Are You Eating Too Much of a Food? You may be able to tolerate a food if you eat just a little of it. Eat smaller portions and see if things improve. If you are on a rotation diet, put the food on a longer rotation – eat it once a month for a while, [...]
There are three basic methods of detecting whether or not you have allergies, or other kinds of intolerance or sensitivity, and of identifying the cause of your reactions. These are: • analysing the pattern of your reactions to identify suspects • medical and laboratory tests • undertaking an elimination programme to see if symptoms improve [...]
If you are allergic to cotton but choose to wear it because of mulitiple allergies, or reasons of cost or practicality, certain types of cotton fabric are less troublesome than others. Cotton causes allergy when you inhale, or come into contact with, the cotton flock – the small particles given off from the fibre. You [...]
Take care with anything that a potentially sensitive baby ingests, absorbs or swallows. Only use medicines or vitamin supplements if your doctor considers them absolutely essential, and use low-allergen versions where possible. Medicines, such as anti-histamines, can be prescribed in low-sugar syrups without colourants. Some vitamin supplements are tolerated well by some highly sensitive babies [...]
Animals, birds and domestic pets are frequent causes of allergy. Specialist doctors estimate that up to a third of people with allergies are sensitive to pets”, birds and other animals. The symptoms arising are those of true allergy, especially nasal and breathing symptoms, itchy eyes, eczema and dermatitis. Some people who come into close contact [...]