Even the smell of food can bring on a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction.
The 11-year-old was rushed to A&E after his lips started to swell.
Elizabeth Perkins, 30, suffers from a severe allergy to artificial sweeteners aspartame and asphetame.
“Short of taking them a doctor’s note, telling them my allergy is real, I’m not sure what to do.”
The new legislation is set to be introduced by 2021.
"It looked like she had been burnt, it looked like scolds.”
“I feel really sad when I see stories like this,” a doctor tells Yahoo UK.
"I feel like I failed her."
"It’s like I’m a prisoner in my own skin."
"Mothers' perceptions of their newborns' adverse reactions to food appears to factor into how long they breastfeed."
A woman who is "allergic to winter" has to wear a face mask whenever she goes outside in case a slight drop in temperature causes a fatal reaction. Max Fisher, 23, suffers from cold-induced urticaria which can kill sufferers in extreme
His family was cooking cod on New Year's Day.
Initially, she dismissed the reaction as a food allergy, but years of research finally lead to the answers she was looking for: Essential cold urticaria.
A student claims a severe allergic reaction to hair dye caused her head to nearly double in size.
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The life-threatening symptoms you need to look out for.
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Fifteen-year-old Alexi Stafford died less than an hour and a half after mistakenly ingesting a cookie containing peanuts.
Approximately 10 million people in the UK suffer from hay fever.
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Waitrose is recalling packs of peanuts and raisins over fears that they could contain potentially deadly other types of nut. The company is warning that some packs of its Lovelife Peanuts & Raisins contain the wrong product mix, posing a
A 14-year-old boy from Cardiff has died on holiday in Thailand after suffering a severe allergic reaction to cashew nuts.
Jamie's Italian - Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurant chain - has been fined £8,500 after one branch served wheat pasta to a woman who had told three members of staff that she had a wheat allergy. She was violently sick after visiting
With hayfever season well under way, motorists are being warned about the dangerous effects that medication can have on driving ability. With one in five people in the UK suffering from the allergy, road safety organisation and breakdown cover
If you suffer with an allergy, you're not alone. Half the British population now has at least one allergy, with the most common complaint being hay fever, say researchers - and it looks set to get worse. An estimated 15 million people in the