Anaphylaxis

A short article on curing nosebleeds. Nosebleeds can be caused by an allergy or by a sudden impact on the nose. There is not much you can do to stop them occurring, but there is a routine you can follow to help cure one once it happens. First thing to do is to sit the patient down and lean their head forward to help reduce the blood pressure and to stop blood running into the mouth. To further reduce blood flow you might like to try placing something cold on the back of the patients neck. Next tell the patient to breath through their mouth and not to swallow, sniff, spit or cough, pinch the two nostrils together just below the bridge with index finger ...  Read the complete review

Question: which of the following products contain nuts? Jelly Babies, Ice Cream, Pasta, chocolate bars, loaf of bread, fish fingers, biscuits, tikka chicken masala, pizza, honey nut loops. It isn’t meant to be a trick question, but the only one, which doesn’t, is Honey Nut Loops. All of the others stand a good chance of containing within their ingredients a little label that says “may contain traces of nuts”. What this means is that although nuts aren’t part of the ingredients they were made on the same production line as another product which did contain nuts. So what? Does it matter, well probably to you no, but ...  Read the complete review

I dread the summer for one reason - wasps! I'm not scared of them, as some people are, although I probably have more reason to be than most, since I am unfortunate enough to be severely allergic to the little blighters stings. I was lucky enough to reach my late twenties before getting my first ever wasp sting. Looking back, this was hardly surprising, since my mother suffered from the same allergy, and most of my childhood was spent avoiding anything black and yellow which buzzed through our garden or arrived uninvited at our picnics. I can remember that first sting only too well. My then boyfriend (now husband) and I had gone out somewhere. It was ...  Read the complete review