Posted on November 24, 2008 in Latest News
Elimination diet testing is used to diagnose food allergies. In this testing, suspected allergy causing foods are eliminated from your diet for a certain period of time. After the allergy symptoms go away, these eliminated foods are again reintroduced gradually. If you are allergic to a certain foods, your allergic symptoms would show up while the foods are reintroduced
Which Foods are Eliminated in this Test?
Your doctor would ask you to eliminate certain suspected allergy-causing foods from your diet for about 2 weeks. Some of the common foods that cause food allergy are eggs, milk, nuts, wheat, soy, and shellfish allergies.
Steps Involved in Elimination Diet:
Here are the following steps involved in the elimination diet:
- Elimination: Your doctor would remove allergy-causing foods for a certain period of time. During this period of time, it is important for you to strictly avoid these foods by reading the labels and being cautious while eating out
- Reintroduction: After your allergy-symptoms subside, these foods are reintroduced one by one
- Diagnosis: By observing your symptoms after reintroduction of food, your doctor would be able to single out the allergy causing foods
During this test, you would be recording the foods you eat and the symptoms you experience in a food diary. Also, as elimination of foods can create a nutritional deficit, a dietician may recommend you alternative foods to eat.
Elimination diet is an easy method and can be used to diagnose food allergies effectively. However, make sure you do this in partnership with your doctor or allergist
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