anaphylaxis

Support for people with life threatening allergies

A woman with a severe, life threatening allergy has started a support group to help support others affected by severe allergies, or anaphylaxis.

Katy Hannaford, from Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, has a severe drug allergy herself and is also carer to her daughter 12-year-old daughter, Alicia, who has multiple severe allergies.

Food allergies are thought to affect around 5-8% of...