When I remind food sensitive patients to reduce all toiletries containing perfumes as part of their diet investigation many mothers say “That is a problem as we need deodorants for our strong body odour!” So I found perfume-free deodorants. As well, some mothers comment on their children’s smelly poos or the strong urine odour. What is happening? It seems that food sensitive people are poor metabolisers of strong smelling compounds in their diet. This means that their body excretes them … [Read more...]
Pain as a symptom of food intolerance
We have often seen symptoms such as infant eczema, chronic daily headaches, related to diet, or heard that diet can be one of the migraine treatments, or natural remedies for ADHD and some other food intolerance symptoms. Now it is time to think of pain itself as another important symptom that changes with diet. In May 2010 I listened to a well presented talk on reflux in babies and children by a senior paediatric Gastroenterologist at RCH Brisbane. He reported that the amount of distress in … [Read more...]