allergy
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 to the British Medical Journal. It is triggered by a delayed allerg...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 for occupational asthma. In the western world, it is thoug...read more
Dangerous leaves!
"Leaves of three - let it be!" aptly describes this woody vine with 2-4" leaflets in groups of three. The center leaf has a longer stem than the other two. Poison ivy clings to tree trunks and other vertical surfaces with hair-like aerial rootlets that grow ou...read more
Do'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. Avoid excessive exposure to pets such as cats, dogs, horses and house-...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 allergies; A runny nose, with clear, watery discharge, not thick...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 properly address allergy problems, it is necessary to try and determine...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. Whether or not that is true, one can decide for oneself after we have cl...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 perform it. Commercial inhalant allergens are rea...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 anaphylactic shock are possible. Drugsread 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 can do anything to help sufferers here, the work that went into the s...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 allergic rhinitis'). Hay fever and perennial rhinitis &n...read more
Hay fever treatment: acupuncture
Hay fever is very common in Cheltenham (where I work) and each year I see a lot of people suffering from this complaint. People usually come because they know of someone who benefited from acupuncture treatment, or as a last resort after having tried everyth...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 when airborne pollens or particles of plant or ani...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 to July for grass pollen.”A ccording to rece...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 disrupted during attacks, and to make matters worse, the...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 particular substance, a child runs a risk of 30-50 percent of inheriti...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 allergies put together!Digestive problems (prolonged di...read more
How mast cells work
Your body is a weapon. The immune system is a machine of war, ready to take on invaders. The immune system has its own internal affairs department: it can identify cells which are infected with viruses and which are in the process of becoming tumours...read more
How 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 based in a region filled with numerous allergens. Ironically, many pilo...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 happen on a routine basis, then allergy treatment and testing may be ...read more
How your skin works...
It’s a good thing that your skin does its work on the periphery of your body, because having a four-kilogram organ in your torso would leave far less room other essential items such as your heart and liver. But spreading it in a thin layer around your body means that y...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 medicine and healing (that the mind and body are separate entities t...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 immunotherapy spans 90 years. The procedure was pioneered by Noon at S...read more
Introduction to asthma treatments
Asthma is an individual condition, it varies from person to person. Health professionals are advisers to your health, but ultimately you decide which treatment is best for you.The aim of conventional asthma medications is to act on the symptoms, so that ast...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 cleaners and filters for air conditioners should have HEPA filters to h...read more
