Well done Ashley James – brother to four-year-old Edward who, along with their mum, has life-threatening allergies. Ashley, who suffers from asthma himself, is 13 but is already an old hand at awareness raising as, with all of the rest of his family, he took part in the Bupa …
Asthma
Raw milk, the hygiene hypothesis – and medical spin
In one of his recent weekly updates of research links posted on our news and research forums, I found John Scott spluttering with indignation about the ingenious way in which the Vermont Public News had managed to turn a report that children who live on a farm and drink raw milk …
Obtaining ‘freefrom’ prescription drugs
A couple of months ago we ran an updated version of an archive article on obtaining prescription drugs whose excipients (non-active ingredients such as fillers, capsules and colourings) were free of lactose, starch, corn, azo dyes, sugars etc – a major problem for those with …
Taking a new look at allergy research
As those of you who get the FoodsMatter newsletter, or who regularly frequent the information sites, Foodsmatter.com and Coeliacsmatter.com, will know, every couple of weeks we upload between 10 and 20 reports of new research studies on allergy/intolerance and on the many other …
In favour of fever
Our Christmas celebrations were slightly marred by one of our number coming down with a nasty bug – probably Norovirus or the 'winter vomiting bug' – that causes vomiting, diarrhoea, a temperature, headaches and stomach cramps. For everyone's information it normally goes away …