Here is a poem that I wrote about the amazing, the incredible, the life changing, the most excellent, FreeFrom Food Awards 2014.I stopped after the winner and four runners up. It would have been about a hundred verses long... I plan to write about my favourite bits but I have rather run out of steam because this poem on top of all that just about finished me off... You … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
Testing Protopic ointment for eczema – does it work?
PLEASE NOTE - SINCE WRITING THIS BLOG I HAVE CUT OUT PROTOPIC AND ALL TOPICAL STEROIDS AND WISH I HAD NEVER EVER USED THEM. I WENT DRUG FREE IN JAN 2019 AND AM STILL HEALNG. I QUIT PROTOPIC IN APRIL 2019. TO FIND OUT WHY PLEASE READ, "How I got hooked on drugs" here, and also Protopic Withdrawal, I have been blogging since Feb 2019 about this journey so visit the TSW tab in … [Read more...]
How to Manage Your Children’s Food Allergies
Mother of two, Stephanie Gatewood, 43, from Virginia, US, knows only too well how stressful food allergies can be. Both of her children suffer with severe peanut allergies. She has a blog called Peanut Free Parenting and has written a book called When Peanuts are Poison. Speaking about how her children’s severe peanut allergies affected family life, Stephanie says that the … [Read more...]
The secrets behind how propolis fights cold sores
What is propolis? Honeybees make propolis using resins they gather from plants. They chew the resins, drawing out beneficial plant extracts and mix them with their saliva, which they then combine with wax produced from glands on their abdomens. This results in the production of propolis, which contains a concentrated mixture of polyphenols and flavonoids.Bees use this … [Read more...]
Can you have immunotherapy if you have asthma?
For years I've been trying to get a referral for immunotherapy for my hay fever and dust mite allergy but have been told that it's not available, that I wouldn't qualify because I have asthma etc. etc. OK... but my dust allergy causes most of my asthma problems in the first place, if it was treated I might be able to throw away the asthma medication... I'm pretty sure hay … [Read more...]