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 …
Food allergy
Depression, darkness, allergy…
Mid January is, notoriously, the time of year when people (well, those in the northern hemisphere anyhow) feel most depressed. I think that last Monday is the peak (or trough) depression day but the whole month is pretty grim. Not surprising really – the weather is cold and grey, …
Should allergens be banned from a household with an allergic member?
I just came across an article from an recent Sunday Telegraph headlined 'Food fight over allergy ban' which investigated, once again, the extremely knotty problem of whether or not you should allow allergens into a household with an allergic member. There are in fact, two …
www.freefromchristmas.com
The last week has been a mad dash to get our FreeFrom Christmas site up and running by its deadline of – today... But we made it – and are rather pleased with the results. The idea was to give allergy and intolerance sufferers, coeliacs and those with problem skins lots of …
Food Intolerance – or ‘Just’ Anxiety?…
Predictably, Dr Guido Basilisco's assertion that the majority of those who think they are suffering from lactose intolerance are actually suffering 'altered somatization' (they do have the symptoms but they are not caused by the disease) has spawned the usual rash of the 'we keep …