Dietary treatment for Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EO) was shown to be relevant when a fully hydrolysed formula produced improvement in around 90% of cases. With that realization of an allergy mechanism the six-food elimination diet (SFED) was used. This produced an efficacy of 70%. The shift to the SFED still implies that many foods are suspect, and also suggests that dietary treatment for EO is the same for everyone. Other research has reported that the improvement can be equally verified from … [Read more...]
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Supersensitivity in Food Sensitive People
When I was growing up I suppose I was like most people. I thought the amount of light, noise, smell, touch, and taste that I find acceptable was much the same as everybody else’s. Perhaps, with a dietitian’s interest in food, I did acknowledge that there were people we described as having a “cast iron stomach” and at the other end of the spectrum those who were food gourmets. However, when I began working with a low chemical diet I met people with a wide variety of sensitivity to all sensory … [Read more...]
Children eating well is not easy
There are many achievements expected with introduction of solids. These include that the child will thrive nutritionally, that different aspects of food (tastes, scratchiness, lumpiness, temperatures) will be managed, that the child will not be a fussy eater, that the child will not fail to thrive nor will be obese, that allergic symptoms will be prevented, or managed if present, that the child will manage to eat in different social situations, that the child will be able to “get his tongue … [Read more...]
The Family Sensitivity History: a surprising part of planning your elimination diet
Most people think that the best way to plan your elimination diet is to use lists from a trusted source. But that is not all you can use. An important resource lies in what you can find out from your own family. You may get information that helps you decide what main foods you should reduce or minimise from the beginning. If you or your brothers or sisters, or your parents’ generation, had trouble with dairy in infancy then it makes sense that you should minimise dairy. But if no-one in the … [Read more...]
Eczema happening within minutes
Question: If I eat a food and I get itchy within a few minutes, is that a reaction and is that food possibly an offender? Joan, thank you so much for your articles. I am in the middle of an elimination diet now for my eczema and am worried about the reintroduction phase. My eczema, which is mostly on my chin, is not yet healed (but is much better). Dear Lauren, Investigating your diet means lots of thinking about all the possible happenings. Following are some: Any symptoms that happen … [Read more...]
Symptoms food sensitive people may have
We know what symptoms food sensitive people get from hearing about the symptoms that go away when they go on the low chemical diet, and, importantly, come back when they have foods that cause their reactions. Many food sensitive people have more than one symptom, and their immediate family may have the same or other symptoms. Following is a list of the many symptoms grouped in different ways of thinking about them:- Food sensitivity symptoms may be two types of physical symptoms. Allergy … [Read more...]
It is frustrating when your child refuses food just because you bought a different brand!
Managing diet investigation in ADHD kids has to include understanding of just how fussy they are! Many ADHD kids are supersensitive to food. Parents report them as supersensitive to tastes so they just know if you have bought a different brand of some food; or they are supersensitive to smells saying they won't eat some food as it "smells yuk"; or texture saying it is "too scratchy"; or temperature, even colour, saying it is "not the same"! What can parents do? They can note just which aspect of … [Read more...]