In a recent BSACI on line symposium Professor Stephen Holgate called for urgent action to tackle the environmental causes of the global explosion in allergy cases: the loss of biodiversity, pollution, diet and urbanisation. This followed on from his keynote speech at the two day …
Natasha Allergy Research Foundation
Natasha Allergy Research Foundation – achievements – and more to come….
Tragedy changes lives but devastating though tragic events may be they are also the spur to extraordinary achievements - and that cannot be more true than of the Ednan-Laperouse family. There can be few people in the allergy world who have not have heard about Natasha, the 15 …
The drop in key nutrients in our food over the last 40 years and – attending a festival with food allergies
If you are wondering - you are quite right - the two topics have nothing in common, beyond the fact that alerts for both dropped into my inbox this morning and I thought both deserved a wider airing. The drop in key nutrients in our food over the last 40 years This alert came …
Do you know what to do if you think someone is having an anaphylactic attack?
Natasha's Allergy Research Foundation's latest newsletter asks this question - and how many of us really do know what to do? 'If you do one thing today' they say, 'share this post - it could save a life.' And so, I am...... Do you and those around you know how to help someone …
‘Our daughters’ deaths could have been avoided’ – we need an allergy Tsar to stop this happening again
Natasha, only 15; Shante, one week short of her 19th birthday. Both healthy and happy teenage girls at the start of their lives - both dead because, unwittingly, they ate a food to which they were severely allergic. In Natasha's case the sesame seeds that killed her were not …