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Allergy Diagnosis, Testing and Treatment *NEW*
Many years ago I was taught medicine in London when it was swinging and Carnaby Street sold rainbow clothes. Our teachers had qualified before the Second World War well before most test had been invented and cholesterol was "bad". We were taught to take a careful medical history, perform a physical examination and then, if necessary, do tests to confirm what we had already decided ...
Food Standards Agency Issues Revised Advice on Certain Artificial Food Colours
Following the publication of new research commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), parents of children showing signs of hyperactivity are being advised that eliminating certain artificial food colours from their diets might have some beneficial effects on their behaviour ...
How to Cope with an Allergic Child - Workshops Help Find the Answers
Workshops for parents of allergic children are to be launched this November by national charity Action Against Allergy in association with the Children's Allergy Service at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London ...
Peanut allergy study reaches 100th participant
A clinical research study to help determine whether consumption or avoidance of peanuts is the best way to prevent peanut allergy in young children, is celebrating the enrolment of its 100th participant ...
Cow Milk Allergy
supplied by Act Against Allergy
In some children the ingestion of milk can trigger the body into launching an inappropriate immune response to the proteins in milk resulting in an allergic reaction: the Cow Milk Allergy ...
Pillows - A Hot Bed of Fungal Spores
supplied by The Fungal Research Trust
Researchers at The University of Manchester, funded by the Fungal Research Trust, have discovered millions of fungal spores literally right under our noses - in our pillows ...

Allergy Clearing, DNA Activation & Autoimmunity by Sol Luckman

Having spent nearly a decade dying, I am deeply grateful for the pioneering of Dr. Devi Nambudripad, developer of Nambudpripad's Allergy Elimination Technique. NAET employs muscle testing (kinesiology) to determine allergies--a term encompassing chemical, environmental and nutritional sensitivities that derange the immune system and contribute to a variety of "incurable" ailments...
Co-op Supermarket bans MSG and Artificial Food Colours
The Co-op has become the first supermarket group to ban a range of commonly-used colours and monosodium glutamate (MSG) in all its own-label food, because of potential links to food intolerance and fresh concerns about children's diets ...
Allergies to Dogs by Jennifer Brooke
A very interesteing article showing how you can live with dogs even if you have a pet allergy ...
Scientists discover novel method to reduce cat allergic reactions
Imperial College London & Royal Brompton Hospital have discovered a way to decrease allergic reactions by increasing numbers of CD4+ regulatory T-cells ...
Do you have the right prescription? The Allergy Magazine
Allergies can be difficult to deal with at the best of times, but imagine being ill and in need of treatment, yet being allergic to the medication that could cure you...
Food and Moods The Allergy Magazine
We are what we eat. So what does your diet say about you? You might be surprised at the extent to which your diet can affect your moods and your allergies...
10 things you MUST know about the EpiPen The Allergy Magazine
The benefits of carrying your EpiPen with you...
Allergy in the UK The Allergy Magazine
We're constantly reading that allergies are on the increase, yet there seems to be a chronic lack of commitment from the health service to fight the problem ...
Babies and Food Allergy by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
The allergy world is a very confusing one - if only because very few health professionals really understand much about it! ...
Dairy Free from Cradle to Grave by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
Dairy free diets sound horrendous to the un-initiated but there are many who have learnt to love them ...
Dairy Free Infants and Toddlers by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
Milk has a great image. Wholesome, comforting, nutritious - it represents everything we cherish about family, community, continuity. But - whose milk? ...
Could a food allergy be turning your kid hyperactive? The Allergy Magazine
Does your child struggle to concentrate or get in trouble a lot at school? Is his or her behaviour so bad it's ruining your family life? Has he or she been diagnosed as hyperactive? ...
Why Body Piercing Could Be a Rash Move The Allergy Magazine
Samantha Lee (not her real name) winced in pain as she slowly rolled up her T-shirt and examined her stomach in the bedroom mirror ...
The Truth About Energy-Based Allergy Treatment
by Robert Fioravante, M.S.
I have formerly suffered with allergies for over twenty years. Finally, I have been liberated from years of debilitating allergy symptoms by an alternative allergy treatment known as "energy-based allergy elimination." ...
Food Allergy and Intolerance by Dr Michael Radcliffe
If you want to give your GP a stressful moment, tell him that you suspect you have a food allergy - few subjects in medicine have been the cause of more controversy ...
Everything you need to know about hay fever treatments and which treat the causes not just the symptoms
by Stephen and Paul Duxbury
You have just seen the weather forecast, the pollen count is rising again. Oh dear another bad day ahead, when will the hayfever season ever stop? ...
The Allergy Volcano - An Overview of a Modern Disease
by Jennifer Worth
Allergic diseases are increasing world wide. It seems that we cannot adapt to the environment we are creating ...
Homeopathy and Allergic Hay Fever
by Adrianna Holman
Homeopathy has been scientifically proven to treat hay fever just as well as conventional medicine ...
Links Between Eczema and Other Allergic Disorders
by Dr Stewart Rutherford Morison
  This title was suggested by Deborah, so is not of my making as will become immediately apparent! ...
Eczema, food allergy and tests by Dr Richard Turner
  It is always a difficult question to answer: "Is my child's eczema caused by something he/she is eating?"...
Neonatal Sensitisation to Latex - A Medical Hypothisis
by Jennifer Worth
  Babies born in delivery rooms of hospitals are exposed to latex through skin and mucous membrane contact with prepowdered latex gloves ...
 

 

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