Posted on September 15, 2009 in Diet for Diseases
30% of families in U.S. have one family member or the other who is food allergetic.Elimination diets are meant to cure food allergy.This article tries to understand further on this topic.
What is Food Allergy ?
- When a person feel uncomfortable after eating certain food item that other are comfortable with,he is said to have allergy with that food.
- Food Allergy happens because our body do not find a particular food item suitable to our immune system and rejects it.
- Food Allergy and Food Intolerance are the two main types of adverse reactions to food by our body.
What are Elimination Diets?
- These are meant to detect food allergies.
- Here eating of a particular food item is stopped for some time.
- Then its intake is resumed after a time-period.
- The response of the body is then observed to arrive at a conclusion regarding allergy.
Working of Elimination Diets:
- Elimination Diets are very rigorous diet plans.They are to be commenced and ended completely under medical supervision.
- They form the first part of the diagnosis of food allergy.
- The second part is called the challenge stage where the dieter eats the suspected food items and waits for the response of the body.
- The responses are in the form of symptoms like nausea,diarrhea,gas,headaches,asthma,hay fever etc.
- Accordingly,the health care professionals can pinpoint the allergetic food items.
Sample food items of a typical Elimination Diet are:
- Grains: buckwheat and millet products,rice and rice products, sago and tapioca.
- Proteins: Lentils,veal, chicken,rabbit,turkey,lamb, tuna, bream, dried peass,whiting.
- Fruits: Pawpaw,peeled pears and apples.
- Vegetables: Cabbage,lettuce,potatoes, sweet potatoes,celery, parsley and bamboo shoots.
- Sweeteners and Seasonings: Sunflower and Safflower oil,salt,sugar,garlic and maple syrup.
- Beverages: Fresh pear juice and water.
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