Excellent post on About.com on how to get rid of peanut residue from the hands and from furniture (soap and water by far the best method). It also points out that rinsing out the mouth does not get rid of peanut residue from the saliva – take care, those who wish to kiss …
Peanut/treenut allergy
The Pitfalls of ‘Advising’
It is really not easy being a government health agency. Whatever you say, you will be wrong in someone's eyes (sometimes wrong in almost everybody's eyes) but the purpose of your existence is to advise, so advise you must, even when there really is no advice to give. (The …
When is a nut not a nut?….
I was just reading a Q&A on Alisa Fleming's excellent Go Dairy Free site. The question was: We recently found out our son has multiple food allergies, including tree nuts and dairy. A lot of the coconut products say “contains tree nuts.” Are these products safe for our son, …
Christmas allergy care
The last thing that any wants to have to deal with over Christmas is a bad reaction to an allergen so, although it may be a bit of a pain, it is worth taking all the usual sensible precautions. Check our What Allergy?'s Stay safe this Christmas post for sensible, easy to …
Fear or being gluten-ed, or nut-ed or milk-ed…
Christmas is heading this way and although this is great news for most people, for coeliacs or people with serious allergies, Christmas and the entertaining that is so essential a part of the festivities, is also a time of anxiety – and often, fear. No one who has not lived …