FOOD ALLERGIES: HOW TO ADD FOODS BACK IN

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Once you’ve had a blood test and eliminated the reactive foods or you have done the hypo-allergenic diet, what then?
This is the important step, especially if you have followed the hypo-allergenic diet, because you can now find out what is causing your weight gain and any other related symptoms. Take one type of food only, such as wheat, and add it back in on one day only. Then stop the wheat and monitor yourself for two or three days. Note how you are feeling: do you feel bloated, tired? Do you have joint pains? Or is there no difference? If at the end of the three days you do not feel any different, add in another type of food, such as dairy foods, for one day. If you had a reaction after adding in the wheat, take it out and wait for yourself to stabilize again before adding in the next food. Keep a note of your reaction. This is called food challenging and is a very effective way to track down your allergies.
If you are not sure of your reaction to a particular food, you can double check by taking your pulse. It has been found that food allergy can cause an increase in pulse rate.

Pulse test
1.    Count your pulse while sitting after resting for a few minutes. You can find your pulse on the thumb side of your wrist. Count how many pulses in thirty seconds and double your answer.
2.        Add in the food that you are challenging, then take your pulse ten minutes later. It is also valuable to take it again after thirty minutes and then after one hour. If you are allergic to a particular substance, your pulse rate can increase by ten points or more.

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