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Allergies: Answers at your Fingertips

Allergies: Answers at your Fingertips

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Q: Allergies run in my family. Is there anything I can do to prevent my children from developing allergies?

Find out the answer to this and over 330 real questions put to the Allergy UK helpline by real people about their allergies; how and why they happen, what the common triggers are and how to control your allergy symptoms effectively. Experienced paediatric physician Dr Joanne Clough, specialising in asthma and allergic diseases, offers medically accurate advice in this welcome addition to the best-selling "At Your Fingertips" series.

Questions include:

  • How do you become allergic to something?
  • I get eczema but only on my hands. Why is this?
  • Is skiing safe for an asthmatic?
  • How do I know which kind of pollen causes my hay fever?
  • Which are the commonest triggers for workplace allergies?
  • If you need a special diet because you have an allergy, can you get any help with the cost?

easily accessible sections explaining the causes and effects of different skin, food and respiratory allergies and how you can be tested for them 

comprehensive information on the common combinations of allergies and how they can affect each other

medically accurate advice about medication, trigger avoidance techniques and complementary therapies

guidance on avoiding the allergens that affect you and how to deal with allergies in the home, at work and on holiday.

Dr Joanne Clough DM, FRCA, MRCP, FRCPCH is a member of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology. She works as a Medical Adviser and acted as consultant on Food Allergies.

Allergies: Answers at your Fingertips, 375pp, £17.99

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What You Say
The small (even silly) questions you have answered are often the ones that can cause the most stress and are impossible to get answered by the medical profession
Mrs Carla Fleischer, London

...answers questions from people affected by allergies - giving factual info on eczema, dermatitis, hay fever and both mild and severe food allergies
Family Circle magazine


Muriel Simmons, Chief Executive, Allergy UK

..excellent first hand guidance
Professor Stephen Holgate, MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology, University of Southampton

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