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 …
Hayfever: Try This…
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 …
New Histamine Factsheet
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 …
Histamine Intolerance Diagnosis and Treatment
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 …
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Parasites Trigger Histamine Reactions
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
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
Silver Clothing For Eczema
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 …
Ah, I Wish It Was As ‘Simple’ As That!
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 …
New Leaky Gut Factsheet
For your delectation today we have a new Leaky Gut/Hyper-Permeability factsheet. Leaky Gut, or actually body barrier breakdown, as many of you know, is a specialist subject of mine so I did have to limit myself to stop this factsheet being enormous, ha! That said, it is jam-packed with useful stuff for you. It includes …
Life As A Multiple Intolerant: Not As You Know It!
A comment from our friend Michelle at Foodsmatter on this blog post the other day got me thinking about just what our daily life is like as severely multiple intolerants. At the same time I was thinking about that, I noticed a thread on the FB groups about how difficult it is to explain to …
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