If you are sensitive to many foods, or even to a small number of basic foods, it can be virtually impossible to avoid everything to which you react. If you have come through exclusion dieting and found this to be the case, do not despair. Except for some very rare individuals, it is quite possible to manage your diet and live with multiple sensitivity. Food intolerance and mild allergies respond to dietary management -eating foods seldom and in small quantities will help you to keep them in your diet and maintain some kind of balance.

With food intolerance and mild allergy, the severity of reactions often declines markedly if you do not eat a food constantly or in large quantities. The body seems able to build up a certain level of tolerance. Therefore, a doctor may recommend that you keep a food to which you are sensitive in your diet, but eat it in moderation.

You may also be recommended to leave a food out for a long time -say, a few months or even a year – and then try it again, even if you had severe reactions to it on testing. (Doctors are only likely to recommend this where you have food intolerance rather than allergy.) The reason for trying this is that many people find that they regain tolerance for a food to which they been sensitive after leaving it out for a long time. You can then include the food in your diet, but again eating it in moderation and at intervals.

A rotation diet will also help to maintain the body’s level of tolerance to foods, and to prevent you developing new sensitivities.

*128\117\8*