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CHECKLIST for Children with Food Allergy Attending School

Leave a Comment / Environmental and airway, Food, Testing / By Dr Tom Marrs

Every Child Deserves the Safest Environment Possible at School The British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, AllergyUK and Anaphylaxis Campaign today published their landmark policy document to support parents navigating a safer school environment for children with food allergy. Twenty percent of severe food allergic reactions in childhood happen at school. Healthcare professionals, charity …

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Spring is early; has your child noticed already?

Leave a Comment / Environmental and airway, Testing / By Dr Tom Marrs

With such a mild winter, you may have noticed butterflies in December and spring wildlife emerging already. We have already found children struggling with hay fever for the past month; earlier than in many years! Is your child having increasing sneezing, congestion, rubbing eyes and nose? Why so? Hay fever can start as early as …

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Is my child allergic to nuts?

Leave a Comment / Food, Testing / By Dr Tom Marrs

If your child reacts to nuts, it usually causes a lot of concern, with fear for what may happen in future. However, the reality is usually safer than most people expect, having read the media headlines. The important steps are to assess whether a genuine allergy to nuts may be likely, to consider whether avoiding …

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Can you test for allergies at home in the UK?

Leave a Comment / Testing / By Dr Tom Marrs

Children and families have ever increasing demands upon their time and well-being. We know that juggling a professional career in conjunction with a busy home-life creates a mountain of hurdles with knock-on tasks. Proactive Allergy therefore offers a remote consultation service, compete with home blood testing kit for confirming diagnoses and recommending treatment. Some high-street …

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Which is better for diagnosing allergies; skin or blood testing?

Leave a Comment / Testing / By Dr Tom Marrs

Allergic reactions are triggered if someone has been producing IgE antibodies which recognise a tiny protein allergen. When the person is exposed to enough allergen by eating, touching or breathing it in, the IgE antibodies may bind on its surface, cross-link making a bridge with allergen blood cells and trigger them to release allergy mediators …

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