Episode 3: Clinical Cases: Tanya Wright Specialist Allergy Dietitian: How eczema developed into anaphylaxis? And could this have been avoided?
When Tanya Wright went to university, she started to suffer with severe eczema all over her body. The eczema was so severe that she was hospitalised on a number of occasions in St Thomas's hospital in London for weeks at a time. Desperate to find a solution she started to remove foods from her diet at the age of 21 years old, only to find that her allergies took a nasty turn as she then went on to develop severe life threatening anaphylaxis. In this podcast she talks honestly about what she might have done differently if she'd had better knowledge. Her episode highlights how we desperately need more research in this area and how as healthcare professionals we need to be careful in advising elimination diets in patients who already have an atopic/allergic background... Tanya went on to train as a dietitian and is now one of the top allergy dietitians in the UK.