Category: Food Intolerance
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Teaching Oscar (and his teachers)
Oscar starts school next year, and the thing I worry most about is the “food issue” – mostly the effects of peer pressure and how the school will manage this, including: To address the issue with Oscar we created some posters together: Always Foods, Sometimes Foods, Never or Rarely Foods and Healthy Foods to Test… Read more
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Food Re-Introduction: Our Next Steps
Since starting on food re-introduction (salicylates and glutamtes) with Oscar 2 years ago we have progressed to him being able to eat anything from the Moderate column of the RPAH Elimination Diet handbook in unlimited quantities, plus anything with amines only (he passed that challenge). Around the middle of last year we started experimenting with… Read more
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A Salicylate Challenge – Apricot or Peach Breakfast Oats
Summer would have to be the best time to do a salicylate challenge – so many delicious fruits that we have had to steer clear of are back on the menu (even if briefly). We have four stone fruit trees in our garden – apricots peaches and nectarines, as well as a mulberry tree that has… Read more
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Food Intolerance and Eczema
Eczema can be one of the symptoms of food intolerances such as Oscar’s. Oscar has often had occurrences of dry, scaly skin since he was a baby, but never really eczema – until now. Oscar started having small little flare ups of red, itchy skin about 8 weeks ago. We would treat them with QV… Read more
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Food intolerance symptoms
When Oscar was first diagnosed with food intolerances his main symptom was an inability to sleep. At 8 months old he was waking every 20 to 30 minutes all night long. Once we went on the elimination diet he started to sleep and his whole personality changed – but its impossible to say whether that… Read more