Food allergies arising as a reaction to one food product, sometimes develops into a global disaster. The symptoms of intolerance are often developing and for incomprehensible reasons, the patient ceases to understand that it specifically causes signs of food allergies, which products should be excluded, and which can be used without fears.
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Food allergy is a fairly common problem among children and adults, the intolerance of some foods is found in 1.4-1.8% of people, more often the disease occurs in women and children.
An allergic reaction is based on individual immunoconflict processes arising from contact with individual protein food components. With the first contact with the irritant in the body, specific antibodies are produced, capable of binding a specific alien protein during the repeated penetration of allergen. The formation of immune complexes and their effect on fat cells located in all organs and tissues is accompanied by the emission of inflammation mediators and the development of an allergic reaction.
Treatment of food allergies implies an exclusion of contact with an allergen. However, we rarely eat simple products, more often on our table multicomponent dishes. How to understand what kind of food component caused allergies to which products the body responded inadequately? For this there are eliminational diet and food diary.
What is an eliminational diet?
Eliminate diets — these are diagnostic diet to understand what product is allergenic. There is an opinion that food allergies can be polyvalent, that is, emerging in response to the reception of many products, but more often the patient has the intolerance to only one of them. Allergic arises not only when the specific allergen is received into the body, but when used in food, the composition of which includes a true stimulus. For example, with allergies on the egg, signs of food allergies will occur if there is a mayonnaise in the dishes, when using muffins, biscuits, ice cream.
Eliminate diet implies power with simple single-maintained products.
Before the diet is shown 1-2 day fasting on water or slightly sweetened tea, it allows you to clean the intestines, remove allergens and reduce the immunological alertness of the body. Then every 2-3 days in the diet is introduced one of the products in a specific sequence: kefir, cottage cheese, milk, cheese. In the absence of a diet reaction expands due to meat, then vegetable dishes are introduced and finally introduced.
With suspected milk intolerance, strict restriction will not need. It is enough to exclude dairy products and all products containing it, to refuse beef, as milk — Product received from cows and is possible cross allergies.
If cereals suspected as the cause of the disease, bread and flour products are excluded from the food. Other variants of the elimination diet are possible, it all depends on the characteristics of an allergic reaction.
Eliminate diet short-term, as they do not even satisfy the small share of the needs of the body in food products, vitamins and minerals. As soon as the reason for allergies is installed, the diet stops, it comes to replace full nutrition, eliminating allergen consumption.
What is a food diary and why it is needed?
Food diary — Another way to establish the cause of allergies. The diary is designed to register the results of an eliminate diet, includes a daily recording of food reception hours, a detailed description of the diet and composition of dishes, fixing the appearance of signs of food allergies and a description of allergic symptoms.
When evaluating the results of the food diary, it is taken into account that usually an allergic reaction is developing 2 hours after meals, it is less likely to have a double reaction, weak after 2 hours and a strong 4-6 hours after using an allergenic product. In the food diary it is necessary to register any deflection in a state of health, since allergies can manifest itself in different ways. Comparing the response time with the use of a certain product, it can be concluded that its effect on the patient's body.
After administration to the diet, provided for by the elimination diet of the new product, the state of health is estimated within 4 days. If, against the background of the reception of this product, signs of food allergies arose, it is excluded from meals for 2-3 days, after anemonary of allergy symptoms, re-introduced in a small dose. In exacerbation of the disease, the product is completely excluded and transferred to «Test» Other.
If within 4 days after the introduction of a new product of the allergic reaction was not observed, proceed to the introduction of the next product. All results are recorded in the food diary, based on the data obtained, it is concluded about the reason for allergies and the corresponding therapeutic diet is selected.
