Severe allergic reactions rise in children in England over past five years

Severe allergic reactions English children have risen in each of the past five years!

This was reported in some of the mainstream media over the weekend, for example, in this BBC article, dated 15 November 2019 which reported that

               "The number of children being admitted to hospital in England with a severe allergic reaction has risen every year for the past five years. NHS figures show 1,746 children were treated for anaphylactic shock in 2018-19, up from 1,015 in 2013-14"

• So what has caused this near doubling of anaphylaxis in five years?

As usual, mainstream media coverage is vague about this, perhaps not surprisingly as all the accounts I have read clearly come from a single (conventional medical) source which has been meekly and obligingly regurgitated. So we are told

              "Scientists say environmental factors could be to blame for more allergies."

The accounts do not go further into this 'scientific' explanation. They do not, for instance, tell us what environmental factors have increased so much in the last 5 years to cause this near doubling of allergy, and anaphylaxis. They do, however, go on to talk about "the most common causes of severe allergic reactions" which they describe as foods such as nuts, fish and shellfish, and factors such as "wasp and bee stings, drugs and dairy products, among others".

Unfortunately, all except one of these do not cause allergy, they are merely triggers. These are the things we become allergic to, and they are all things that our body should be able routinly to cope with.

Yet did you notice that single word that was slipped into the BBC News article - "drugs"? So do pharmaceutical drugs really cause allergy, and anaphylaxis? Absolutely they do! Where is the evidence? It is contained within the literature of the conventional medical establishment itself!

I have written about the link between allergy, anaphylaxis and pharmaceutical drugs elsewhere, and I have listed the drugs that are most implicated in the allergy epidemic. They include

• painkilling drugs
• sleeping drugs
• antibiotic drugs
• anticonvulsant drugs
• insulin
• drugs that interfere with our immune system

But, most of all, it is the vaccines that conventional medicine is busy pumping into us, not least into our children, that are creating and extending the allergy epidemic.

In my article I outlined the case against vaccines, and their connection with the allergy epidemic. It is irrefutable. But it is a case conventional medicine, and their friends in the mainstream media, deny. They don't want us to hear. about it. Hence the single word reference. Which, in fact, is one word more than the media usually uses when pointing to the culpability of the pharmaceutical industry!

One recent USA study, which compared the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children, has said this about the link between serious illness and vaccines.

               "vaccinated children were 4.2 times more likely to be diagnosed on the autism spectrum or with attention deficit and hyperactivity. Learning disabilities are 5.2 times more prevalent in vaccinated children. Eczema was 2.9 times more likely. The most shocking problem facing the vaccinated children was allergic rhinitis. The study documented a 3,000% increase of allergic rhinitis in vaccinated children compared to the unvaccinated group." (My emphasis).

Which all goes to prove - we are in the midst of an allergy crisis - a crisis which is getting worse - and we are not being told what is causing it - not by our doctors - not by the NHS - not by the Department of Health - and certainly not by the mainstream media!

We are on our own out here.

If we want to stay well and keep our children safe

we are going to have to learn this for ourselves.

ALLERGY. A Tragic Death. It's in the news and is being widely discussed. Yet no-one asks what is causing the allergy epidemic

The death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse was undoubtedly a tragedy. Her story can be simply retold. She had a nut allergy, and ate an artichoke, olive and tapenade baguette at Heathrow Airport in July 2016, believing that it did not contain nuts. On the flight she went into cardiac arrest, and despite having two EpiPen injections (adrenaline) she died the same day. The baguette contained sesame seeds, an ingredient apparently not listed on the packaging.

At the recent inquest into Natasha's death the court focussed on food labelling. Pret A Manger did not label its baguettes as containing sesame seeds even though there had been six allergic reaction cases in the previous year. So the family is now campaigning for a change in food labelling laws.

An allergy is simply explained. "An allergy occurs when our immune system overreacts to what is normally a harmless substance, and triggers what, for the healthy human body, is an inappropriate and unnecessary response."

To eat a few sesame seeds, and die as a result, is most certainly "an inappropriate and unnecessary response", so whilst it is appropriate to look at food labelling, it is surely more important to discuss why Natasha's immune system, designed to defend and protect itself from attack from foreign substances, should react to a food it should have been able to eat in complete safety.

Allergy has become an epidemic in recent years. I have written about this in 'Epidemic of Chronic Disease', and in this blog from October 2012.

               "According to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology's report, published in July 2007, "the prevalence and incidence of allergic disease have markedly increased over the past 50 years", and that evidence presented to the Committee showed that "an increasing prevalence of asthma was first noted in studies of Birmingham school children, starting in the mid 1950s," and that since then "the prevalence of asthma and wheezing appears to have doubled "approximately every 14 years" until the mid 1990s. It added that the trends for other disorders such as hay fever and eczema are similar."

The 2004 report showed the scale of the "allergy epidemic" - that 39% of children and 30% of adults had been diagnosed with one or more of asthma, eczema and hayfever; and 38% of children and 45% of adults had experienced symptoms of these disorders during the preceding 12 months. Yet since then the allergy epidemic has continued to grow!

AND NO-ONE APPEARS TO WANT TO ASK THE OBVIOUS QUESTION - WHY?

In the current debate about Natasha, no one seems to want to ask why she had this allergy in the first place. The cause of her death was her allergy - it was not a sandwich containing sesame seed, this was just the trigger. After all, we should all be able to eat sesame seeds without such a reaction!

The answer is agonisingly simple. One of the main causes of the allergy epidemic, if not the main cause, are pharmaceutical drugs. This link lists the drugs known to cause allergy - including painkilling drugs, antibiotic drugs, sleeping pills, and in particular, childhood vaccinations and the plethora of drugs that 'work' by interfering with our immune system.

Does conventional medicine know about this? Apparently not, although perhaps more pertinent questions might be "does it want to know", and "does it want us to know?" This is what the NHS Choices website tell us about the cause of allergies.

               "Allergies occur when the body's immune system reacts to a particular substance as though it's harmful. It's not clear why this happens.....

               "The number of people with allergies is increasing every year. The reasons for this are not understood....."

So conventional medicine claims not to know - even when its medical textbooks, the doctors bibles like the British National Formulary and MIMS, very clearly provides the evidence for the link with pharmaceutical drugs!

There is a fundamental problem with this. If conventional medicine refuses to acknowledge the serious side effects of pharmaceutical drugs, if doctors won't tell patients about the harm they can cause, if our mainstream media decides not to ask important questions about iatrogenic disease, there will be no solution to this problem, or any other health problem. 

The campaign being waged by Natasha's parents will be doomed to failure because it does not address the most important question of all. Why was Natasha body allergic to what should be a harmless food?

Before it is possible to reach a solution for any problem it is first necessary to know what is causing the problem. Identify the wrong cause and a solution is not possible.

Allergy Treatment

And there is another problem. Where should parents be looking for safe and effective treatment for allergy? Natasha's father used two EpiPen injections, and they failed. I have written about the conventional treatment of allergy - the antihistamine drugs, the steroids, the decongestants, the 'Leukotriene receptor antagonists', and of course immunotherapy (playing around with our immune system). In the same link I have written about the homeopathic treatment of allergy, which is altogether more effective, free of serious adverse drug reactions, and safer.

Indeed, conventional medicine has proven that homeopathy is an effective treatment for allergy, and nut allergy in particular. In January 1914 the mainstream media heralded a new and successful treatment for peanut allergy. This from a BBC article.

               "Doctors say a potential treatment for peanut allergy has transformed the lives of children taking part in a large clinical trial. The 85 children had to eat peanut protein every day - initially in small doses, but ramped up during the study. The finding, published in the Lancet, suggest 84% of allergic children could eat the equivalent of five peanuts a day after six months".

As I said at the time, this is a treatment based on the principle of 'like (in small quantities) curing like'. It is, in other words, based on the principles of homeopathy! Whilst Homeopathy prefers to use peanuts in potency (in high dilution), these researchers used minute doses of peanut itself. This is probably not as safe as homeopathy, and probably produces results more slowly, but it is nonetheless homeopathy!

Yet in the years since that research was heralded as a breakthrough treatment conventional medicine  is still not using. So perhaps we should all be asking why!

But then, in matters of health, the right questions are rarely asked. This is why the allergy epidemic continues to grow, year by year, and why so many more 'Natasha's' are likely to die. Her mother was quoted as saying that "nobody else should ever have to suffer such a needless death". No-one is likely to disagree. Hopefully the food industry will eventually get its labelling right.

I am less optimistic that conventional medicine will ever admit that pharmaceutical drugs are a significant cause of allergy. And it is this that will be the basis of future tragedies.

Dust Mite Allergy. A new conventional treatment - and it's homeopathy?

The Times announced a new treatment for dust mite allergy in an article published on 11th November 2015. As the article said, this is great news as an estimated 12 million Britons are thought to struggle with ailments brought on by dust mites, with symptoms including wheezing, disturbed sleep and inflammation.

And, as the Times points out, whilst previous treatments (vaccines and antihistamine drugs) have not been very successful, the new treatment, according to clinical trials, could be "a lasting cure". Good news indeed. Apparently the new treatment begins to ease the symptoms within 3 to 4 months.

Yet the good news does not end there. The Times says that another study, published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, appears to show that it is safe for most teenagers, even for two patients with 'life-threatening allergic reactions'.

And it gets better. Other tests have apparently indicated that it could be a potent treatment for asthma, which affects 5.4 million people in Britain, and is often closely linked to dust. Indeed, the Times says, the tablet seems to be a particularly effective treatment for those whose asthma cannot be controlled with inhalers.

So what is this new treatment? It is a pill made from freeze dried dust mites, that is taken by mouth, and dissolves under the tongue. The pill has been developed by the pharmaceutical companies, Merck and ALK. It received approval from the European Medicines Agency in August 2015, and it is planned for it to go on sale in 11 countries in 2016.

So, dust mite allergy is being treated with dust mites. Why should that work so well, so safely, and apparently so cheaply too.

Well, of course, this is Homeopathy. It is based on the homeopathic principle of 

"curing like with like".

So Merck and ALK should be congratulated with coming up with such a cure for dust mite allergy. Although they, and other pharmaceutical companies, attack homeopathy regularly and relentlessly, they have at last been able to prove that homeopathy does work. They are catching up. A principle developed by Hahnemann over 220 years ago is now being utilised by the conventional medical establishment. Even the means of taking the new pill, by mouth, and dissolving under the tongue, is common homeopathic advice given to patients when taking remedies!

This is my third blog about how conventional medicine is now utilising homeopathic principles. The first, "Superbugs. Homeopathy is proven to work - treating like with like" concerned the treatment of Clostridium difficile. The second concerned a new treatment for peanut allergy, "Peanut Allergy Treatment - another success for Homeopathy".

Perhaps Merck, ALK, and other pharmaceutical companies, might like to give some credit to the homeopathic community for these new treatments.

Allergies? Why Homeopathy is better than ConMed

This article was first published on the Why Homeopathy? website

Allergies are now very common, indeed, they are at epidemic levels, levels never known before, and one of the major causes of this epidemic are conventional drugs and vaccines.

There are many substances known to trigger allergic reactions. These are called allergens, and include such everyday things as house dust mites, pollen, cat and dog fur, bee and wasp stings, feathers and a variety of foods.

Some of the most important allergic condition are Asthma, Eczema and Hay Fever. All these conditions have been linked to conventional medical drugs and vaccines.

At its most extreme, allergies can cause Anaphylaxic Shock, which can be very dangerous indeed.

Conventional Medical Treatment of Allergies

Prevention

NHS Choices says that “the best way to prevent an allergic reaction is to avoid the allergen that causes it”. Of course, this is not really prevention, as by this time the individual already has an allergy to the allergen! And as NHS Choices goes on to admit, this in itself is not easy, as allergens are usually common within the environment in which we all live. The advice given is also difficult, involving redesigning, refurbishing and redesigning your home, changing your diet, and banishing pets!

Treatment

NHS Choices admits that “medication can't cure your allergy” but only “the common symptoms of an allergy, such as a runny nose, itchy mouth and sneezing”. The drugs used by conventional medicine include:

Antihistamines which Antihistamines treat allergies by “blocking the action of the chemical histamine, which the body releases when it thinks it is under attack from an allergen”.

Decongestants which aim to relieve a blocked noses caused by hay fever, a dust allergy, or a pet allergy - but with the warning “they should not be used long-term”.

Leukotriene receptor antagonists block the effects of ‘leukotrienes’, the chemicals released during an allergic reaction that cause swelling of airways, and are used to treat asthma when other treatments have failed.

CorticoSteroid sprays which act on the nasal lining and airways to suppress inflammation, particularly nasal congestion.

Another treatment mentioned by NHS Choices is Hyposensitisation or Immunotherapy. This works by “gradually introducing more and more of the allergen into your body to make it less sensitive to it”. 

But this, of course, in Homeopathy! In other words, it is a therapy that ‘cures like with like’. The conventional medical establishment, however, refuses to admit this!

The Homeopathic Treatment of Allergies

Please click here to see the evidence basis for Homeopathy

Prevention

There is no need for Homeopathy to ‘prevent’ Allergies, except perhaps to recommend that drugs and vaccines that cause allergy, and have to a large extent given rise to the Allergy epidemic, are avoided.

Treatment

Homeopathic treatment for allergies is different to the conventional approach. It is not based on ‘avoiding’ allergens, but getting the body to react normally to them. Whilst any allergy treatment has to be individualised, and so requires the advice of a qualified Homeopath, in this scientific paper that looked at the clinical research in the homeopathic treatment of Allergies, the following remedies were highlighted:

1. *For preventive treatments in hay fever patients, Arsenicum Album was the most effective remedy, followed by Nux vomica, Pulsatilla pratensis, Gelsemium, Sarsaparilla, Silicea and Natrum muriaticum. 
2. *For Asthma patients, Arsenicum iodatum appeared most effective, followed by Lachesis, Calcarea Arsenicosa, Carbo Veg and Silicea. 
3. *And for eczema and urticaria, Mezereum was most effective, followed by Lycopodium, Sepia, Arsenicum iodatus, Calcarea Carbonica and Psorinum.

Many Homeopaths will use remedies based upon the allergen from which the patient suffers, given these in homeopathic potency, and then, as in Hyposensitisation, or Immunotherapy, begin given the allergen in tiny, but increasing doses to the patient until tolerance is achieved. By not using injections, and eginning the process with high dilutions of the allergen, the process is both safer, and more effective.

Randomised Controlled Tests (RCTs)

RCTs are the third, and decidedly the least important type of evidence supporting Homeopathy as a medical therapy.

Dana Ullman, a leading American Homeopath, has written this interesting and useful guide to scientific research into the homeopathic treatment of Allergy. The article contains full references to all the studies he mentions.

Clinical verification in homeopathy and allergic conditions. 

This paper looks at the clinical research into allergic conditions treated with homeopathy, including a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCT) for hay fever with positive conclusions, and two positive RCTs in Asthma. It also looks at cohort surveys that have shown improvement in asthma in children, and general allergic conditions and skin diseases. It also looked at some economic surveys that have shown positive results in eczema, allergy, seasonal allergic rhinitis, asthma, food allergy, and chronic allergic rhinitis, outlining some of the homeopathic remedies found to be useful in the treatment of hay fever, asthma, eczema and urticaria.

It is not surprising, then, that Homeopaths have been treating Allergies, safely and effectively, for many decades now.

Peanut Allergy Treatment - another success for Homeopathy.

The BBC may have thought that by heralding the successful treatment of peanut allergy (30th January 2014) it was promoting the success of the conventional medical establishment.

However, the BBC were actually confirming that the homeopathic principle of "Like Curing Like" works. The BBC will be bereft once it realises that it has inadvertently broken its editorial policy of opposing and attacking natural CAM therapies, like homeopathy.

"Doctors say a potential treatment for peanut allergy has transformed the lives of children taking part in a large clinical trial. The 85 children had to eat peanut protein every day - initially in small doses, but ramped up during the study. The finding, published in the Lancet, suggest 84% of allergic children could eat the equivalent of five peanuts a day after six months".

It is good to see that the conventional medical establishment has, after more than 200 years, caught up with something Homeopaths have known, and been doing for all this time.

Whilst Homeopathy prefers to use peanuts in potency (high dilution), the researchers and doctors used small doses of peanut itself - which is not as safe as homeopathy, and probably produces results more slowly,

Clinical verification in Homeopathy and allergic conditions.

Of course, neither the doctors, the researchers, the Lancet, the BBC, or indeed anyone else has mentioned that this is 'homeopathy in action'. No doubt they don't want to admit it. And no doubt they will deny any suggestion that they are using Homeopathy in this treatment.

But if an animal looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and behaves like a duck, it is probably a duck!

Likewise, a treatment that cures a condition by using a small dose of the substance that causes the condition IS homeopathy.

Yet homeopaths have long realised that by curing a peanut allergy, in this direct way, may not get to the cause of the individual's problem. As the American College of Homeopathy's website says:

"Homeopathy views nut allergy as an expression of a disturbance in the patient's immune system".

So deeper treatment is necessary - if the underlying cause of the allergy is to be cured. People with nut allergies often have allergies to many other substances, and homeopathy is adept at doing this. So whilst conventional medicine must be applauded in utilising homeopathic principles, it has a way to go before it catches up on the safety and effectiveness of homeopathy!

The Allergy Epidemic. Caused by Pharmaceutical Drugs?

Our immune system defends and protects us from attack from foreign substances, such as viruses and bacteria. It produces antibodies that seek and destroy intruders, and thereafter protects us from future attacks. An allergy occurs when the immune system overreacts to a normally harmless substance, and triggers what, for the healthy human body, is an inappropriate and unnecessary response.

Substances that trigger allergic reactions are called allergens, and these include such things as house dust mites, pollen, cat and dog fur, bee and wasp stings, feathers and a variety of foods.

The antibodies produced by the immune system can cause the release of some irritating substances, such as histamine, which produce redness, heat and swelling, leading to symptoms such as sneezing, wheezing, shortness of breath, a runny or blocked up nose, watery and bloodshot eyes, rash, itchiness, diarrhoea, and vomiting.

Food intolerance is a related but less serious condition than an allergy. The symptoms after eating the food can include headaches, muscle and joint pains, and tiredness, so whilst less serious, it remains an inappropriate response for a healthy body. The body is not responding normally, or as it should do.

Anaphylaxis, or anaphylactic shock, is a severe, potentially fatal, allergic reaction to an allergen, where there can be a sudden drop in blood pressure and the narrowing of the airways. It can be triggered by foods such as peanuts, nuts, sesame seeds, fish, shellfish, dairy products, eggs and strawberries, or by an allergic reaction to wasp or bee stings.

Allergies include a wide range of medical conditions such as Rhinitis, Hay Fever, Ezcema and Asthma. Allergy in the UK has reached epidemic proportions - according to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. Its report, published in July 2007, found that: 

          "the prevalence and incidence of allergic disease have markedly increased over the past 50 years", and that evidence presented to the Committee showed that "an increasing prevalence of asthma was first noted in studies of Birmingham school children, starting in the mid 1950s," and that since then "the prevalence of asthma and wheezing appears to have doubled "approximately every 14 years" until the mid 1990s. It added that the trends for other disorders such as hayfever and eczema are similar".

The report estimated that in 2004 the scale of the "allergy epidemic" showed that 39% of children and 30% of adults had been diagnosed with one or more of asthma, eczema and hayfever; and 38% of children and 45% of adults had experienced symptoms of these disorders during the preceding 12 months. The committee commented that the treatment of allergic disorders costs the NHS a considerable amount of money each year.

Clearly, this describes the development of another epidemic that began shortly after Big Pharma drugs became freely available through the NHS. It is known and even admitted that anaphylaxis can be triggered by certain drugs, such as penicillin. And the increase in conditions described as 'auto-immune' disease, suggests that the culpability of pharmaceutical drugs is far greater than is currently recognised.

The link between allergy and drugs is admitted and discussed in many websites, including these:

Drug Reactions and Drug Allergies.

Drug Allergies.

Allergic reactions to drugs - a common problem.

In this webpage, the implicated drugs include: antibiotics, painkillers, including aspirin, anti-inflammatory drugs, such as NSAIDs, and anti-seizure drugs.

So the issue is not whether pharmaceutical drugs cause allergies, they do. The important issues are:

1. To what extent has the Conventional Medical Establishment admitted it culpability?
2. To what extent it is the major cause of the allergy epidemic in recent decades?

Certainly, drugs are known to be causative for two of the main, and most serious allergic disease, Asthma and Ezcema.

This blog was first published as part of the author's e-book, 'Drug-Induced Illness'

The Allergy Epidemic

Our immune system defends and protects us from attack from foreign substances, such as viruses and bacteria. It produces antibodies that seek and destroy intruders, and thereafter protects us from future attacks. An allergy occurs when the immune system overreacts to a normally harmless substance, and triggers what in reality is an inappropriate and unnecessary response.

Substances that trigger allergic reactions are called allergens, and these can include such things as house dust mites, pollen, cat and dog fur, bee and wasp stings, feathers and a variety of foods.

The antibodies produced by the immune system can cause the release of some irritating substances, such as histamine, which produce redness, heat and swelling, leading to symptoms such as sneezing, wheezing, shortness of breath, a runny or blocked up nose, watery and bloodshot eyes, rash, itchiness, diarrhoea, and vomiting.

Food intolerance is less serious than an allergy. The symptoms are less serious, including headaches, muscle and joint pains, and tiredness. But it remains an inappropriate response - the body is not responding normally, or as it should do.

Anaphylaxis, or anaphylactic shock, is a severe, potentially fatal allergic reaction to an allergen, where there can be a sudden drop in blood pressure and the narrowing of the airways. It can be triggered by foods such as peanuts, nuts, sesame seeds, fish, shellfish, dairy products, eggs and strawberries, or by an allergic reaction to wasp or bee stings.

Allergies include a wide range of medical conditions such as Rhinitis, Hay Fever, and Asthma.

Allergy in the UK has reached epidemic proportions

According to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology's report, published in July 2007, "the prevalence and incidence of allergic disease have markedly increased over the past 50 years", and that evidence presented to the Committee showed that "an increasing prevalence of asthma was first noted in studies of Birmingham school children, starting in the mid 1950s," and that since then "the prevalence of asthma and wheezing appears to have doubled "approximately every 14 years" until the mid 1990s. It added that the trends for other disorders such as hay fever and eczema are similar.

The report estimated that in 2004 the scale of the "allergy epidemic" showed that 39% of children and 30% of adults had been diagnosed with one or more of asthma, eczema and hayfever; and 38% of children and 45% of adults had experienced symptoms of these disorders during the preceding 12 months. The committee commented that the treatment of allergic disorders costs the NHS a considerable amount of money each year.

Clearly, this describes the development of an epidemic that began shortly after Big Pharma drugs became freely available through the NHS. It is known and even admitted that anaphylaxis can be triggered by certain drugs, such as penicillin. And the increase in conditions described as 'auto-immune' disease, suggests that the culpability of pharmaceutical drugs is far greater than is recognised.

This article was first published for my e-book 'The Failure of Conventional Medicine'.

So Homeopathy does work!

"Homeopathy Works" was this headline in the Daily Mail. It was based on a study that found that allergy sufferers, who were given homeopathic treatment, were 10 times more likely to be cured than those given a dummy pill. The study tested 50 patients suffering from nasal allergies, who were either given a homeopathic remedy or a placebo.

Each day for four weeks patients recruited from general practices and a hospital in London measured their nasal air flow and recorded symptoms such as blocked, runny or itchy nose, sneezing or eye irritation. Both groups reported that they got better - but on average patients who received homeopathy had a 28% improvement in nasal air flow compared with 3 per cent among those in the placebo group.

The study was carried out doctors in Glasgow, led by Dr David Reilly of the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. He said the difference in results from the two treatments was statistically significant. He went on to say that this was the fourth trial carried out by his hospital, all with similar results. In addition, there were positive findings in 70 per cent of a further 180 clinical trials.

Dr Bob Leckridge, president of the Faculty of Homeopathy - the body for doctors, vets, nurses and other health professionals - said: '

This latest research builds on existing evidence that homeopathy works, something that hundreds of doctors and their patients have known for 200 years.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4040/Homeopathy-works.html#ixzz13fJfmYAO

Suffering from Allergy? Try Homeopathy

People suffering from allergy, of one form or another, are on the increase. In fact, allergies are now reaching epidemic levels, even though it is a relatively 'new' condition.

A Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee report, in 2007, said that about one-third of the UK population would develop allergy of some kind during their lifetime, and that allergic diseases had trebled during the previous 20 years.

So Dana Ullman's article on Allergy, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-ullman/homeopathy-for-allergies_b_320998.html, makes for re-assuring reading. There is a safe way of treating allergies, homeopathy, and there is an 'evidence base' supporting homeopathic treatment.

This is important for allergy sufferers, for allergic reactions can kill, and ailments like hayfever, asthma and other debilitating conditions can cause serious life-long problems.

For more information about the differences between the conventional and homeopathic treatment of allergy, click here.

To find a local homeopath, visit http://www.a-r-h.org/FindMembers/find.php.