Food-allergy knowledge you can reuse
Evidence-led explainers for the questions shared across food allergies. Allergen hubs link here instead of repeating the same general guidance.
How food allergy works
Labels and food information
Eating safely
Allergen cross-contact in kitchens
How allergen protein moves through kitchens, equipment, oils and surfaces, with practical questions that reveal risk.
General food-allergy guideEating out with food allergy
Practical ways to assess restaurants, takeaways, delivery food, buffets and changing allergen information.
Reactions and emergencies
Recognising anaphylaxis
How to recognise serious airway, breathing or circulation problems and why a skin rash is not required.
General food-allergy guideAdrenaline and food-allergy emergencies
What adrenaline does, why antihistamines have a different job and what emergency guidance says to do.
Diagnosis and testing
How food allergy is diagnosed
Why a careful clinical history comes before testing and how specialists combine evidence to reach a diagnosis.
General food-allergy guideSkin-prick, blood and component allergy tests
What common allergy tests measure, what their results cannot prove and why context matters.
General food-allergy guideOral food challenges and unproven intolerance tests
Why supervised oral food challenge can resolve uncertainty and why attractive commercial tests may mislead.
Travel and independence
Treatment and research
Living well
Food-allergy anxiety and quality of life
How useful vigilance can become exhausting, and why good allergy care should make life larger rather than smaller.
General food-allergy guideChildren, schools and food allergy
Practical issues around school systems, parties, adolescence, independence, friendships and family life.
Why allergy develops
Why food allergies develop
An evidence-led guide to atopy, eczema, the skin barrier, oral tolerance and why one person develops allergy.
General food-allergy guideMicrobiome, environment and food allergy
What researchers are learning about microbes, antibiotics, pollution and barrier health — without promising cures.
General food-allergy guideCan food allergy be prevented?
What prevention research can and cannot currently tell families, including limits on extrapolating peanut evidence.
Exposure questions
Food allergy: contact, smell and kissing
How skin contact, eyes, airborne food protein, shared utensils and kissing create different exposure questions.
General food-allergy guideCommon food-allergy myths
A careful look at recurring myths about severity, trace exposure, organic food, adrenaline and accidental tolerance.
Practical living
Shopping and checking food information
How to read the current packet, handle online information and product changes, and ask useful questions.
General food-allergy guideEveryday food-allergy checklist
Repeatable habits for home, work, medicines, emergency plans, evidence, recalls and the people around you.