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  Allergy Matters: New Approaches to Allergy Prevention And Management
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 Often the best way to treat a food allergy is to avoid the food that causes the allergy altogether. After some time you may be able to re-introduce the food to see if the symptoms return and possibly start to consume the food once again.
A period of exclusion gives your body a chance to tell you which foods are making you ill and whether you react to one food or many foods.
A total exclusion diet is often unmanageable so a partial exclusion diet will often be enough to expose problem foods. Exclusion diets should never be carried out on children unless under qualified supervision.
You must also make sure that an exclusion diet is total as even the tiniest amount of a suspect food may prevent you from finding out the true cause of your food allergy.
An exclusion diet consists of eliminating one or more foods completely from the diet for a given period of time and then reintroducing foods one at a time to check for adverse reactions.
If you are committed to the process your efforts will be rewarded with the food, or foods, that cause your problems and you can be free of the symptoms and pain.
During an exclusion diet keep asking yourself the following questions.
- Do I have an adverse reaction after eating a particular food?
- Am I addicted to a particular food?
- is there any food I crave, or cannot do without?
- Is there any food I eat every day, or many times a day?
- Am I constantly feeling exhausted and run down?
- Am I constantly hungry?
- Can I never lose weight no matter how little I eat?
- Do I have erratic mood swings?
- Do my symptoms come and go?
Keeping track of the answers to these questions, along with a food diary, will help you to pinpoint which foods are the cause of your food allergy.
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