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Do I have seasonal allergies or is it the common cold?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 16:00
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Ask Ottolenghi: what can I use instead of soy?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 9 March - 08:30 · 1 minute
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Vegan products not always safe for people with dairy allergy, watchdog says
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 5 March - 00:01
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Asthma of the oesophagus: the alarming rise of a rare inflammatory condition
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 10 February - 16:00
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The pet I’ll never forget: I’m allergic to cats. But who could resist an abandoned kitten with a missing paw?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 4 December - 11:00 · 1 minute
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The Mystery of My Burning Esophagus
news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes · Wednesday, 4 October, 2023 - 09:00
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Allergies : comment se déclenche l’asthme d’orage ?
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 14 June, 2023 - 16:10
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Why don’t most foods cause allergies?
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 July, 2022 - 20:08
Spring (read: allergy) season can make it difficult to say if a runny nose is the result of pollen or a virus – so I asked experts
Ah, spring. A time of thawing and rebirth, of blooms bursting forth from frost. Days become longer, warmer and – oh no, what’s this? A tickle in your throat. Pressure building in your sinuses. A runny nose. A sneeze. Another sneeze. Was there ever a time before sneezing?
But is it allergies or a cold? Beautiful as springtime may be, the emerging greenery can also expel waves of allergens. So how can you tell if your runny nose is the result of unruly pollen or a virus? Are you infectious or is your immune system overreacting to an outside stimulus?
Continue reading...There are plenty of alternatives to soy to provide that welcome umami kick, from soy-free soy sauce to seaweed – and don’t forget multi-talented Marmite
I am vegetarian and allergic to soy. So many fabulous-looking recipes contain soy sauce, tamari or miso: do you have thoughts on possible substitutions or strategies around this?
Leslie, Las Vegas, US
Soy sauce, tamari and miso are all big flavour enhancers with tons of umami depth, so that’s what you want to aim to get into your cooking. Seeing as you’re vegetarian, though, some of the more common alternatives won’t work, because many of them contain fish: Worcestershire sauce, say, or oyster or fish sauce. That said, there are lots of vegetarian oyster and fish sauces out there these days, as well as the likes of
no soy soy sauce
and soy-free miso pastes made
from chickpeas
, for example.
Thinking beyond these kinds of “free-from” alternatives, however, you want to be looking at the likes of balsamic vinegar (as aged and rich as you can afford, ideally), tamarind paste and coconut aminos . These all have the sweet-sharp-sour combination that’s needed to hit the notes that soy, tamari and miso all strike so loudly. Molasses, too, are wonderful: date molasses, or my favourite pomegranate molasses, for example, are both good at delivering that rich, sweet-tangy depth to all sorts of dishes.
Continue reading...Food Standards Agency advises consumers with dairy and fish allergies to check labels carefully
People with dairy and fish allergies are being advised not to buy vegan products without checking the label carefully as they may contain animal products due to cross-contamination.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a campaign to make consumers aware of the dangers after research released by the regulatory body showed 62% of people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who have allergic reactions to animal-based products, or who buy for others who do, are confident that vegan products are always safe to eat.
Continue reading...The little-known digestive disease is hard to diagnose but can affect swallowing and require emergency treatment
Lisa Thornton was heavily pregnant and in her early 30s when she noticed the feeling of a blockage in her oesophagus, the muscular food pipe that connects the mouth to the stomach. “At the time, I just thought it was just the pregnancy,” says Thornton, now 50, who lives in the New Forest in Hampshire. “I thought it was everything pushing up. But a few years later, things started to get worse.”
During a Sunday roast with her family, a chunk of broccoli suddenly lodged in her throat, causing spasms that persisted for hours. Any attempts to wash it down with water failed as the fluid simply came straight back up. Thornton drove to a nearby drop-in centre, where doctors tried, without success, to free the blockage with muscle relaxants.
Continue reading...I named him Roo, welcomed his cuddles and watched him weave a trail of destruction through my flat. Even with antihistamines, the wheezing and coughing soon set in ...
It wasn’t the right time to get a cat. Not only was I in denial about a suspected animal allergy, but I was sharing a tiny rented flat in Dubai that barely had enough space for our handbags, let alone a pet. When I saw a local cat charity begging for someone to foster a three-legged kitten on Christmas Eve, however, I couldn’t resist. With so many volunteers away for the holidays, he urgently needed a place to stay. Tarmac, as they’d named him, had been found in a car park missing one of his front paws. The vets had no idea how he’d lost it, but said he’d need an operation to remove the remainder of his leg as he grew older.
The charity advertised the kitten for adoption, and in the meantime he came home with me. As a tiny, rescued kitten who had experienced trauma, he could have been shy and frightened – but he had other ideas. From the moment he came out of his carrier, he was instantly playful and he would constantly climb into my lap for cuddles. As he hopped boldly around my apartment, I renamed him Roo, which suited his curious nature and bouncy walk.
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As a science writer, I’ve spent years covering the rise of allergic conditions. Why couldn’t I figure out my own?
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Enlarge / Artist's rendering of a T cell. (credit: Getty Images )
One of the adaptive immune system’s primary jobs is to recognize foreign substances in our bodies and unceremoniously reject them by eliciting inflammation. So the fact that it lets about 100 grams of assorted foreign animal and plant proteins pass through our digestive systems every single day with nary a peep is curious—food allergies are an exception.
The most common explanation given for this “oral tolerance” is that immune cells that react to proteins in food are generated but are then preferentially killed or somehow inactivated. But most of the experiments leading to this conclusion were done with transgenic mice that have a severely depleted T cell repertoire and thus lack a normal immune response. New work published in Nature uses mice with a normal, functioning immune system to recheck this result.
The mice were reared on a gluten-free diet and then challenged with a portion of one of the gluten proteins called gliadin—a protein that is known to elicit a T cell response.
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