External Links

Support documents and sites

  • Allergy UK – provide a range of information to help people who live with allergies, as well as for organisations who want to find out more about the issues that people with allergic disease face in their daily lives.
  • Anaphylaxis UK – UK-wide charity solely supporting the growing number of people at risk from severe allergic reactions.
  • Allergy Kids – Allergy Kids has created a number of adjustable allergy and medical alert wristbands for children. The colourful and eye catching designs of our wristbands help identify and alert others to children with allergies and other medical conditions.
  • Allergywise – is an online e-learning course and the easiest way to learn about anaphylaxis, the risks of severe allergies and how to manage them.
  • Children First – Great Ormond Street Hospital site for children and teenagers.
  • Emerade
  • FAAN Kids – A lot of kids have questions about food allergies.
  • Food a Fact of Life – Children’s interactive site about healthy eating.
  • NHS Choices – Growing Up – From peer pressure to sex, puberty and coming out, moving from childhood into adulthood can be a difficult time. Watch these videos of teens and pre-teens talking about the issues that have affected them.
  • Kids Health – Health site for parents, kids and teenagers.
  • My Supermarket – mySupermarket allows you to compare prices across the largest Grocery and Health and Beauty stores in the UK.
  • NHS Choices – Food allergy and intolerance myth buster – This myth buster will help you separate fact from fiction and understand the differences between a food allergy and an intolerance. Learn more about symptoms, treatment and how many people are affected.
  • NHS Choices – Food allergy or intolerance? – Around one or two people out of every 100 in the UK have a food allergy, but many more people have a food intolerance.
  • NHS Choices – Living with Allergy – Find out how to get your allergy diagnosed, how to control your symptoms, how to tell the difference between food allergy and intolerance, and much more.
  • NHS Choices – Skin Conditions – The skin is the largest organ of the body. Find out about the commonest skin conditions and hear experts and real people talk about the symptoms and treatment.
  • Nourish Interactive – Nourish Interactive is your free one stop resource for fun nutrition games for kids, interactive nutrition tools and tips for parents and health educators to use to promote healthy living for the whole family.
  • Nutrition Explorations – Fuel Up to Play 60 – the new home of all your favorite games and lessons from Nutrition Explorations!
  • Why Risk It – Are you a young adult or teen with a food allergy and at risk for anaphylaxis? Welcome to the website that can help you manage your allergies while living normally.

Allergy Apps

  • Allergy Guard Lite – Ever wonder what’s in the foods you’re eating? Populated with almost 2,000 ingredients and their relationships to over 100 food groups (allergens).
  • Allergy Tracker – Allergy Track is an easy to use app for iPhone and iPod Touch to help you keep track of your allergies.
  • Allergy Translator – Express your allergy needs in 33 languages!
  • Am I Allergic – For anyone with food allergies, our food allergen thesaurus will help you identify some of the odd ingredient names that belong to the Big 8 allergen categories.
  • Asthma Journal Pro – Many doctors recommend Asthma patients to keep a daily journal to keep track of asthma symptoms, potential triggers, and medications.
  • Don’t Eat That – Confused by food ingredient labels? Now you can check the ingredients right in the store just by entering its name. Find out if an ingredient is carcinogenic, banned in other countries, bad for kids or pregnant women, genetically modified, or causes drug interaction or allergies.
  • Zyrtec Allergy Cast – Get the allergy forecast for today and tomorrow along with the day’s top allergens.
  • FoodMaestro App – Create multiple food allergy, intolerance and diet profiles, search or scan food labels to check suitability, filter search results by sugar content, or create your shopping lists.