers on fridges not sufficient allergy warning

Alert5 – a really useful app!

23/10/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

I have rather lost count of the number of 'allergy' apps that have been launched to help you do your 'freefrom' shopping. I am not entirely sure how successful any of them have been – but it always seemed to me that it would be easier just to read the info on what you wanted to …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Electrosensitivity, Peanut allergyTag: Alert5, anaphylaxis, emergency alarm app, emergency medical alerts, Epipen, GPS technology, handbag calls, How to use an Epipen, Lee Henderson, sending an anaphylaxis alert, sophisticated GPS technology

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