Resources
MCAS information for PIP assessors
This resource provides assessors with an overview of MCAS, how it affects daily living, and the support individuals may need, helping ensure assessments are safe, fair and based on an understanding of the condition’s fluctuating nature.
Managing MCAS At Christmas
The festive season can be joyful, but for those living with MCAS, it can also bring extra challenges - new foods, busy gatherings, extra stress and exposure to different things. This guide offers practical ideas to help you plan ahead, look after yourself, and enjoy the parts of Christmas that feel right for you.
Quick Guide to MCAS for Loved-Ones
MCAS is a complex condition and can be hard for our loved-ones to understand. However, their support is crucial for us to be able to manage our condition well. This handy Quick Guide to MCAS is designed to help your loved-one understand MCAS and begin to learn how they can help you. Share this with your loved-ones, so that they can easily understand what MCAS is.
A Quick Guide to MCAS
A handy 2 page Quick Guide to MCAS. An easy to read and understand overview of mast cells, MCAS symptoms, triggers, management, treatment and the histamine bucket theory.
Nourishing Health and Happiness with MCAS
We have worked with registered dietitian, Chloe Hall, to explore some of the most common diets followed by people with MCAS, and the key nutritional concerns that often arise. In this resource, we’ll look at practical ways to support your diet when living with MCAS.
Speaking to Your GP: Language and Tips for Effective Communication
This guide has been created to help you communicate more confidently and effectively with your GP. It offers practical language suggestions that can help you explain your symptoms, request support, and build a more collaborative relationship, whether you have a confirmed diagnosis or are still seeking answers.
Navigating Diagnosis: Support and Guidance for the MCAS Community
This guide is designed to support individuals in the MCAS community who are navigating the challenges of seeking a diagnosis.
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome - A Primary Care Guide
A primary care guide to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. It outlines common triggers, diagnostic criteria, and key symptom patterns affecting various body systems, helping clinicians recognise and differentiate MCAS from other conditions.
Arranging education for children who cannot attend school because of health needs
This guidance outlines how local authorities and schools can best support children who cannot attend school because of physical or mental health needs.
Lesson Planning Questions for MCAS Considerations
This list can help teachers and other educators to include students living with MCAS, when planning lessons and classroom activities
Supporting Safe Learning for Students with MCAS Full Pack
This full resource pack is designed to help you share vital information about mast cell disorder with schools.
Supporting Safe Learning for Students with MCAS for Teachers
This resource has been designed to explain Mast Cell Activation Syndrome to Teachers and guide them in creating a safe environment for pupils.
Supporting Safe Learning for Students with MCAS
This kit has been specially designed for parents and primary caregivers of secondary school students who have a mast cell disorder, such as Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS).
Triggers
This resource details some of the more common triggers of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.
Symptoms of MCAS
This resource details some of the more common symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.
MCAS Testing
This leaflet documents some of the tests that may be used to diagnose MCAS and explains how to read the results.
MCAS for Disability Officers
This information guide about MCAS, and the additional needs a student with MCAS may have, can be shared with Disability Officers and other members of staff at universities.
MCAS and higher education
This resource has been designed to provide general guidance and help students to access support as they approach further education at university.
Full school pack
This PDF combines our freedom kit, MCAS for teachers pack and letter for schools in one handy download.
Freedom Kit
The resource pack to help you to share vital information about your child's mast cell disorder with school and other care-givers.
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