Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
My friend and colleague, Ruth, of What Allergy has just released her new book: The Reluctant Allergy Expert, published by Curlew Books - the (very wise!) publisher of my 8 Step Healing Plan: Recovery from Chronic Illness with Mind-Body Medicine book. I've not got a copy yet, but hopefully I'll review it when I get …
As a former judge for these awards in the early days, I always love to see what new and exciting, innovative products skincare companies catering for all of us with sensitivities have come up with each year. Here are this year's winners for you - and I've asked Christine (TGF woman!) to see if she …
Essentially, official recommendations have been made that restaurants should label all ingredients in the meals they serve. For example (from the BBC News story here): Supermarket sandwich: already has to list full ingredients including allergens Over-the-counter sandwich: if it's made to order in front of you, it doesn't currently need a label. This will not change under …
I've been doing an awful lot of work on loss of oral tolerance recently in a bid to uncover the myriad biochemical reasons someone might be multi-sensitive. I have a lot more to do on it; I'm trying to do the research between patients for us and come up with a plan we can use …
Recently, I've been thinking about histamine intolerance - mostly because I was finding if I slather my head in antihistamine cream, it seems to help my headaches/migraine and also I realised that my core diet fits very well with the histamine diet. Ooer, I thought. So, of course, off I went researching it. I know …
Phew, the clinic work has suddenly gone quiet as it does approaching Christmas, so I have managed to finish my new factsheet on Histamine Intolerance for you; I've been working on it for a good while now! So, for everything you ever wanted to know about histamine intolerance (or histamine excess as it should be …
Continue reading "Histamine Intolerance Diagnosis and Treatment"
A good reminder for us today from Yasmina not to forget parasites as a cause of an over-enthusiastic allergy or immune response: PARASITES TRIGGER MAST CELL HISTAMINE RELEASE "Pretty much any invader can cause this mast cell activation... "There are many causes of a high overall IgE level, but parasite infection is definitely one of them. …
New Cyrex 10-90 food tests now on the shop for you as promised in a new section: Gluten, Cyrex and Autoimmune Tests http://ow.ly/r7g23006hyU
This is an interesting approach for those of you with infected eczema who maybe can't tolerate the usual approaches. I was chatting to a lovely lady, J, the other day who was telling me about her severe issues and how she resolved it as she had not responded well to antibiotics or supplements. I asked …
As a multiple food sensitive, I was pleased to read Dr Janice Joneja's recent Q&A on identifying and managing food intolerance, written for foodsmatter.com. I have read and done Janice's food elimination and challenge process myself and I agree wholeheartedly with her approach. There's just one problem: what happens when you remove the foods, except …