Allergies & Immune Response

Each ebook collects 50 first-person accounts of one allergy or treatment. Between them they cover food allergies and the label-reading, restaurant conversations and school arrangements that come with them; peanut allergy and desensitisation; multi-food oral immunotherapy; anaphylaxis and what an emergency actually felt like; and alpha-gal syndrome, where a tick bite rewrites what a person can eat.

Other books follow seasonal allergies and years of allergy shots, pet allergies and the hard family decisions they force, latex and drug reactions, asthma tangled up with allergy, and mast cell activation syndrome, where symptoms scatter across the body and a name takes a long time to arrive. Parents and carers write here too, about packing an adrenaline pen, briefing other adults, and letting a child grow up anyway. Nothing here tells you what to do; it tells you how it went for other people. Each book downloads straight away as a PDF and an EPUB.

Where to start

• Allergen Alert: Food Allergy Living Stories — the broadest starting point.
• Epi-Saved: Anaphylaxis Survival Stories — for anyone carrying an adrenaline pen.
• Nut Case Closed: Peanut Allergy Treatment Stories — written largely by and for parents.
• Shot by Shot: Allergy Immunotherapy Stories — what years of allergy shots involve.
• Pollen Proof: Seasonal Allergy Treatment Stories — for miserable springs and summers.
• Mast Cell Mayhem: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) Living Stories — a long road to a name.