HOW TO DETECT AND TREAT FOOD INTOLERANCE
There are no medical tests to detect this kind of intolerance. The only method of detection is exclusion dieting, leaving out foods and reintroducing them systematically, while monitoring symptoms. Almost any food can cause intolerance but the most common culprits are also those which often cause allergy. Why this should be so is not understood.
Some people seem to be intolerant to specific groups of foods. Some people do not tolerate proteins (for instance, meat and poultry) but have no problem with other types of food. Other people find, by contrast, that they do not tolerate fruit and vegetables well, but tolerate proteins or grains better.
Most people with food intolerance are sensitive to only one, or a tiny number of foods, and find that their problems can be resolved by avoiding those foods. Sometimes it can be something as simple as leaving out tea, coffee, chocolate, monosodium glutamate, alcohol or sugar. People with multiple food sensitivities often find that totally excluding their main troublemakers helps their overall tolerance level and they react less severely to foods that sometimes upset them. The ‘load factor’ that applies to chemical sensitivity appears to operate with food intolerance as well.
The only treatment for this type of food intolerance is managing your diet with the aim of reducing or totally avoiding the foods upset you. Advice on managing diets is given below. Some people are also helped by high doses of vitamins and minerals, especially if they are also chemically sensitive. Again, why this should be so is not known. Some people respond to neutralisation – a form of desensitisation.
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