British Naturopathic Association Study Day

Roger Newman Turner, ND, DO, BAc, Fellow BNA, Fellow BAcC, Senior Editor, Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project.

The Allergic Child: Naturopathic assessment and treatment.

History and prevalence of a modern malady: ‘The Allergy March’.

Allergy, sensitivity, and intolerance: Shifting the emphasis from fear to function

Adaptation, maladaptation, and ‘acquired tolerance’: A hypothesis for conservative management.

The case history – genetic, constitutional, environmental, and medical factors.

Assessment: Clinical and laboratory or bio-electronic/energetic. The Significant Diagnosis.

Treatment: Applying the Therapeutic Order. The lymphatic diatheses, dietary considerations and applied nutrition, natural antihistamines, decongestants, leukotriene inhibitors – can they help?

Structural and physical therapies.

Naturopathic medicine: Forestalling the quagmire of chronicity.

Donald Harrison, Founder and Principal of British Institute for Allergy and Environmental Therapy.

Treatment approach based on oral isopathic desensitization; the role of micro-organisms.

The British Institute for Allergy and Environmental Therapy approach to diagnosis and treatment of allergies.

Possible causes contributing to childhood allergies from infancy to teenage years.

Immunisation. Could this be a problem?

Development of pre-natal reflexes.

Inherited allergies.

Is continuing conventional medication necessary?

John Collard, Clinical Director Allergy UK.

Allergy or intolerance? Physiology, risk factors, treatments overview, dietary advice.

The terms Allergy and Intolerance are often used incorrectly. Correct assessment and nomenclature is important because the diagnosis, management and prognosis of allergy and intolerance are different. This presentation will cover the new nomenclature, a brief overview of the mechanisms of allergy and intolerance, the main allergic conditions and their co-morbidities, diagnostic tests, treatments (drugs and immunotherapy), and causes. Mention will also be made of some of the controversies around the management of allergy and intolerance.

Nigel Abraham, PhD, FIBMS, Scientific Director, Genova Diagnostics.

Recent advances in allergy and food intolerance laboratory diagnostics. Advantages and disadvantages.

Many patients present with adverse reactions to foods, but are not diagnosed with allergies by routine methods. It is now known that the underlying mechanisms for allergies are not restricted to IgE-mediated reactions alone and that other immune hypersensitivity reactions can give rise to symptoms that are commonly referred to as intolerances. Abnormal food reactions can cause many different types of overlapping symptoms, the need for clinicians to accurately identify such food reactions and to the mechanisms involved is vital, in order to provide effective management and treatment of such conditions. The selection of the right laboratory analysis from the right laboratory is paramount in this decision making process.