Nuts May Contain Nuts

A supermarket is in trouble for not saying a packet of monkey nuts contains nuts. It’s here in the Guardian.

Marks And Spencer Make Allergies Clearer

One of my problems with supermarkets and ready meals, is that you often have to turn them upside down to read the allergy information, as with Waitrose’s fish pies. Today though, I bought a newly-introduced meal of slow cooked venison in a red wine and onion sauce from Marks and Spencer.

Marks And Spencer Make Allergies Clearer

Note the blue patch on the packaging showing the allergies. It’s getting there, but the allergies could be better shown still. For this product, they are cow’s milk. I’m not sure, but I think in the past it was just milk.

Someone at Marks and Spencer, has been thinking.

I’d also see a universal word or symbol for no allergies. Or perhaps for none of the common allergies, like fish, shellfish, gluten, celery, milk, mustard, buts and wheat. But then I’ve come across or heard of people allergic to rice, soya, chickpeas and potatoes.

Am I Allergic To Coffee?

I’ve not been feeling well the last few days and it reminds me of a time about thirty years ago, when I thought I got a mouth infection from a dentist. I had a very sore mouth and ate fairly soft food for a couple of weeks.  In the end, I think the doctor gave me some antibiotics to clear it up. At the time, I also found that coffee seemed to irritate my mouth, so for twenty years or so, I never drunk coffee, until I discovered cappuccino.

My mouth now feels the same and for the last two days, I’ve stayed off the coffee and I’ve just been drinking beer, cider, milk, water and tea.

It seems to be getting better.

It’s strange that this problem has returned, but I have moved to London in the last couple of years and it so easy to get a coffee.

Is This An iBus?

This is a bus I certainly won’t get.

Is This An iBus?

As a real programmer, I’m seriously allergic to adverts an d especially Apple products.

European Union Creates An Awful Smell

Apparently, the EU is proposing to ban certain ingredients used in perfumes. It’s all here in the Mail.

If the allergy police were to ban anything, how about stopping gluten in food?

No wonder the EU is so popular with the citizens of Europe.

Allergies

This chicken Provençal from Waitrose was rather nice.

Waitrose Chicken Provencal

But why can’t we have the allergy information on the front? That way, I wouldn’t need to pick up the package and turn it over.

Incidentally, this dish has fish in it. That surprised me, but it was defined as anchovy on the packet.

On the subject of allergies, Waitrose has brought out a range of chilled foods by Heston Blumenthal. All seemed to have added gluten. A pity really, as I recently heard of a sensitive coeliac, who went to his restaurant and had no problems.

Allergic To Corned Beef

In the repeat of Dad’s Army this evening, Private Fraser.said that he got out of sevig in the vArmy, because he was allergic to corned beef.

This must be one of the first references to allergies in fiction.

I wonder why it was included

Was My Bad Tooth Causing Other Problems?

I’m still on a soft food diet, as the socket still aches slightly, but I was able to eat a piece of bread with some soup last night.

The biggest change though, is that my allergies seem to be decreasing.  That can’t be right can it? Symptoms like my sneezing and itching are getting better and when I blow my nose, it’s much dryer. Except for the slight tooth ache, I’m almost feeling normal. I’m also having to correct less spelling mistakes in my typing.

But am I bothered?  No! Of course not!

On the other hand when I was a child no-one could find what I was allergic too.  And I had rather packed and mixed up teeth, which were only sorted, when my dentist took out four pre-molars to give the others more space. Was it about the same time, that the worst of my allergic problems got a bit better. But all my records from those days have disappeared so I can never find the truth.

I’m now certain now, that some of my problems about getting back after the stroke were due to that tooth. After all I broke it about twenty years ago and it has never been good since.  One very good dentist I had sad that because of my gagging response, it would be impossible to crown.

I’ve also looked back at some of the posts of a year or so ago.

This post describes how I ended up in Addenbrooke’s with tremendous pain. They thought it was probably a blocked sinus. As they were certified clear a few months later, I suspect, as does my current dentist, that it was the tooth.

I also mused about coeliac disease and my recovery.  This post talks of another incident, where the tooth seemed to be the villain.

And this is the incident, after which I was put on Keppra. Knowing what I know now about myself and especially the trapped nerve in my neck, I suspect that it was caused more by my nerve and arm damage than the stroke.  But I’ve never had anything like another seizure since.

It’s all very strange.