Anaphylaxis and adrenaline auto-injectors
Anaphylaxis and adrenaline auto-injectors: Anaphylaxis is an extremely severe allergic reaction. Reactions usually begin within minutes and progress rapidly, however, they can occur up to...
Tag: allergies
Why do people have seasonal allergies
Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though, this explosion of new life probably inspires more dread than joy. So...
Tree pollen allergies
It is commonly thought that hay fever and tree pollen allergies are only a problem in late Spring or the summer months, when the sun...
Allergies that start in adulthood
Adults who have never had allergies can suddenly develop asthma, eczema of food allergies long after they have left childhood behind. ‘Although most people develop...
Longer immunotherapy for hay fever
Immunotherapy, which was first trialled on hay fever patients in London in 1911, has an excellent record in helping reduce allergy symptoms. But how long...
Eggs after weaning
Parents were once encouraged by health experts to avoid giving their weaned babies certain 'high risk' foods to reduce the risk of their offspring developing potentially life-threatening...
Asthma – are we too clean?
Allergic disease accounts for 10 per cent of the GP prescribing budget and the incidence of asthma has reached epidemic proportions. So what lies behind the epidemic?...
Go nuts for allergies
Peanut allergy affects around one in 30 children (that's one child in each school class). We think that the rates of peanut allergy have probably stabilised -...
Old age beats pollen allergy
Now the hay fever season is upon us, millions of people will be coughing and sneezing and wiping their eyes. Around 25 per cent of...
You don’t know what you’ve lost ‘til it’s gone…
Smell is a wonderful sense. It is intimately linked to our taste and our appreciation of foods and drinks. It is also an important sense...
