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Ruth Holroyd

Allergy sufferers? No, allergy reactors

12/09/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

Like others who live with periodically debilitating health conditions, many allergy 'sufferers' object to being labelled as 'sufferers'.  Yes, on occasion they do 'suffer' as a result of their allergies, sometimes quite acutely, but being labelled as a 'sufferer' suggests a …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Eczema, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Peanut allergyTag: allergy 'sufferers' are not victims, Allergy reactors, anaphylaxis from food allergy, Food allergy, Frans Timmerman, Ruth Holroyd, The Allergy Table, The Reluctant Allergy Expert, What allergy?

The Reluctant Allergy Expert

06/08/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

If anyone knows about food allergy and anaphylaxis it is our good friend Ruth Holroyd, she of the What Allergy? blog and long time judge at both the FreeFrom Food Awards and the FreeFrom Skincare Awards. Ruth says that she has now lost count of how many times she has had …

Category: Allergies, Blogging/social media, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Mental Health, Peanut allergyTag: adrenaline reverses symptoms of anaphylaxis, Allergy bullying, living with anaphylaxis, psychological effects of anaphylaxis, risk of death from anaphylaxis, Ruth at What Allergy?, Ruth Holroyd, What allergy?

Ruth’s letter to her skin…….

13/12/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Those of us who are lucky enough not to suffer from eczema or any other itchy skin condition have have little concept of the constant irritation –  often constant torture – that they subject their sufferers to. Ruth Holroyd has to contend not only with multiple life …

Category: Allergies, EczemaTag: If my skin could talk, Ruth Holroyd, Ruth Holroyd of What Allergy?, Scratching and eczema, What allergy?

Hay fever hits Chelsea headlines – well, almost….

24/05/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

For the last 20 years or more I have been dutifully trecking off to Royal Hospital Road for Chelsea Flower Show's press day in the vain hope of finding a low allergen show garden. So I was more than frustrated (I was unable to go this year) when I heard an item on the Today …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Eczema, Environmental Issues, FreeFrom SkincareTag: Chelsea Flower Show, Countryfile diaries, grass pollen allergy, Low Allergen Gardening, low pollen plants, Maggie O'Farrell, Maggie O'Farrell and eczema, mould allergy, OPALS plant allergy ratings, pollen allergy, Royal College of Pathology, Royal Hospital Road, Ruth Holroyd, Tom Ogran, What Allergy? blog

Allergy Awareness Week

28/04/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

I am afraid that we were so caught up with the FreeFrom Food Awards last week that we had not really logged Allergy Awareness Week this week... So, better late than never - a brief alert: Allergy UK are running an awareness campaign called Living in Fear to highlight the fact …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: 2% US children have a peanut allergy, 44% allergy sufferers live in fear, Allergy Aventures, Allergy Awareness Week, Allergy UK, Living in Fear, Ruth Holroyd, What allergy?

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