Chefs are responding by offering allergen-free options – the Modern Pantry in Clerkenwell, east London offers a gluten-free afternoon tea, while Cotto is an Italian resaurant in south-east London that caters for all allergy sufferers and includes allergen-free menus.
Only 3 million allergy sufferers are currently treated by allergen immunotherapy.
Eating that honey — just a spoonful a day — can build up immunity through gradual exposure to the local allergens that can make life so miserable for allergy sufferers.
Instead of focusing on the patient's reaction to peanuts, she says, "why not go after culprit itself--the allergens coded by peanut genes?" An allergen-free peanut would help reduce the risk of accidental ingestion by allergy sufferers.
Not dissimilarly, Nima is offering food allergy sufferers a handheld device capable of detecting dangerous gluten allergens in their food.
Also,another book talked about using plastic sheeting from the hardware store as a way to protect asthma sufferers from allergens that might aggravate their asthma.
Some allergy sufferers cannot wait.
This is great for summer allergy sufferers.
Management involves diagnosis, followed by avoidance of relevant allergens, with additional pharmacotherapy needed for most sufferers.
In some more serious cases, hay fever sufferers can develop ear infections, sinusitis and, after prolonged exposure to the allergen later in the season, pollen asthma.
