Allergy Awareness

How a single mother melted the Dragons' hearts with her frozen desserts

When Kirsty Henshaw discovered that her son had an intolerance to dairy products, she struck upon an ingenious business idea.

How a single mother melted the Dragons' hearts with her frozen desserts

At last, the lily that doesn't shed pollen... and won't stain everything it touches

Sainsbury's have come up with a solution to the plentiful pollen, which can cause terrible hayfever, by offering lilies that do not produce the pollen.

At last, the lily that doesn't shed pollen... and won't stain everything it touches

Our New Bread Maker

We recently bought a Panasonic SD254 bread maker specifically because it has a gluten-free option and it works out cheaper to make your own bread than pay the high street prices.

I did a lot of research into what type of breadmaker to buy and decided that this was the best option for us. The recipe book that comes with the bread maker gives instructions for a basic bread with an option of five flavourings (spicy fruit, date & raisin, maple & pecan, five seeds and sundried tomato & parmesan).

It also gives instructions for making ready prepared gluten free bread mixes in the bread maker, including Glutafin, Juvela, Glutano, Schar, Sainsbury's and Doves Farm. It doesn't give instructions for the Laucke bread mixes, which happen to be my personal favourite, or Carrs.

My husband (who's the bread machine fiend) came up with a really delicious gluten free brack for me and also a wheat-free malt bread (not gluten-free unfortunately because of the malt).

Sainsburys first sulphite-free wine

For the full article read here - http://www.decanter.com/news/182677.html 

Allergens In Anti-Histamines

Since I've been trying to cut out everything I'm allergic to, I figured that I ought to change my anti-histamines so that I move onto one that is safe.

Strangely I have not been able to find an over the counter anti-histamine in either tablet or liquid form that does not have some form of potential allergen in it.

All the tablets that I have looked at are lactose based. Of all the liquid anti-histamines I have looked at only one does not contain Citric Acid, instead the Piriton syrup contains methyl, ethyl and propyl hydrobenzoates (E214, E216 and E218) - known asthma triggers.

I would have thought that common sense would kick in somewhere in the pharmaceutical industry and that somebody would produced a hypo-allergenic anti-histamine!

Thankfully, my milk allergy is to the proteins in milk not the sugars. This means that I am okay with the tablets. I'll be stuffed if I have to use the liquid anti-histamines though!