Peanuts allergy cure is here

In a recent peanut allergy study at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, traces of peanut flour were used to desensitise 18 highly peanut allergic children. At the end of the study conducted in a controlled hospital environment, they were able to consume 12 peanuts each without any allergic reaction. The study involved eating minute trace amounts [...]

By |2012-04-21T19:38:06+02:00October 17th, 2009|Food Allergy|0 Comments

Should Allergy Testing be done in Pharmacies?

The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) has recently raised concerns about allergy testing in pharmacies. They site a major problem being that pharmacy training involves education about medicines, not about clinical disease, patient history taking, psychology etc. This means that pharmacists do not know what the possibilities for diagnosis are in patients [...]

By |2013-01-09T13:51:21+02:00October 17th, 2009|Allergy Testing|0 Comments