Food Allergies: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Relieving Your Food Allergies - Softcover

Walsh, William E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047138268X ISBN 13: 9780471382683

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2000

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I wholeheartedly recommend Food Allergies.
--Christopher M. Foley, M.D.

""A powerful key to health. Dr. Walsh's principles have revolutionized my personal health.""
--Margaret L. Williams, D.C.

""The information in this book demystifies food and chemical allergies and gives patients courage.""
--Loren C. Stockton, D.C.

""This book will help many people with symptoms and discomforts they have had for a long time.""
--Walid A. Mikhail, M.D.

Food allergies can be subtle, insidious, and dangerous. Every year millions of people suffer from migraine headaches, persistent coughs, sore throats, eczema, abdominal discomfort, tiredness, and irritability-and don't realize that their symptoms come from the food they eat. This book-the first comprehensive book on food allergies written by a noted allergist-helps us understand how different foods cause pain and discomfort and tells us how to identify the foods that have been afflicting us-so we can avoid them before the symptoms strike. In Food Allergies, Dr. William Walsh shares his extensive knowledge about the cause of food allergies, which foods and chemicals to avoid, and, ultimately, which foods will help you feel your very best. Filled with dozens of enlightening case studies and engaging writing, this unique guide offers a detailed, easy-to-follow diet tailored for adults and children who may be prone to allergies. It also includes clinically tested plans for cooking and advice on how to avoid troublesome foods at the store and when eating out.

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WILLIAM E. WALSH, M.D., is a consulting allergist with over twenty years of experience in diagnosing and treating food allergies. A former fellow at the Mayo Clinic, a diplomate of the American Board of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and a fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Dr. Walsh appears frequently as an allergy specialist on radio and television.

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"I wholeheartedly recommend Food Allergies."
—Christopher M. Foley, M.D.

"A powerful key to health. Dr. Walsh’s principles have revolutionized my personal health."
—Margaret L. Williams, D.C.

"The information in this book demystifies food and chemical allergies and gives patients courage."
—Loren C. Stockton, D.C.

"This book will help many people with symptoms and discomforts they have had for a long time."
—Walid A. Mikhail, M.D.

Food allergies can be subtle, insidious, and dangerous. Every year millions of people suffer from migraine headaches, persistent coughs, sore throats, eczema, abdominal discomfort, tiredness, and irritability–and don’t realize that their symptoms come from the food they eat. This book–the first comprehensive book on food allergies written by a noted allergist–helps us understand how different foods cause pain and discomfort and tells us how to identify the foods that have been afflicting us–so we can avoid them before the symptoms strike. In Food Allergies, Dr. William Walsh shares his extensive knowledge about the cause of food allergies, which foods and chemicals to avoid, and, ultimately, which foods will help you feel your very best. Filled with dozens of enlightening case studies and engaging writing, this unique guide offers a detailed, easy-to-follow diet tailored for adults and children who may be prone to allergies. It also includes clinically tested plans for cooking and advice on how to avoid troublesome foods at the store and when eating out.

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Food Allergies

The Complete Guide to Understanding and Relieving Your Food AllergiesBy William E. Walsh

John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 0-471-38268-X

Chapter One

An Introduction to Food Allergy

We Begin Our Journey to Better Health

You are reading this book because you or a loved one are suffering. You suspect that foods may be part of the cause of this suffering, but you are not sure that the symptoms that plague you could arise from your diet. If they do, which foods must you avoid? I specialize in helping people who suffer from food allergy and, through this book, I will try to help you find the answers to these questions.

As to the first question-what symptoms can foods cause?-the answer is many. My food-sensitive patients suffer symptoms that you probably know are allergic, including hives, eczema, congestion, wheezing, and sneezing. Sometimes their symptoms are scary and dangerous, such as choking and fainting that may end in unconsciousness. They also suffer symptoms that you may not realize are caused by allergy, such as tiredness, poor concentration, headaches, stomach aches, diarrhea, numb areas of the body, and aching joints and muscles. If you suffer from these symptoms, I will tell you how they arise.

As we explore food allergy I will also answer the second question: Which foods cause these symptoms? By knowing which of your symptoms could be caused by foods and which foods to suspect, you can learn to live a life without pain and discomfort.

But you need more than lists of symptoms and foods to successfully treat yourself. You need to understand why food allergy exists. You should know principles of diagnosis and treatment so you can decide what actions you need to take. I will try to teach you this.

Understanding and treating food allergy are like building a house. The symptoms and suspect foods are the framing, walls, windows, and doors of the house. They need a firm foundation, or they will collapse. As you would start building a house by forming this foundation, we will begin our study of food allergy by examining general information about food allergy and some of the principles that should guide your thoughts and actions.

Once we establish this foundation, we will then look at the foods that cause allergic symptoms. Finally, we will put the roof on our study of food allergy by summarizing what we learned as we apply this knowledge to treating your food allergy.

Before going further, I should give you a word of caution to help you use this book wisely.

Don't Try to Make This Book Your Doctor

I wrote this book to tell you my methods of treating food allergy so you can apply them to your own life. I did not write it to tell you how to diagnose these illnesses without assistance. Diagnosing illness is the specialty of your primary care professional. Let him or her help you diagnose your illness.

In my allergy practice, I try to make sure each of my patients has a primary medical care professional who has already diagnosed allergy and excluded-as far as possible-nonallergic illness as the cause of my patients' symptoms. If you were my patient and we questioned the cause of your illness, I would send you to your primary doctor for diagnosis. Go to him or her now if there is any question about your diagnosis. If your doctor wants help in diagnosis, he or she may suggest you see a neurologist, dermatologist, or other specialist; if so, take this advice.

Maintain a Healthy Diet While You Follow My Dietary Advice

Some of the foods and beverages I ask you to avoid add no value to a healthy diet. Other foods and beverages are championed by dietary experts who teach us they are a necessary part of a healthy diet (a number of dieticians are scandalized that we ask our patients to exclude them). Excluding these foods and beverages is not fatal to a healthy diet. There are plenty of healthy foods you can eat while you avoid the foods that cause you pain and discomfort.

In certain circumstances there is a danger you will slip into a nutritionally inadequate and therefore unhealthy diet. For instance, if you already follow a medically prescribed diet that excludes healthy foods, and you also try to exclude the foods and beverages that trouble my patients, your diet may be inadequate and your health threatened. The same threat could surface if you follow a diet not prescribed by a skilled primary care professional. If there is any chance that your diet will become inadequate and unhealthy, do not follow my diet until you consult your medical care professional or a dietician.

Illnesses Caused by Food Allergy

As you try to determine if your pain and discomfort may be caused by food allergy, ask yourself a question: Could my symptoms be caused by food allergy? To answer this question you need to know the symptoms that food allergy causes. I will try to answer this question.

It's not easy. Describing the illnesses caused by food allergy is like trying to gift-wrap an elephant-there's not enough paper to do it. What's more, even if you had enough paper, where would you start?

I know this analogy is a little ridiculous, but it does give you some idea of the dilemma I faced in writing this section. Food allergy provokes so many illnesses that to include an elaborate scientific description of all of them would have made this book so expensive the average person couldn't afford to buy it-or carry it.

Besides that, I did not write this book to help you diagnose your own illnesses. Diagnosing and treating illnesses should be left to your medical care professional, and you should not rely on any book to diagnose yourself. Your medical caregiver is trained to recognize symptoms and determine their cause. Go to her or him for help so you can avoid the mistakes that will surely result from self-diagnosis and treatment.

Instead, the purpose of this book is simply to make you more conscious of food allergy and the many illnesses associated with it, as well as to let you know that your symptoms may be caused by food allergy. In this section I want to increase your awareness of these symptoms. If you suffer from any of these symptoms, you should at least consider the possibility that they are food-related.

Direct and indirect causes. The long list of disorders for which food allergy is the direct cause is augmented by numerous illnesses for which it is indirectly responsible. Like an inconsiderate bully, allergy delights in the opportunity to further torment my patients who suffer nonallergic disease.

For instance, we often see patients with back pain caused by degenerated vertebrae or whiplash injury; food allergy greatly intensifies this pain. For patients with intestinal inflammations such as ulcerative colitis, allergy makes their bouts of painful diarrhea more offensive. In these instances, the disorder is not directly caused by food allergy; food is aggravating a preexisting condition.

In the following summary of allergic illnesses, I will not make a point of telling you which illnesses allergy affects directly and which indirectly. Since doctors are unsure of the cause of many illnesses, it is not always possible to make that distinction. However, it is important to realize that if exposure to certain foods causes discomfort and pain, you must avoid them.

Allergic Illnesses: Blood Vessels

The blood vessels are an appropriate place to begin our exploration of the illnesses brought on by food allergy....

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 047138268X
• ISBN 13: 9780471382683
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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