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 …
anaphylaxis
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 …
Alert5 – a really useful app!
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 …
Inside the teenage male brain
Moving on from 7–9 year olds' bizarre ideas about water consumption, John Scott alerted me last month to a new book investigating why it is that teenage boys so often appear to take the craziest of risks. This is especially concerning if you are the parent of an allergic teenage …
What Allergy? Essential reading for all food allergics
This is just a mini rave about our friend and colleague, Ruth Holroyd's, excellent allergy blog, What Allergy? I am sure that many of you will already know or follow Ruth – but if you don't, you should! Around 80,000 people do read her blog every month, so if you don't, you are …