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Allergies

June 2024

  • Little boy eating peanuts

    Full Story
    Can we reverse the rise of food allergies? – Full Story podcast

    Jane Lee speaks to Jennifer Koplin about how factors such as genetics, migration and pets in the home are contributing to our growing understanding

May 2024

  • Cute eating

    We’re the ‘allergy capital of the world’. But we don’t know why food allergies are so common in Australian children

    Jennifer Koplin and Desalegn Markos Shifti for the Conversation
    Vitamin D levels, sanitation, diet and migration patterns are all thought to play a role. But there are trials under way to develop new strategies to prevent food allergies
  • Little boy eating peanuts

    Giving young children peanut products cuts allergy risk, study finds

    Children who eat peanut snacks regularly from four to six months onwards 71% less likely to have peanut allergy at 13, research finds
    • Eating out with a food allergy is stressful enough – but with a rare one, it’s a nightmare

      Hannah Fearn
    • One in 20 people in UK has a confirmed food allergy, study finds

    • NHS trial uses daily doses of food allergens to tackle severe reactions

April 2024

  • A boy wearing glasses holding a tissue to his nose

    Do I have seasonal allergies or is it the common cold?

    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

March 2024

  • Woman chops a bunch of celery with a knife on a kitchen counter, with a small bowl of nuts and some cauliflower on the side

    Ask Ottolenghi
    Ask Ottolenghi: alternatives to alliums

  • Umami perfection – and no soy! Felicity Cloake's marmite spaghetti.

    Ask Ottolenghi
    Ask Ottolenghi: what can I use instead of soy?

  • Vegetarian & vegan label on a tin

    Vegan products not always safe for people with dairy allergy, watchdog says

  • Dan Lepard's gluten Free multiseed and molasses loaf.

    Ask Ottolenghi
    How do I make tasty gluten-free bread?

February 2024

  • An illustration showing the oesophagus on X-ray.

    Asthma of the oesophagus: the alarming rise of a rare inflammatory condition

    The little-known digestive disease is hard to diagnose but can affect swallowing and require emergency treatment

January 2024

  • Órla Baxendale

    British dancer dies in US after eating mislabelled biscuit containing peanuts

  • An illustration of the digestive system.

    Science Weekly
    Secrets of the microbiome: the gut – podcast

  • James Atkinson pictured smiling outdoors in graduation robes

    Parents ask to meet UK delivery app bosses after son’s fatal allergic reaction

  • James Atkinson, 23, pictured outdoors smiling in graduation robes

    Man with peanut allergy died after slice of pizza, inquest in Newcastle hears

December 2023

  • A person seem from the waist down carrying two grocery bags

    Hand to mouth: Britain's food poverty crisis
    ‘Our food bills are off the scale’: how high costs affect people in England with special dietary needs

  • A free-from range in a UK supermarket

    Hand to mouth: Britain's food poverty crisis
    ‘Free-from’ food increasingly unaffordable in UK, experts warn

  • Georgina Mansergh

    Student died after allergic reaction to Dorset pub risotto, inquest hears

  • Lizzie Cernik's kitten, Roo

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: I’m allergic to cats. But who could resist an abandoned kitten with a missing paw?

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