Food Allergies: Enjoying Life with a Severe Food Allergy

With a number of well-publicised deaths caused by food-induced anaphylaxis in recent years, there is widespread recognition that preventative measures and prompt action are essential to living with this condition.

This practical guide enables suffers to take a more pro-active role in its prevention. Information on special diets, restrictive diets and eating away from home, medical terms explained in layman's language an a comprehensive list of organisations to contact for further help and support are also included.

Tanya Wright is a State Registered Dietitian and works at Stoke Mandeville Hospital as Head of Nutrition and Dietetic Services. She became interested in allergy because she has a severe allergy to milk and eggs and their derivatives. In 1994 she started up an allergy support group, which she runs in her own time from the hospital. The number of queries and letters she receives continues to increase. She is also a consultant for companies making foods for special diets, is a website dietitian specialising in food allergy and has been involved with several recipe and information books for people with special diets. Tanya is a Regional Co-ordinator for the Anaphylaxis Campaign and for the British Allergy Foundation, and is on the Medical Board of the British Allergy Foundation. She often gives lectures and talks as well as writing in several well-known publications on the subject of food-induced anaphylaxis.