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 …
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Horror stories….
I have just been working my way through John Scott's weekly compendiums of research reports for November and December (sadly, we are nowhere near as prompt at getting them onto the sites as he is at sending them to us) and I came across two really horrendous stories that he had …
Allergen-free skiing in the French Alps
Those of you who follow our FreeFromRecipesMatter site will know that, before Christmas Chef Kat at the Alikats Chalet in Morzine was our guest chef and provided us with the recipes for some of the seriously yummy 'freefrom' dishes that she serves to guests. Well, Ruth Holroyd …
Great Allergy+FreeFrom Show – but…
This year's Allergy + FreeFrom Show at Olympia was a great success - huge crowds through the doors, lots of excellent seminars and workshops, loads of lovely freefrom foods to sample and skincare products to try out – and, of course, the presentation of the very first ever …
Living with eczema
Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …