Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
Boots UK do not offer IgG food intolerance testing – which is, as is summarised here, regarded by the immunological, dietetic and wider scientific community as useless – but Boots Ireland do. Strange then, that Boots WebMD, on their How…
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I’m a fan of science. I’ve little patience with those who consider science an optional means of understanding the world (in my experience, exclusively people who’ve never studied it), and I believe evidence-based medicine – which uses rigorous scientific method…
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Another day, another Daily Mail article telling some people they’re deluded. I agree with Dr Ranj on a lot: the unproven usefulness of IgG testing, the risks of extreme diets, that self-diagnosis is not reliable, for instance. My objections are…
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Another day, another dismal and under-researched article on coeliac and gluten free, this time from Glamour Magazine. I’ll itemise some of my problems with it. Feel free to add your own. 1. Description of coeliac disease as ‘gluten aversion’. Food…
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First, look for a study to come along, on which you can peg a press release. This one might do. It looks at the association between dichlorophenols – chemicals used to chlorinate water – and food allergic sensitisation, ie IgE-mediated…
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I’d heard a few mutterings that Andy Murray, like his friend and tennis rival Novak Djokovic, had been making adjustments to his diet – and now we have some confirmation. In a press conference with the media ahead of the…
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So this week’s news is that NICE has published the first evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and assessment of food allergy in young people and children. Here’s a link. The papers have it covered, and pretty well. Here’s The Telegraph,…
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Testing for food hypersensitivities is a confusing business. Here’s a summary of what the medical profession can do: 1. Coeliac disease can be tested for effectively through a number of blood tests and a biopsy. 2. Food allergies can be…
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