Committee and group news
Allergy Update
Food Allergy Specialist Group
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ur Food Allergy Specialist Group (FASG) of the BDA now has 436 dietitian members. We continue to share news, clinical queries and updates through the Basecamp platform.
We have continued our programme of webinars with Isabel Skypala delivering one on oral allergy syndrome/ lipid transfer protein Hannah Hunter allergy and another by Hannah Specialist Hunter on anti-candida diets. On 3rd Dietitian in November 2021 we supported the Allergy, Guy’s Hospital, London; Allergy Academy in running the online Food Allergy Study day. Our 30 diet BSACI Dietetic sheets continue to be open access Representative to all BDA dietitians and are regularly updated. We recently released a diet sheet to support dietary management of FPIES. We have also recently reviewed and updated the BDA Food Fact sheets on food allergy. We will shortly be surveying our membership about use of ‘ladders’ for allergen introduction. As part of our group’s goal to improve
Nurses in Allergy I
Lucy Common Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist (Salford); Past Chair of the Nurse in Allergy Committee
t was fantastic to see so many nurses attending the Nurses Open Meeting at the BSACI meeting in Harrogate. There were 32 nurses attending the meeting with four joining us on Zoom. We had the opportunity to discuss the work of the group over the last year including Zoom support meetings, updating the relevant content on the BSACI website and our Year of the Nurse survey. We also had the chance to catch up with colleagues we hadn’t seen for nearly two years. It gave us all a boost to make those valuable connections and share experiences with allergy nurses in our network after such a challenging time.
We also gathered some feedback about what the BSACI nurse members wanted on the next joint WAO/BSACI conference in April 2022 in Edinburgh. We will take that forward
RECENT ACTIVITIES: • Online networking through Basecamp • Exciting programme of webinars and virtual events • New online learning modules under development education for allergy dietitians, we plan to pilot an online learning module in 2022. The first proposed topic will be “taking an allergy focussed diet history”. The module would be delivered live to up to 12 dietitians with less than 3 years’ experience in allergy. It will be set up and run by our group via the BDA. Other topics we are considering developing modules are in Allergy Prevention and Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal disorders. . Twitter: @BDA_FASG Website: www.bsaci.org/about-bsaci/bsacicouncil-and-executive/bsaci-subcommittees/ dietitian/
to the scientific committee for the conference. Thank-you to the nurses who have shown interest and applied for our vacant post on the nurses committee. We hope to appoint the newest member. Hannah Kramer has now taken over as Chair of the Committee and will make an excellent leader, taking the work and activity of the group further over the next 2 years. Our current e-mail address remains bsacinurses@gmail.com which will soon become nurses@bsaci.org to make our communications with the nurse and allied health members of BSACI even more accessible, centralised and responsive. We also have an active Twitter account so please follow us for support and information #BSACInurses www.bsaci.org/about-bsaci/bsaci-counciland-executive/bsaci-subcommittees/nursesin-allergy-group/
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