Food Allergy Symptoms

A food allergy diet can have two objectives: Either to help you avoiding the food that triggers the allergy, or to help you determine the food that is causing the allergy in the first place.

Low Allergen Food Allergy Diet

This is an exclusion diet. This means that it is an attempt to exclude most foods that are known to cause allergic reactions.  It does so without restricting your diet in an excessive way, it also restricts processed foods which may contain trigger foods in their composition.

The diet’s food restrictions include: yeast, eggs, milk and diary products, artificial sweeteners, margarine, coffee, tea, alcohol, chocolate, vinegar, sugar, syrup, jelly, salty snacks, wheat, oats, rye, corn, barley, food additives, coffee substitutes, smokes foods, salted foods, carbonated drinks, fizzy drinks, fermented products and citrus fruits.
 
For the majority of people this means getting rid of food that they have been accustomed to eating all their lives.  Entering a food allergy diet is a major lifestyle change.  As with any other type of diets, it is great if you follow some tips, like staying full by eating various meals a day and keeping a diet diary.

After a few days of following the diet, you may find that the reactions are starting to disappear, once they are gone, you can reintroduce food and observe if it produces any reaction.  If nothing is observed you can again eat that specific food, but if any reaction appears, it will be strictly banned from your diet.

This may sound like a slow process but it is the best way to determine any allergy and avoid the risks of severe food allergy symptoms.