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Chemical allergens and others
Nickel sulphate Nickel is one of the most common metals in our environment, and is the most common contact sensitises world-wide. About 10% of all women are sensitive to nickel sulphate and react to me...read more
Coeliac disease
Coeliac Disease (CD) is a chronic life-long inflammatory disease of the small bowel intestinal lining and may even affect as much as 1% of the UK child population according t...read more
Control your asthma at work
Some jobs involve exposure to substances known to trigger or even induce asthma. Occupational Asthma can be a serious problem. More than 200 substances have been reported as triggers forDo's and dont's of preganancy in allergy prone mothers
Pregnant mothers should: Not smoke cigarettes and avoid passive smoking. Avoid excessive alcohol intake. Avoid allergy provoking foods such as peanuts, nuts, sesame, eggs and fish. Avo...read more
Does my kid have a cold or an allergy?
These are signs that your child may have an allergy: Irritated, red, itchy eyes; Repeated sneezing: Children also sneeze when they have colds, but is more commonly associated with allerg...read more
Drug-free allergy cures
Allergies can bring discomfort and misery to your everyday life. Many people who suffer from the affliction are seeking allergy cures to relieve the symptoms they experience. In order to prop...read more
Ear Candling and Allergy
Very often, it is simply assumed that everybody "knows" what we mean by the word allergy and that everybody has a fundamental understanding of the principles involved in the disease mechanism. Wheth...read more
Food allergy testing
Skin Scratch Testing is the cornerstone in allergy diagnosis, it has been used for over 100 years. Skin testing is cheap, safe, easy to do and someone in the practice can easily be trained to...read more
General information about drug allergies
Allergic reactions to drugs are fairly rare, but almost all drugs can cause a reaction of sorts in a small number of people. Drug reactions ranging from a mild allergic reaction to a severe <...read more
Have you got eczema?
You probably have an ALLERGY When Body Language went live this topic had more hits than any other, and I can understand why. My oldest son has suffered from Eczema all his life, and if we ca...read more
Hay fever & rhinitis
Every year millions of people in the UK experience the discomfort of hay fever. Some people only have symptoms during the summer. Others have hay fever-like symptoms all year round (called 'perennial ...read more
Hay fever, not caused by hay!
The term hay fever is a misnomer: the condition is not caused by hay, nor does it produce fever. The clinical name is seasonal allergic rhinitis, which is a type of allergy. Seasonal allergic rhinitis occurs ...read more
Hayfever relief
If you notice symptoms during the warm weather you may have seasonal hayfever triggered by irritants such as grass or tree pollen during later spring/early summer, typically march-may for tree pollen and May ...read more
Hayfever: how to relieve it
Hayfever might seem like a minor irritation to those who do not suffer from it, but for those that do, the summer months can turn into the most difficult time of the year.Everyday routines can be badly disrup...read more
Heredity as a risk factor in allergic reactions
Three factors increase a person’s chances to have an allergic reaction. These are heredity, the immediate environment and upper respiratory infections.If one parent is allergic to a par...read more
Histamine intolerance
2-5% of all adults suffer from Histamine Intolerance (HIT). This official estimate (source: T. Schleip, Germany) shows that HIT is now a vastly more serious health problem than all food allergiesHow to prevent allergies
Prevention by avoidance Allergies may be prevented or treated. The most effective prevention is avoidance of the allergen. This is often not practical for the pilot who flies all over the country or is base...read more
How to treat allergies
Many people are afflicted with some type of allergy to all sorts of things, such as environmental allergens, odors, fumes, food, and cigarette smoke just to name a few. If symptoms become uncomfortable and ha...read more
Hypnosis and food intolerance
In recent years the field of mind body medicine (known as psycho-neuro-immunology or PNI) has been gaining wider recognition. Clinicians are now realising that the Cartesian dualist viewpoint with regard to m...read more
Infectious animal faces
Children love pets and animals are great for helping children form attachments and improve their social skills. But you should follow a few simple health and safety guidelines to keep everyone happy. Hygiene...read more
Injection desensitisation in allergy: immunotherapy or "allergy shots"
Few medical treatments have been shrouded in as much controversy as the practice of allergen-specific immunotherapy or desensitisation. The use of allergen-specific subcutaneous injection imm...read more
Keeping allergies and asthma under control
Allergies can be controlled largely by controlling your environment. Keep pets outside or confined to carpet-free areas outside the bedroom, make sure your home is free of house mice and cockroaches. Air clea...read more
Keeping your home clear of dust mites
t’s disconcerting that bugs live in your bed. But there are plenty of them. They’re called house dust mites and they night quietly live off the flakes of skin you shed, or they can make your life ...read more
Kissing and peanuts can be deadly combo
People who are allergic to peanuts might be taking their life into their own hands if they kiss someone who has just eaten a peanut product, even if that person has brushed his or her teeth. So claims researc...read more
Latex allergy explained
What is latex? The term "latex" refers to natural rubber latex, the product manufactured from a milky fluid derived from the rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis. Several types of synthetic rubber are a...read more
Liver cleansing
One of the more simple and popular cleansing techniques is known as the Liver Flush. It is used for removing excess fatty acids and other toxic substances fr...read more
Living with a chronic illness
What is chronic illness? Chronic illness refers to a group of illnesses that are permanent or last a long time. Examples of chronic illnesses include: allergies arthritis asthm...read more
Myths about allergies
As if people with allergies don't have enough to worry about, there are a lot of misconceptions going around that complicate diagnosis and treatments. Because allergies can be complex and can come from a vari...read more
Natural ways to strenghten your child's immunity
Breastfeed Breastfed babies experience fewer infections than bottle fed babies. Breast milk is vital in building your baby's immunity and protecting against disease. It also provides a complete nutritional balanceread moreNaturopathy: alternative and complementary medicine
It recommends organic foods; balanced nutrition; specific nutritional supplements; remedial exercise; remedial massage; hydrotherapy; magnet therapy, (such as the British-made Bioflow devices); Bach and bush ...read more
Nutritional therapy treats the body as a whole
Allergies Allergies should be viewed as symptoms of the whole body picture. Why are you disposed to getting allergies in the first place, rather than what are you allergic to? This is a very important question, because if yo...read more
Occupational allergies: allergic disease in the workplace
Allergies in the workplace are being more readily identified and are now a significant source of illness. Occupational disease of the skin my take the form of allergic contact dermatitis fro...read more
Over the counter ideas for treating your acne
In today's world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this article, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discus...read more
Soya allergy
Symptoms Symptoms include vomiting, colitis, diarrhoea, anaemia and irritability. Coughing, wheezing, asthma and rhinitis can all be features of soya intolerance. Asthma can result if soya f...read more
Taking steps to reduce the risk of your child developing an allergy
The term allergy describes a changed reactivity in the body to a specific substance entering the body eg. eaten, inhaled or injected. This substance may not be harmful in itself but results in an immu...read more
The asthma-allergy connection
Since her first attack in 1999, we've learned a lot about asthma. It is a chronic lung disease that is frequently characterized by tightening of the chest wall, inflammation, wheezing, and in...read more
Travelling with asthma
As soon as you are aware of an upcoming trip, make an appointment to visit your Asthma Specialist for a check up and to discuss the details of your trip. It would also be good to review other aspects of your ...read more
What allergy confirmatory tests are available to us?
Skin Prick Testing This is one of the oldest allergy tests and is the cornerstone of primary allergy diagnosis. It was first performed by Dr Charles Blackley who was a Manchester GP and Home...read more
What are asthma triggers?
Triggers don't actually cause asthma to develop, however your asthma becomes worse when you are exposed to your triggers. What are some common triggers? There are two basic types of asthma triggers,...read more
What are the main allergy triggers?
There are more than 240 allergens, some rare and others very common. Who’d have though that barley, pigeon feathers, silk, egg yolk, horsemeat, vanilla and lentils could be allergens? It’s true.Bu...read more
What causes asthma?
Just what causes asthma remains something of a mystery. Unfortunately, this condition often goes undiagnosed and untreated, as many people don’t even know they’re asthma sufferers.It’s regul...read more
What constitutes a good allergy practitioner
The Practitioner (doctor or nurse) needs to have plenty of time available for the consultation and a keen interest in allergy is paramount. In Allergology (the study of Allergy) the patient&r...read more
What is a food allergy?
Even the definition of this word is controversial. Let us start with adverse reactions to food.There are: predictable reactions like toxins (e.g. histamines), pharmacological (e.g. alcohol, caffeine) b...read more
What is food allergy?
Two different conditions Although most people describe any illness which they think maybe caused by food as a food allergy, they may only be partially correct.There are in fact two different conditions which...read more
What is hayfever?
Hay fever (seasonal allergic rhinitis) is an allergic reaction to pollen and spores. The symptoms include sneezing, runny eyes and nose, itching nose and sometimes headache a...read more
What is sinusitis?
Description Sinusitis is inflammation of the paranasal sinuses (air-filled cavities inside the bones of the skull). Sinusitis may be acute or chronic, a...read more
What we know about hayfever
The problem with allergies such as Hay fever and Allergic Rhinitis is that it is considered to be a trivial and inconsequential disease. Symptoms such as runny nose, itchy ey...read more
What you need to know about homeopathy
Homœopathy is a method of treating sick people with a medicine that will produce a cure that is gentle and fast in its action as well as permanent.A Homœopath uses remedies that have similar sympt...read more
What you need to know about pets and allergy control
You may know that cats can cause allergic reactions. What you may not be aware of is that dogs, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, birds, horses, cows, chickens, ducks and geese do so too.Ani...read more
When only fresh will do
I have suffered from an allergy since the end of 2002 when I began reacting violently and systematically, both in the UK and abroad, to virtually all foods including, unfortunately, many of the organi...read more
