New research from British Columbia confirms yet again that the earlier you start peanut immunotherapy the safer and more effective it is. This makes complete sense in the context of the new thinking about peanut allergy which emerged after Professor Gideon Lack's LEAP trials …
Peanut/treenut allergy
Good news for those with peanut allergy
The news may be grim on the virus front but there have been two bits of good news this month for those with peanut allergy. Earlier in the month The Journal of Allergy and Immunology: In Practice reported on on a trial which demonstrated that peanut oral immunotherapy is still …
Living with allergies – a blueprint
It is scary having a new baby, especially if it is your first. But how much more scary does it become when, even though you are breast feeding and doing all that the books tell you to do, your baby is obviously in constant pain, is not sleeping, is covered in eczema and is …
Further lessons for allergy sufferers
Huge media coverage was given to the inquest into the death of Natasha Ednan Laperouse as a result of eating sesame seeds in an unlabelled Pret baguette. Yet the inquest into the death of Megan Lee in 2017 from eating a takeaway Indian which contained peanuts appears to have …
Brief thoughts about the latest tragic death from anaphylaxis
Many of you will have read about the tragic death of 18-year-old Owen Carey last month from anaphylactic shock. All our sympathy goes, of course, to Owen's family and friends, all so pointlessly bereaved. But yet again Owen's death can only reinforce the Anaphylaxis …