Food Allergies Treatment

Question by CARDIOLOGY DUDE: Wheat-Free diet?
Help me, please;

I need to go on a wheat free diet for one week to see if I’m allergic to wheat or not. And for those who bring this up: I did consider allergy testing, but I am too busy right now so I’m just trying this first.

Anyways, can I get some help with finding foods that are wheat free? Right now, I go to school and this week I’m going to science camp for 2 days, so I need to be able to identify foods with wheat so I don’t eat them. My mother has noticed that anytime I eat foods with wheat in them, I get horrible reflux and I get VERY VERY cranky. She said I should consider researching.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Answer by mustyouknow?
Save yourself the time and frustration and schedule an appoint at your local allergen specialist. Then you’ll get real answers real fast!

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Question by susieq: Is there a diet / nutrition web site were you can specify your medical problem and get a diet that will work?
Problems such as hypertension (i.e. low sodium diet), wheat allergies, need to eat fewer sweets and carbs, etc.

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Answer by Detroit B-Ball
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Question by Corina: Allergies, I’m going on a gluten/wheat free diet. HELP?
I want to go on this diet just to try see how I feel in a couple of weeks. Alot of sinus issues/head issues, muscles and joint pains ,even facial pain. What other foods and snacks can I eat as I am already thin and dont want to lose anymore weight…. Thanku for your time .

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Answer by lumoon
It might be worth while before hand to go to the doctors and get a blood test done to see if you don’t have coeliac disease. However, to answer your question a lot of the big supermarkets do free from ranges so you can still eat pasta and breads. You can also still eat potatoes, rice which will help you maintain your weight . The obvious thing you could also do increase you calories intake. The main thing is if you want to maintain your weight don’t eliminate all carbs you have to substitute with the free from ranges or other wheat free carbs. If you want to go and have a blood test then you have to keep on eating wheat. Hopes this helps .

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Question by carolpfeiffershihtzu: I have a 1 yr old Shih Tzu that has been diagnosed with kidney disease and skin allergies. What diet?
Maizie is a foster dog with New Beginnings ShihTzu Rescue and the three applicants that were lining up for her all dropped her when her diagnoses came down. I need to know what diet to pass on to anyone interested in adopting this little girl.

My vet recommended a kibble loaded with corn. Because of the severe skin allergy she cannot tolerate the corn or wheat in diets I have been offered. She will not eat the canned KD either. The info about the proper diet for the kidney disease is confusing. Some people say protein doesn’t matter and others say it does. Low potassium is important, but not listed on the food containers, or the lists I am finding on the net. Can anyone help clarify all of this information for me?

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Question by slo1970: Allergy Exclusion Diet?
My daughter is being put on an exclusion diet to check for reactions to different foods.
For two weeks she can not eat the following:
Pork
Cantaloupe
Cashews
Cottonseed
Rye
Tuna
Salmon
Black Pepper
Sesame Seeds
Soybeans
Peanuts
Lettuce
White Potatoes
I’m having a hard time coming up with foods for her to eat for lunch (at school) and dinner since cottonseed, soy, peanuts and wheat seem to be in everything. Any suggestions?
Thanks for the help.
Just wanted to clear up that she was actually tested for allergies. She showed a reaction of 3mm or higher to the foods on her exclusion diet. She was also allergic to many other foods but they were 2mm reactions or less so he didn’t add those to the list. I believe tomatoes was on the lesser reaction list. She wasn’t tested for green peppers but it might make since that she had a stomach ache when I made stuffed peppers.
Poor thing was poked 96 times with needles that day.

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Answer by psycho-cook
So you are really looking for some beef and chicken stir fries with rice as the starch? For lunch hmm? You could try some turkey lunch meat rolled around cream cheese. Sushi served without the soy sauce. Chicken and rice soup in a thermos. They do make “rice” breads for wheat intolerant people they are often available in the organic aisle. I would really recommend going to a store that specializes in organic foods, WholeFoods or Trader Joe’s have a variety of food stuffs that are missing common allergy inducing ingredients. Your local Kosher deli or Kosher department at the grocery store will also have foods with no pork and very few “additives”. What about a wrap made out of a corn tortilla chicken, cream cheese and tomatoes? A lot of health food markets also have diets printed out to help people with allergies. I would go to all of these places and see what advice and products they have to offer.

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