Understanding childhood food allergies

Last Thursday (September 11) Allergy UK ran a GP masterclass looking at the management of paediatric food allergies in general practice. The informative and quick-paced morning masterclass featured 4 clinical talks on various topics related to food allergies and the implications for general practice. It started with an overview by Dr Adam Fox on ‘The Allergic March & the Development of Food Allergies’. An informative and discursive talk, he considered everything from Pharaoh Menes’ death by a wasp sting (although the hieroglyphic for wasp and hippopotamus is the same, making verification somewhat difficult, he joked) to Dr John Bostock’s first