Action Against Allergy Parents' Workshops

ONLINE WORKSHOP FORUM FOR PARENTS OF ALLERGIC CHILDREN

Action Against Allergy has teamed up with the online health information service www.talkallergy.com, in collaboration with NHS Choices (www.NHS.co.uk) to sponsor an online workshop for parents of allergic children.

For one week, beginning Friday February 18, parents needing advice on how to manage their children’s food allergies will be able to post their questions in the forum and get expert answers and advice from leading paediatric specialist doctors and nurses from the King’s College London Allergy Academy - an educational initiative committed to providing education in the field of allergy to patients and their families as well as health care professionals.

Leading the medical team will be Dr Adam Fox, paediatric allergy consultant, with Dr Helen Brough, clinical lecturer in paediatric allergy; Hasita Prinja, specialist paediatric allergy dietitian, and paediatric allergy registrar Sian Ludman. They are all with the allergy team at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

The workshop forum is free to access after registering as a member on www.talkallergy.com or any of its sister sites. Parents’ questions and the experts’ answers given will be available for all site visitors to view during the week and once it has closed.

Children’s food allergies – how to manage them at home and at school

National charity Action Against Allergy (AAA) will hold a Workshop for Parents of Allergic Children at Olympia on Sunday May 8, in co-operation with the Allergy & Gluten Free Show. Following the success of AAA workshops held at last year’s Show this offers parents a new opportunity to meet the experts face to face and seek an answer to their own specific questions

The workshop will focus on how to manage children’s food allergies at home and at school. The problems arising from peanut allergy and other nut allergies are well known, but children are allergic or intolerant to a wide variety of foods as well and the session will be equally relevant to them.

Parents will hear a talk by a leading specialist who describes what parents need to know about food allergy, the best approach to allergy management and the latest information about treatments. This will be followed by an interactive discussion with a clinical nurse specialist, giving parents the chance to raise their own particular worries. The workshop will be rounded off with a general Q&A session and a workpack of useful information will be provided to each parent.

The AAA Parents’ Workshops will be free to attend but pre-registration is essential. Please note that they are for adults only, not accompanied by babies or children.

AAA Parents’ Workshop : Sunday May 8
10.30 a.m to 12 noon Check in from 10 a.m.
Dr Helen Brough, Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Allergy, Children’s Allergy Service, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Patricia Kane, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Children’s Allergy Service, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

To register go to www.allergyshow.co.uk .