
We have developed multiple resources to support people affected by MCAS and those caring for people with MCAS. We have guides for work, education, diet, eating out, travelling, wellbeing, symptom tracking and much more. We also have resources for Healthcare Professionals caring and treating those with MCAS.
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We understand that planning for surgery or any procedure requiring anaesthesia can feel daunting when you have MCAS. These situations can bring uncertainty - but with the right preparation and support, they can be managed safely. This guide, developed by members of our Medical Advisory Board, aims to help you feel more confident and informed about what to expect.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This workbook is to go alongside the session on Building Resilience with MCAS: Self-Care, Sleep, and Emotional Wellbeing hosted by Rebecca Fredericks.

This Seated Pilates guide has been designed especially for those living with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). Leanne is a Pain-Free Movement Specialist and Pilates Teacher with lived experience of multiple chronic illnesses. To use this guide, you might like to pick out an exercise, try it, see how you feel and then if you have no adverse effects try another.

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.

This guide is designed to support individuals in the MCAS community who are navigating the challenges of seeking a diagnosis.

Use this journal however feels right for you. There’s no pressure to write every day or find something profound. Some days, it might be a kind word from a friend, a moment of peace, or simply managing to eat a safe meal. These moments matter. You matter.

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.

Relaxing and creative activities like mandala colouring can help foster mindfulness and calm a busy mind. Why not spend some time colouring in these beautiful mandalas, drawn by talented Mast Cell Action supporter Ivy Lewis, and lose yourself in your own creative vision. As each colour fills the spaces in this book, may your heart find calm, your mind find focus, and your spirit find strength. You are your own masterpiece.

This guidance outlines how local authorities and schools can best support children who cannot attend school because of physical or mental health needs.

This guide is for those who are supporting a loved-one with MCAS, and includes advice on maintaining your own physical and emotional health, as well as practical guidance on how you can support your loved-one.

This is a seated Qigong guide which focusses on posture, Neck, Shoulders and Spine.

This guide explains the benefits of Mindfulness and breathwork and provides short exercises to try.

Lotus Flower Breathing is a gentle breathing exercise that helps to calm the nervous system and reduce stress. With thanks to Deborah Bircham from Live Well With Chronic Illness.

This simple breathing exercise has been provided to us by Deborah Bircham from Live Well With Chronic Illness.

This list can help teachers and other educators to include students living with MCAS, when planning lessons and classroom activities

This full resource pack is designed to help you share vital information about mast cell disorder with schools.

This resource has been designed to explain Mast Cell Activation Syndrome to Teachers and guide them in creating a safe environment for pupils.

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).

Knowing our values is important to help us to achieve fulfilment. Use this guide to help you plan what you need to be doing in order to feel a sense of purpose and fulfilment.

Are you meeting your Core Needs? Conducting a life audit can be an insightful exercise to help you evaluate and enhance your overall wellbeing.

This resource details some of the more common triggers of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

This resource details some of the more common symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

When we experience anxiety or stress, our muscles can tense up. Progressive muscle relaxation can help to alleviate this tension and promote a sense of calm.

This leaflet documents some of the tests that may be used to diagnose MCAS and explains how to read the results.

In the world of chronic illness, it's entirely normal to experience both 'good' and 'bad' days. However, if you overexert yourself on the good days, it can lead to an overcompensation of rest on the bad days. Trying to find a smoother path with more balance to your ‘good’ and ‘bad’ days can help to stop the cycle.

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.

This resource has been designed to provide general guidance and help students to access support as they approach further education at university.

A short mindfulness practice for those feeling illness or discomfort

A PDF to support our session on mast cells and the mind by Deborah Bircham

This PDF combines our freedom kit, MCAS for teachers pack and letter for schools in one handy download.

The resource pack to help you to share vital information about your child's mast cell disorder with school and other care-givers.

This pack can be used to share information about MCAS with teachers and other care-givers.

Use this letter template along with the Freedom kit to share your child's needs with their school or childcare provider

People with chronic illnesses like MCAS often have limited energy. In the spoon theory, by Christine Miserandino, this is represented as having 12 spoons per day. This can help to explain the impact of some everyday tasks on those living with chronic illness.

This histamine bucket is a useful visual aid in trying to understand the impact of factors contributing to histamine levels.
Blogs, books and recipes written by the low histamine chef (Yasmina Ykelenstam), a health journalist who has managed her own histamine intolerance for more than 10 years.

A form designed to help you to plan the questions you would like to ask and symptoms you would like to discuss at medical appointments.

This worksheet helps you to estimate your personal stress levels and gives you an idea of your current wellbeing.

This is a quick and easy resource designed to help you, and those that care about you, to check-in with how you are doing.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — simple, nourishing recipes designed to support digestion, comfort, and everyday enjoyment.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — evidence-informed guidance on supplements that may support wellbeing in MCAS.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — practical tips for enjoying meals out and social occasions while supporting your health and comfort.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — a gentle guide to reintroducing foods, helping you expand your diet with confidence and care.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — explore possible causes of weight changes and find balanced ways to support a healthy body and mind.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — understand the risks of malnutrition with MCAS and learn how to nourish your body safely and effectively.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — gentle, practical ideas for maintaining or gaining weight while following a low histamine approach.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series, discover nourishing, dairy-free or low dairy ways to support healthy weight gain while meeting your body’s needs.

From our Nourishing Health & Happiness with MCAS series — discover simple, gentle ways to include more fibre for better gut health and overall wellbeing.

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.

Supporting Someone with MCAS as a Dietitian is a practical resource designed to help dietitians understand and support people living with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. It offers guidance on the unique challenges that MCAS presents, particularly around food, nutrition, and symptom management.

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.

Handout on different types of water purifiers, created by Deborah Bircham

This histamine bucket theory is a useful visual aid in trying to understand the impact of factors contributing to histamine levels.

This downloadable booklet contains tips and resources for managing Mast Cell Activation Disorders on the go, wherever you go.

Are you meeting your Core Needs? Conducting a life audit can be an insightful exercise to help you evaluate and enhance your overall wellbeing.

This resource details some of the more common triggers of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

This resource details some of the more common symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

You can use this blank recipe conversion page to note down any MCAS friendly changes you have made to your favourite recipe's.

This toolkit contains information about substances in food and in the environment that can affect mast cell activity or trigger MCAS symptoms. It also includes practical advice to help you understand and avoid these triggers, as needed.

This histamine bucket is a useful visual aid in trying to understand the impact of factors contributing to histamine levels.
Blogs, books and recipes written by the low histamine chef (Yasmina Ykelenstam), a health journalist who has managed her own histamine intolerance for more than 10 years.

A medication timetable to log daily medications

A medication log blank which you can use to record medications, dosages and medication times in order to keep on track.

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.

Relaxing and creative activities like mandala colouring can help foster mindfulness and calm a busy mind. Why not spend some time colouring in these beautiful mandalas, drawn by talented Mast Cell Action supporter Ivy Lewis, and lose yourself in your own creative vision. As each colour fills the spaces in this book, may your heart find calm, your mind find focus, and your spirit find strength. You are your own masterpiece.

This guide is for those who are supporting a loved-one with MCAS, and includes advice on maintaining your own physical and emotional health, as well as practical guidance on how you can support your loved-one.

This histamine bucket theory is a useful visual aid in trying to understand the impact of factors contributing to histamine levels.

This is a seated Qigong guide which focusses on posture, Neck, Shoulders and Spine.

This guide explains the benefits of Mindfulness and breathwork and provides short exercises to try.

Lotus Flower Breathing is a gentle breathing exercise that helps to calm the nervous system and reduce stress. With thanks to Deborah Bircham from Live Well With Chronic Illness.

This simple breathing exercise has been provided to us by Deborah Bircham from Live Well With Chronic Illness.

This list can help teachers and other educators to include students living with MCAS, when planning lessons and classroom activities

This full resource pack is designed to help you share vital information about mast cell disorder with schools.

This resource has been designed to explain Mast Cell Activation Syndrome to Teachers and guide them in creating a safe environment for pupils.

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).

Knowing our values is important to help us to achieve fulfilment. Use this guide to help you plan what you need to be doing in order to feel a sense of purpose and fulfilment.

Are you meeting your Core Needs? Conducting a life audit can be an insightful exercise to help you evaluate and enhance your overall wellbeing.

This resource details some of the more common symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

When we experience anxiety or stress, our muscles can tense up. Progressive muscle relaxation can help to alleviate this tension and promote a sense of calm.

This Casper colouring page is a fun resource for children and a great way for them to express their feelings and emotions in colour.

In the world of chronic illness, it's normal to have good and not-so-good days. But if you do too much on the good days, you can end up needing extra rest on the not-so-good days. It's like a seesaw that goes up and down.

When we feel worried or are in 'fight, flight or freeze' mode, our muscles can become tight without us even realising it. To help ourselves feel calmer, we can try focusing on each group of muscles in our body.

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.

This resource has been designed to provide general guidance and help students to access support as they approach further education at university.

A short mindfulness practice for those feeling illness or discomfort

A PDF to support our session on mast cells and the mind by Deborah Bircham

This PDF combines our freedom kit, MCAS for teachers pack and letter for schools in one handy download.

The resource pack to help you to share vital information about your child's mast cell disorder with school and other care-givers.

This pack can be used to share information about MCAS with teachers and other care-givers.

Use this letter template along with the Freedom kit to share your child's needs with their school or childcare provider

When we are feeling worried or scared it can be tricky to find a way to feel better about the things that are bothering us. Download and complete this plan which you can follow when those worries feel overwhelming.

People with chronic illnesses like MCAS often have limited energy. In the spoon theory, by Christine Miserandino, this is represented as having 12 spoons per day. This can help to explain the impact of some everyday tasks on those living with chronic illness.

This histamine bucket is a useful visual aid in trying to understand the impact of factors contributing to histamine levels.

In the same way that a jigsaw is made up of lots of different pieces, each of us are madeup of lots of different parts too. This puzzle can help you to talk about MCAS being just one part of that puzzle.

An exercise to help children identify the things which make them feel good, those which don't and what helps them to feel better when things aren't going so well.

The ball of worries activity introduces children to a practical coping strategy to make thoughts and worries appear more manageable.

A leaflet designed to help support parents and carers of children living with systemic mast cell activation and MCAS. It provides suggestions for how to care for your personal wellbeing whilst caring for someone with MCAS, and shares ideas and suggestions for how to communicate and support each other as a family.

An exercise to help you find the activities that make you feel good and may help to improve your mood. Suitable for children and adults.

This worksheet helps you to estimate your personal stress levels and gives you an idea of your current wellbeing.

This is a quick and easy resource designed to help you, and those that care about you, to check-in with how you are doing.

PowerPoint slides from Lisa Maylon from Indoor Air Aware and Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness' webinar 'Mould and MCAS'.

PowerPoint slides from Dr Johanna Theron's Webinar 'Pain and MCAS'.

PowerPoint slides from Liane Reeve's Webinar 'Hypnotherapy - what is it and could it help with managing MCAS symptoms?'.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness' Webinar 'Mindful Movement for Illness'.

PowerPoint slides from Dr. Clare Ashby webinar 'Nervous System Regulation'.

PowerPoint Slides from Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness' Webinar 'Nervous System Regulation'.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's webinar 'Managing Extreme Fatigue'.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness' Webinar 'Acceptance'.

PowerPoint slides from Dr. Pramod Nair's webinar 'POTS in Children'.

PowerPoint slides from Camilla Gonzalez's webinar 'Urology and MCAS'.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's webinar 'Mast Cells and Relationships: Navigation and Education'.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness' Webinar 'Pain and the Brain'.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness webinar 'Compassion as a Healing Tool'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint Slides from Roselle O'Brien's webinar 'Treatments: Meds, Reactions, & Being Brave to Try'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's webinar 'Mast Cells and Relationships: The Garden of Self'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Rory Boggett's webinar 'EDS and MCAS from an Osteopathic perspective: How can Osteopathy help you?'.

This workbook is designed to go along with our 'Mastering Menopause: Working through Menopause for those with MCAS' webinar hosted by Rebecca Fredericks.

PowerPoint slides from Rebecca Fredericks webinar 'Building Resilience with MCAS: Self Care, Sleep and Emotional Wellbeing'.

A PDF to support our session on mast cells and the mind by Deborah Bircham

PowerPoint Slides from Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness webinar 'Gratitude' exploring what is Gratitude, and how can it help us.

PowerPoint Slides from Dr. Ashlyn Firkins webinar 'Navigating the Storm'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's talk 'Understanding Mast Cells, Autoimmune Disorders and Comorbidities'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from our Dr Anton Krige's webinar 'MCAS and Related Conditions - Special Consideration for Anaesthesia Surgery with Dr. Anton Krige'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

Use this journal however feels right for you. There’s no pressure to write every day or find something profound. Some days, it might be a kind word from a friend, a moment of peace, or simply managing to eat a safe meal. These moments matter. You matter.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's webinar 'Retrain Your Brain, Retrain Your Mast Cells'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness webinar 'Foods and Infammation'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O Brien's webinar 'Dysautonomia'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O Brien's webinar on 'Your Safe Haven at Home'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness' webinar 'MCAS and Environmental Pollution the Toxic Truth'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness' webinar on 'What is detoxing and how might it help with MCAS?'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O Brien's webinar on 'Stress and Mast Cells'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness's webinar 'Pillars of Health'.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live well with Chronic Illness's webinar 'The Neuroscience of Mindfulness', You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live well with Chronic Illness's webinar 'Understanding Lyme Disease – a general introduction to Lyme'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness' webinar 'How to Fight On in Tough Times – Tools and Tips to Foster Mental Resilience'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Vicky Pearson's webinar 'How to be Heard: Advocating for yourself within the NHS'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness webinar 'How to Sleep Well'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's webinar 'Vagus Nerves and Mast Cells'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's webinar 'Long COVID and the Mast Cell Connection'. You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

Powerpoint slides from Deborah Bircham's from Live Well with Chronic Illness' webinar 'Immune Health - How to Fight off Bugs and Viruses Naturally' . You can find the recording of this session on our YouTube channel.

A PDF to support our session on mast cells and the mind by Deborah Bircham
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