HOW THE ELIMINATION DIET WORKS


Stage I -- Two  to three-week preparation period:

Only the following are eaten for two weeks, preferably cooked 
(to help the breakdown of the lectins which also can cause a bad reaction to the gut): 

Fruit (other than citrus)
Berries (other than strawberries), 

(Beware of bananas, watermelon, melons... from personal experience I would recommend it as introduction foods to be safe. Depending on the damage to your villi)

Vegetables (other than nightshade), 
Cooked green, yellow, and orange vegetables (artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, chard, collards, lettuce, spinach, string beans, summer or winter squash,carrots etc.
  
Lamb (reportedly the safest meat).

Sweet potato is just fine. Butter and cream may be used. Butter has no protein in and cream has the minimum protein in but if you choose not to include this, then its your choice.


Some elimination diet resources name brown rice as a safe food. For me it reacted the same as gluten. Although white rices' effect was kidney pain and blood sugar symptoms.
(Every person can have a different effect; therefore listen to your own body.)


No foods on the avoid list:
http://myceliacexperience.blogspot.com/2015/04/foods-to-avoid-on-elimination-diet.html


From day 2-7you may notice your symptoms may get worse for a day or two.

From day 8-14 symptoms should go away if the right foods have been removed


Stage II -- Finding additional foods that can be tolerated:


After the 2 to 3 week anti-allergen diet (elimination diet)

Day 1:  Re-introduce food #1 (for example, dairy)
Day 2+ 3:  Stop food #1 and watch for symptoms and keep detailed notes of these symptoms. (mine was a immediate mucus attack from the milk)



Day 4:  Re-introduce food #2 (for example, wheat)
Day 5 and 6:  Stop food #2 again and watch for symptoms 

Day 7:  Re-introduce food #3

YOU GET THE PICTURE?

Do this with each new food introduced to get a thorough list of foods your body can tolerate or can not tolerate.



REMEMBER YOUR DIET DIARY!!!!This is very important!!





 Information gathered from 

Zand, Janet, L.A.c. OMD. Smart Medicine for Healthier Living.
Avery. 1999.

Adam Rindfleisch MD, MPhil and David Rakel, MD, 
Integrative Medicine Program, Dept. of Family Medicine,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Date created: July 2008




And also my own experience with food intolerance and the elimination diet. ( the best way to determine food allergies or intolerances in my opinion.)




FOODS TO AVOID ON THE ELIMINATION DIET

The most common types of elimination diet involves removing specific foods or ingredients from your diet because you and your doctor think they may becausing allergy symptoms. Common  allergy-causing foods include milk, eggs, nuts, wheat, and soy.
There are usually several steps to this diet.
1. Stop eating suspicious foods
Dairy products (lactose and casein)

 Wheat (and other gluten containing foods)

Eggs (whites particularly)

Corn

Legumes which includes  Peanuts

Shellfish 
Nightshades ( potato, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers etc) (Sweet potatoes is just fine and can be eaten instead of potatoes) (I am totally allergic to potatoes with severe stomach pain, but sweet potato is fine and I enjoy it frequently)
All citrus fruits and juices

Sugar

Chocolate

Coffee

Black tea

Alcohol

Soy

Artificial sweeteners

Yeast
If you are allergic to latex, you may also react to: 

apple, apricot, avocado, banana, carrot, celery, cherry, chestnut, coconut, fig, fish, grape, hazelnut, kiwi, mango, melon, nectarine, papaya, passion fruit, peach,
pear, pineapple, plum, potato, rye, shellfish, strawberry, tomato, wheat




My Symptoms



  • Diagnosed as colic baby
  • Scalp, ear, underarm, hands  eczema
  • Affected eyesight (near sighted)
  • Chronic ear infections
  • Chronic Mouth blisters inside (white)
  • Underarm eczema (Dermatitis Herpetiformis)
  • Sinus
  • Chronic tonsillitis
  • Always cold
  • Chronic Migraines
  • Neck spasms
  • Permanent tiredness
  • Brain fog
  • Bloating
  • IBS symptoms
  • Chronic constipation
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Stomach pain
  • Irregular menstruation plus Excessive bleeding (had a hysterectomy in 2010 )
  • Miscarriage
  • Pain in right side (appendicitis like) with reflective pain in leg (ileo cecal valve syndrome)
  • Joint pain
  • Chronic kidney infection
  • Liver problems
  • Mal nutrition
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Tingling sensation in the legs and cramps
  • Depression
  • Random heart pain
  • Shoulder pain
  • dark circles under the eyes
  • yellowish skin colour  

Elimination diet

If you’re suffering from food intolerances or sensitivities, an elimination diet could be the best way to determine what foods cause a bad reaction to your body

our gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the connection between food and body. And this huge organ system – the size of a tennis court (wow) when stretched end to end – is responsible for converting our food into chemical processes of digestion and absorption.

An elimination diet may be especially beneficial for those suffering from

http://myceliacexperience.blogspot.com/2014/02/my-symptoms.html
  • irritable bowel syndrome,
  • migraine, 
  • arthritis, both rheumatoid and osteoarthritis
  • asthma
  • high cholesterol, 
  • atherosclerosis, 
  • congestive heart failure
  • high blood pressure
  • diabetes, 
  • low blood sugar, 
  • hyper-insulinemia
    headaches, 
  • chronic fatigue,
  •  fibromyalgia, neuropathy
  • Crohn's, colitis, 
  • celiac disease (as well as sub clinical gluten sensitivity)
  • chronic candida, repeated gut pathogen infections 
  • osteoporosis,
  •  malabsorption syndromes
  • failure to thrive, 
  • obesity
  • autoimmune diseases such as hypothyroid,
  • lupus, 
  • multiple sclerosis
  • Parkinson's dementia,
  • Alzheimer's,
  • brain fogginess
  • autism, 
  • ADD/ADHD
  • seizures, 
  • epilepsy, 
  • schizophrenia 
  • hormonal imbalances including adrenal insufficiency, 
  • low testosterone, 
  • PMS.
  • cancer, several types including breast

GELATIN - MIRACLE CURE FOR JOINT PAIN.


Use 5 g gelatin (two flat teaspoon) in a quarter cup of cold (from the fridge) water.

Stir and let it stand until the morning (outside of the fridge)

The Gelatin will  turn  into jelly.

Drink the mixture on an empty stomach the next morning.
(You can add juice, honey and water mixture or mix with yogurt or sour cream. Or in any other way that you desire)

It works for people who complaines of pain in the joints, back, legs, pain in the spine, neck, etc.

Use for one month.

Repeat again in 6 months.

The gelatine restore the “lubrication” of the joints.


Why is gelatin so beneficial for the joints?

 Gelatin – a product of animal origin, is obtained in the result of processing the connective tissue of large horned livestock – tendons, bones, cartilage, collagen is actually in the purest form. It has positive effect on the state of internal fibers and small vessels.  It has two amino acids: proline and hidrosiprolin, which have a positive impact on the recovery of connective tissue. Gelatin is able to increase the growth and scope of connective tissue, which is very important in diseased joints.

Gelatin is a useful product of exceptional quality for health improvement:

– Strengthens joints and heart muscle

– Improves metabolism

– Increases mental ability

– Maintain healthy skin condition

– Gives elasticity and strength of tendons and ligaments

– Prevents the development of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis

– Leads to improved growth and structure of the hair and nails


Something I have learned on my Celiac journey - pain relief!!

For my joint pains I use casteroil.

YES CASTEROIL

Some may not believe it but it really works for me.

Try it.  You have nothing to loose!!

health dangers of bread, pastas and rice

Amazing article about how grains affect our health

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