I thought, when we put Caleigh (the Gluten Freek)'s story up on the sites, that as short dietary straws go, she had drawn one of the shortest. (Caleigh has suffered from Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and five years ago, joined a mercifully select band of only 600 …
Helminthic therapy
Invisible allergens
When you are diagnosed with a dairy or wheat allergy/intolerance, or when your tests come back positive for coeliac disease, your first reaction is to panic! Everything that you normally eat now seems to be off the menu – how are you going to survive? What will you eat? Will you …
Moderation in all things – including worms…
I was alerted twice today to new research suggesting that as infection with intestinal worms, which has been endemic in the third world for millennia, declines, so the incidemce of allergic conditions such asthma and eczema increases – lending weight to the theory that a certain …
Happy New Year!
I have to admit to having a bit of a problem with New Year's Eve... All that forced bonhomie, those overpriced meals, the endless famous faces flitting on and off 'celeb' shows. All I usually want to do is go to bed with a good book.... So when the fates conspired to leave me …
Medical self help
Some weeks ago John Scott directed me to two sites about which he was seriously excited – two facets of what he called 'a new type of site for 'crowd-source health solutions' - leveraging the experience of others to make more informed health decisions for oneself. LOVE it! More …