We all spend a great deal of time stressing over children with multiple food allergies – as indeed we should – but, how often do we spare a thought for the rest of the family who, if the allergies are serious/life threatening, live just as restricted a life as their …
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Both good news and bad for coeliacs
The good news first.... The recent furore about the cost of gluten-free food on prescription (see my post here and endless comment elsewhere in the media) has had some good fall out. Despite the fact that the figures quoted on Newsnight and elsewhere did appear to have been …
Needed urgently – wheat-free bread that is also rice free
18th July. I posted the blog below about ten days ago and there has been a constant flow of comments and suggestions both via the blog, Facebook and Twitter, including one from Cheryl, the mum concerned (see below) detailing all the foods to which her daughter reacts. Recent …
The importance of wide-spread allergy awareness
I have just picked up a Twitter link to an article about formula milk on the NutraIngredients.com site. Research carried out in the US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia addresses the problem of delivering sufficient quantities of the right essential fatty acids DHA and ARA for vital …
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 …