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Allergies

Environmental allergies, as they are commonly known, are most often a result of a food allergy that has gone undetected for years. Some allergies are relatively simple to discover. For example, after petting the cat you develop eczema or walking in a meadow of flowers makes you sneeze. It is more difficult to detect that your mood swings, your migraines, or your child’s learning difficulties might be connected with, for example, an allergy to wheat.  Food allergies are harder to recognize because for most of us, it is common to be in contact with wheat or cow’s milk (the other most common food allergen), several times a day. 

If you have dietetically untreated food allergies, eating the offending foods can irritate the stomach, possibly resulting in increased intestinal permeability, poor nutrient absorption, and bacteria or yeast imbalances. This condition will, after some time, lead to candidosis. When poorly digested food and pathogens enter the blood stream, the body may respond by mounting an immune response against these ‘foreign’ particles. The result is chronic, systemic inflammation, perhaps eventually evolving into an autoimmune disease. Identifying food allergies and treating the bacterial imbalance in the intestines should be the first steps when dealing with any autoimmune condition.

The only real treatment and the best diagnostic tool for food allergies is strict elimination of the problem-causing agent. The improvements in health after two to three months on an elimination diet plan supports diagnoses. Most individuals with this type of food allergy have to strictly follow their diet but some can later tolerate what is referred to as a rotation diet.  If children are diagnosed and treated early with an elimination diet plan, it is possible that they will outgrow the problems.

My recommendations 

• If dealing with unexplained chronic illness, disease, and/or a chronic autoimmune condition, try eliminating the most common food allergens for a few weeks. 
• Remove all food you need or want to eliminate from the kitchen and house and carefully read all the labels on the new food you will be purchasing.
• If possible, involve friends and family (especially when a child is on the elimination diet it is best if the whole family eats the same at home). No need to worry - the elimination of cow’s milk or wheat can only help everyone’s health, take it as a cleansing or reduction regime.