Do you need a food allergy test?

Find out how to replace high allergy risk foods with low allergy risk foods?

Allergy sufferers are always living in fear with what they can and can’t eat. This is a massive problem for allergy sufferers and the alternative is wasting your hard earn money on food intolerance tests, that don’t have any scientific proof. The only allergy test that does have scientific proof is the YorkTest, which will cost you over £200. It’s very good if you can afford it, but how about if you can’t afford it? You just have to live with this constant fear, every time you eat something. That is what your doctor would say, just live with it and take antihistamines the rest of your life. If they had this problem, you would bet on your mortgage they would do something about it immediately.

Anyway, you can eliminate the most common high allergy risk foods and replace them with low allergy risk foods. You don’t need a food intolerance test, especially when most of them are unreliable. If you have the money, the YorkTest is the most reliable. Most eczema sufferers react badly to dairy products, citrus fruits, coffee, wheat, E numbers, fish, nuts and gluten. You can easily replace these foods and get a similar about of nutrients elsewhere.

You need to introduce foods like brown rice, buckwheat, non citrus
fruits and goat products to your daily diet. This takes time for your body to adjust to your new diet.

Here’s a list of foods you can substitute:

 

High Allergy
Substitute Low Allergy
Nuts Fresh Pumpkin Seeds (Not Pre-Packed)
Dairy Products Goat Products
Orange, Lemon, Pineapple Apple, Pear, Grape
Wheat Brown Rice, Oats, Buckwheat
Coffee, Tea Fruit Fusion, Herbal Tea, Fresh Juice, Smoothies
Pre-Packed Ready Made Meals Fresh Raw Salad, Vegetable Smoothie, Soup

You probably get the idea, cook all your meals from freshly prepared ingredients and try to avoid ready made meals. It will take up more time, but in the long run it is worth it. Ready made meals have many hidden ingredients that you could be allergic to. If you don't have time, you can always snap up a raw salad or vegetable smoothie very quickly. If your really short for time have a piece of fruit, wholegrain brown rice puffs cereal with goats milk.

It will be difficult at first and you might even go back to your old ways. The longer you stick with this diet, the easier you will be able to resist a nice cup of coffee in the morning!

There are many ways to realize you have a food intolerance to a
specific ingredient, and if you witness any of the following, stop eating or drinking the specific ingredient.

  • Coughing mucus after you have eaten the food, or it could be ten minutes after.
  • Sudden headaches
  • Back of throat itches or feels irritable
  • Feeling sick or stomach aches
  • Feeling itchy and a red rash appears
  • Faster heart rate
  • Puffiness of under the eyes and lips
  • Blood shot eyes
  • Difficulty breathing, asthma attack

After a few weeks you will feel the difference internally and externally. You will not feel itchy, tired and you will generally feel a lot better if you replace the high allergy risk foods with low allergy risk foods.

 

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