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 …
Ruth Holroyd
The Reluctant Allergy Expert
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 …
Ruth’s letter to her skin…….
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 …
Hay fever hits Chelsea headlines – well, almost….
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 …
Allergy Awareness Week
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 …