Some people with multiple food sensitivity find that ‘neutralisation therapy’ – a form of desensitisation – can help them eat foods to which they react. For some people, it works very well. For others, it is less successful and still usually needs to be combined with a rotation diet. High doses of vitamins and minerals can also be of benefit.
If you are very short of money on a special diet, then use cheap, filling foods that you tolerate as much as possible. Use potato, sweet potato and unusual grains, such as buckwheat, if you can, and beans and pulses for cheap protein. Fish can also be good value if you tolerate it.
Severe reactions to a food can be relieved by a dose of alkali salts.
It is common for people with a tendency to multiple food allergy and intolerance to develop new sensitivities, especially when run down and already reacting severely to other foods or other allergens. These are often temporary intolerances and disappear with managing your diet, but they can be demoralising and confusing. You may suddenly find you react to something you thought relatively safe. Be warned that reactions like this sometimes occur during exclusion dieting. The way to cope with them is, again, to manage your diet. In particular, it is a good idea not to binge on or eat any food in excess, as this seems to pre-dis-pose to sensitivity. If you leave a food out, for instance, do not binge to compensate on its substitute or on other foods. Eating a varied diet in moderation is the best policy to keep new food sensitivities at bay. It is often very difficult on a vegetarian diet to eat a sufficiently varied range of foods.You are also much less likely to react to foods that you have eaten seldom, infrequently or never. This is why, if you have even just a few food sensitivities, you are often advised to eat unusual foods and to make your diet as wide and as varied as you can. This helps the body to maintain its level of tolerance.
Some people cross-react to foods which are closely related. A rotation diet is usually planned to avoid problems of this kind.
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