Food Allergies: enjoying life with a severe food allergy

Back

Food Allergies: enjoying life with a severe food allergy

Tanya Wright

ISBN: 9781859591468

Description:

Expert dietitian Tanya Wright combines her professional and personal experience of severe food allergy to give you a unique source of practical advice.

Food Allergies shows you how, armed with the right knowledge, it is easy to carry on enjoying life and food, despite your allergy!

This fully updated guide answers ALL your questions about food allergies, including:

* New classification of food allergy and food hypersensitivity
* Food labelling laws update
* Allergy prevention, formula milks and weaning guidelines - update and latest thinking
* New allergens such as lupin
* Special diets for particular food allergies - including up-to-date list of substitute products
* The truth about food allergy tests
* Anaphylaxis: your emergency pack
* Eating at home, away from home, at restaurants and abroad PLUS! full details of hundreds of tried and tested products and manufacturers

Contents:

• Introduction
• Food allergy tests
• Will my allergy improve over time?
• Anaphylaxis
• Your anaphylaxis contingency plan
• Anaphylaxis and going to school
• Anaphylaxis in young adults
• The dietitian’s role
• Food labelling
• Special diets
• Allergy prevention and weaning
• Cross-reactivity and food families
• Eating in
• Eating away from home
• Cross contamination
• Holidays and travelling
• Help for people on special diets
• Career and leisure choices
• Glossary

About the author:
Tanya Wright BSc (Hons) SRD is a nationally renowned expert on food allergy and intolerance. She works within the allergy clinic at Amersham Hospital, where she coordinates the allergy service for Buckinghamshire Hospitals. She is a Regional Coordinator and Adviser to the Anaphylaxis Campaign and Allergy UK.