The grass pollen hay fever season is fast approaching and those of you prescribed oral immunotherapy should have now commenced treatment at least 2 months before the summer season kicks off in May. For the rest of us, make sure you start taking antihistamine medication at least for a week before those innocent looking lawns [...]
The Sunday Times newspaper has again produced a masterpiece of investigative journalism (Sunday 21st February 2010) highlighting the frightening number of nonsense allergy and food intolerance tests available in central London. It is amazing that there is no public watchdog to prevent these unvalidated and unscientific allergy tests from being promoted to unsuspecting members of the public [...]
Lactose Intolerance is a deficiency of the digestive enzyme B-galactosidase (Lactase) in the human intestine and a meal containing the cow‘s milk disaccharide sugar lactose (galactose bound to glucose) will induce frothy diarrhoea, flatulence and abdominal cramps. This is caused by undigested lactose passing into the colon where it is hydrolysed by bowel bacteria producing organic [...]
The Staphylococcus Aureus (Staph) skin germ plays a pivotal role in aggravating moderate to severe atopic eczema especially in children. Eczema first occurs in infancy but may persist through childhood into adulthood. Many factors have been implicated in causing and promoting eczema such as our gene makeup (atopy), skin allergy (to dust mites, pet dander [...]
Irritable bowel syndrome otherwise called IBS is a common medical condition affecting the lower bowel in 1 in 5 young adults. Females are especially prone to IBS which presents with one or more of 3 cardinal symptoms: A. Abdominal pain and spasm which eases when emptying the bowels. B. Bloating, fullness on eating and abdominal distension [...]