Allergies

Environment Technology

‘It’s one of the great mysteries of our time’: why extreme food allergies are on the rise – and what we can do about them

When five-year-old Benedict Blythe woke up on the morning of 1 December 2021, he was excited that Christmas was coming. He came downstairs to open…

Environment Technology

When Theresa MacPhail was four, her brother was killed in an accident. When she was 14, her mother died in a car crash. And when…

Environment Science Technology

Sharon calls herself a universal reactor. In the 1990s, she became allergic to the world, to the mould colonising her home and the paint coating…