10/10/2024
Great day yesterday at the Infant Allergy Conference in London.
I was so fortunate to be asked back a second year to talk about CMA.
The room was full of doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors and other health professionals who interacted well and asked lots of questions.
My talk focused on diagnosis of CMA in babies and how it is so important to get the history right at that first contact.
I must have repeated SYMPTOMS, SPEED AND SEVERITY many time but it stuck. So much so the facilitator of the talk mentioned it in her round up at the end of the day.
Some key points I discussed were from the UK National Allergy Strategy shown on my second page. This includes;
- How parents attend GP practice on average 5 times in some cases (15%) 10 times before diagnosis
- Parents reported improvement in how they felt listened too which I know a lot of parents struggle with.
- There are also more children being diagnosed by their GPs
I also got to meet my lovely Allergy colleagues and and made lots of new connections.
Remember if you need support get in touch, check out the freebies for CMA Symptoms and the milk ladder 🪜
