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3 STAGE OF ELIMINATION DIET: FEELING WORSE, THEN MUCH BETTER
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Once you have felt consistently better for three or four days then you should start the reintroduction phase. Don’t delay doing this. Write down exactlv how you feel at this point – it may be useful and encouraging to refer back to this later if you suffer a lot of reactions during food testing.
Feeling much bettei- quite quickly
This can happen, especially in children and young people – they seem to miss out on the withdrawal symptoms. Go on to the reintroduction phase.
Feeling much better, but with one or two lingering symptoms It looks as if you have cut out your main offending foods, but are still eating something that is a problem (assuming that you have ruled out all other problems, such as candidiasis, airborne allergens, hyperventilation and environmental chemicals. Think again about your previous eating habits – is there anything you used to eat quite frequently and are still eating? Cut all these out.
If your symptoms clear, then go on to the reintroduction phase immediately. If they don’t, then the best option is to go on to a full ‘rare-food diet’, only eating foods that you have never eaten before.
If the remaining symptoms are mild, and fairly constant from day to day, then you could go on to the reintroduction phase – you may get some sort of useful result from testing. If you can discover which foods are the main source of trouble, and establish a diet on which you are reasonably well, then you are in a good position to investigate further. It could be that the remaining symptoms are due to some other problem – see below, under Feeling about the same, for a list of possibilities.
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