Penicillin Allergy labelling in medical records is very common. up to 10% of the population are labelled as being allergic to Penicillin. That includes 2.7 million people in the UK. Research has shown that 95% of these Penicillin Allergy labels are incorrect when tested. Penicillin is a very useful and an effective low cost antibiotic [...]
New needle-free intranasal aerosol adrenaline administration device called Neffy, 2mg, has 30 month shelf life, and FDA and European approval (EUR Neffy). Not yet available in UK, but expected in Summer 2025. Administered via the nose, has absorption enhancer (reduces mucus viscosity). Administer dose of 2mg adrenaline (epinephrine) from 30kg body weight, 1mg device for [...]
After 25 years of our Surrey Allergy Clinic being based at the Nuffield Healthcare Hospital at Surrey Research Park in Guildford, we will be moving to new bespoke premises in Central Guildford. From 14th February, our Surrey Allergy Clinic will be based at Parallel House, 32-34 London Road in Central Guildford on the A3100. All [...]
“The ban on eating nuts on planes is ineffective in preventing anaphylaxis”. Peanut and nut particles are not spread through air-conditioning on planes. Allergy sufferers should rather be encouraged to wipe down their seat area, tray table and TV screen controls to remove any nut residues left behind by previous passengers. Touching nut residues in [...]
Now is the time to be considering what to do about your hay fever symptoms next year. We read about Pollen "bombs", global warming and El Nino weather system changes all making summer hay fever symptoms (Medical term Pollinosis) intolerable. Even taking mega-doses of antihistamines, soothing eye drops and anti-inflammatory nasal spray's, hardly have any [...]
A recent article by Lawrence Afrin (international expert on Mast Cell Activation), has suggested that Mast Cell Activation may be a mediator of Long COVID syndrome (multiple persistent and debilitating symptoms following a COVID-19 infection) and many Long COVID symptoms mimic those of Mast Cell Activation (including unexplained rashes and swelling, confusion with fatigue, palpitations, [...]
New Immunotherapy products are to be launched in UK this month. The great news is that ALK -Abello (UK) have been awarded license to sell two novel immunotherapy products in the UK and these will be available at Community Pharmacy's on prescription from Allergists at the end of this month. They will be joining the [...]
There has been a lot of confusion and misinformation about risks of anaphylaxis to the COVID -19 coronavirus vaccines available. Many healthy individuals are being declined the vaccine and told to be allergy tested if they have a history of food or medication allergy or any form of anaphylaxis. The COVID-19 vaccines contain no food [...]
ALK Abello will be launching their new House Dust Mite (Acarizax) and Silver Birch tree pollen (Itulazax) sublingual desensitisation immunotherapy vaccines (SLIT) in the UK in late 2021. This follows the highly successful Grass pollen vaccine SLIT called Grazax which was launched about 10 years ago and has greatly improved quality of life for thousands [...]
COVID-19 infections manifest in a multitude of different ways and after the initial viral illness, there seem to be a number of debilitating long-term effects that may develop. The skin manifestations are related to the COVID-19 virus damaging small skin blood vessels and very often mimic and be confused with skin allergies. 1) COVID Toes [...]