Food Allergies: What Symptoms?
By Rodney Ford
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Food Intolerance?
Food Sensitivity?
Food Reactions?
Could food be making you ill? How can you tell? Are you troubled by: Dairy? Wheat? Gluten? Nuts? Soy? Additives? Dr Ford's 30 years experience helps you get to grips with food allergy.
Unfortunately, many doctors have little knowledge of food reactions. Often, people with unexplained symptoms are told "there's nothing wrong with you." Food allergy symptoms can be diagnosed and treated. Why wait?
For example, Katrina writes on facebook:
“I took my eldest boy (now 23 mths) to the hospital when he had problems when 4 wks old: he was failing-to-thrive (not growing) and had feeding problems. But the pediatricians at the hospital didn't believe in allergies. Two weeks later we went to see Dr Ford. It turns out that Tomasz has multiple food allergies - no wonder he screamed when feeding and wasn't putting on weight!”
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Food allergy – the concepts
Food allergy is common
Food allergy or food intolerance
Developing tolerance to foods
Common diagnostic mistakes
Food additives and hyperactivity
Chapter 2. Food allergy - the symptoms
Quick and slow onset food reactions
Symptoms are common
Death from food allergy
The Allergic March
Probiotics for the gut
Oral Allergy Syndrome
Chapter 3. Eczema – caused by food allergy
Eczema and food allergy are linked
Research evidence of eczema-food-link
What have other researchers found?
15 studies proving the food-eczema link
Gluten known to cause skin disease
Chapter 4. Gut and bowel allergy problems
Blood in stool
Pale stool
Chronic diarrhea
Constipation and soiling in children is common
Gastric Reflux – GORD/GERD
Helicobacter pylori
Chapter 5. Cow’s milk allergy | intolerance
Colic and cow’s milk
Cow’s milk Allergy
Cow’s milk free diet
Cow’s milk protein intolerance - CMPI
Dairy-free children
“Milk” formulas
What Dairy-free formulas are available for your baby?
Special low allergen “milk” formulas
Chapter 6. Egg & peanut allergy
Egg allergy
Peanut allergy
Chapter 7. Gluten sensitivity | celiac
Celiac disease
The Gluten Syndrome
Symptoms of the Gluten Syndrome
How early can you diagnose celiac disease?
Gluten-free diets
How strict gluten-free?
How long gluten free?
Chapter 8. The eClinic – on-line diagnosis and management
What is the purpose of the eClinic?
Who could be helped by the eClinic?
Can you trust Dr Ford’s opinion?
What guarantees do you have?
How best to use the eClinic?
How is your own doctor involved?
Why set up an eClinic?
Disclaimer
Chapter 9. Web links and books
Rodney Ford
Dr Rodney Ford is a paediatric gastroenterologist, allergist and nutrition consultant. He is former Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is recognized worldwide as an expert on adverse food reactions. His major area of interest is the relationship between your food and your health – good or bad. In his clinics he is constantly seeing people who are suffering from eating foods that are making them ill. He has been interested in the relationship between eczema and food allergy for a long time. More recently, he has discovered that gluten plays a large part in the patho-physiology of eczema. Dr Ford graduated with Honours from the University of New South Wales in 1974 (MB BS). He went on to study food allergy and intolerance problems in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Paediatrics (FRACP) in 1981 and was awarded his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) by the University of New South Wales in 1982 for his thesis titled Food hypersensitivity in children: diagnostic approaches to milk and egg hypersensitivity. This was regarded as a major work regarding the diagnosis of food allergies in children. Dr Ford currently runs The Children's Clinic and Allergy Centre, a busy private clinic in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has written over one hundred scientific papers, including book chapters and many books.
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Food Allergies - Rodney Ford
Food Allergies: What Symptoms?
Intolerance? Sensitivity? Reactions?
How do you recognize food allergy symptoms?
Could food be making you ill?
Dairy? Wheat? Gluten? Nuts? Soy? Shell-fish? additives?
Written to help you get to grips with food allergy
Dr Rodney Ford
MD MBBS FRACP
Copyright 2012 Dr Rodney Ford
Published by Dr Rodney Ford at Smashwords
http://www.DrRodneyFord.com
This book is not yet available in print.
Dedication: to so many of my patients
who have made this book possible.
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Smashwords Edition, License Notes
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What this book is about
This book has been written to help you get to grips with food allergy. In fact, to solve your food allergy problems, and to answer all of your questions.
The central question is: How do you recognize food allergy symptoms - could food be making you ill?
So here is a complete set of guidelines/ information to help you to get diagnosed and then manage any food allergies. I want to help you and your children get better, quickly.
Often, people with unexplained symptoms are told, hopefully, wait until you grow out of it.
However, food allergy symptoms can be immediately treated. So why wait?
For example, Katrina writes on facebook:
I took my eldest boy (now 23 mths) to the hospital when he had problems when 4 wks old: he was failing-to-thrive (not growing) and had feeding problems. But the pediatricians at the hospital didn't believe in allergies. Two weeks later we went to see Dr Ford. It turns out that Tomasz has multiple food allergies - no wonder he screamed when feeding and wasn't putting on weight!
Denise says something similar
Also most doctors say they will grow out of a food allergy by the time they are 2 or 3. Not true in my son's case, and I had to fight tooth and nail to get my son tested. The head pediatrician insisted my breast milk had no nutritional value what so ever. Turned out the mucousy poos and constant rash was caused by a dairy and egg allergy, and this was the reason why he didn't put on any weight for nearly 3 months. Luckily I stuck to breastfeeding, as it helped heal his gut along with eating the right foods. My son is now 29 months old, thriving and growing :-)
And this is what Jessica said
I love the doctors who say the little guys 'can't be allergic until they are 2-3 yrs and have lived through the different seasons.' So much for that: my son was diagnosed with a laundry list of food and environmental allergies at 10 months. My daughter's list is shorter, but she was just over 15 months. Food allergies certainly can trouble little babies.
Doctors not trained in allergy
Unfortunately, many health practitioners and specialist have had no training in allergy. Although the science of food allergy is robust, many doctors choose to not believe
in food allergy. In medicine and health care, science and facts should be the guide to diagnosis and management. Not a 'belief' in an illness. As a pediatrician, could I also say that I do not believe in heart disease! Clearly, such a statement would be met with ridicule.
We have created a series of self-management eBooks:
Food Allergy: Food (for newly diagnosed food-allergy children)
Food Allergy: What? (this book: concepts, symptoms and problems of food allergy)
Food Allergy:Test & Treat (details about blood tests, medications and anaphylaxis)
Eczema! Cure It! (Find the triggers for eczema, then switch them off)
Going Gluten Free:how to get started (for families new to the gluten world).
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Food allergy – the concepts
Food allergy is common
Food allergy or food intolerance
Developing tolerance to foods
Common diagnostic mistakes
Food additives and hyperactivity
Chapter 2. Food allergy - the symptoms
Quick and slow onset food reactions
Symptoms are common
Death from food allergy
The Allergic March
Probiotics for the gut
Oral Allergy Syndrome
Chapter 3. Eczema – caused by food allergy
Eczema and food allergy are linked
Research evidence of eczema-food-link
What have other researchers found?
15 studies proving the food-eczema link
Gluten known to cause skin disease
Chapter 4. Gut and bowel allergy problems
Blood in stool
Pale stool
Chronic diarrhea
Constipation and soiling in children is common
Gastric Reflux – GORD/GERD
Helicobacter pylori
Chapter 5. Cow’s milk allergy | intolerance
Colic and cow’s milk
Cow’s milk Allergy
Cow’s milk free diet
Cow’s milk protein intolerance - CMPI
Dairy-free children
Milk
formulas
What Dairy-free formulas are available for your baby?
Special low allergen milk
formulas
Chapter 6. Egg & peanut allergy
Egg allergy
Peanut allergy
Chapter 7. Gluten sensitivity | celiac
Celiac disease
The Gluten Syndrome
Symptoms of the Gluten Syndrome
How early can you diagnose celiac disease?
Gluten-free diets
How strict gluten-free?
How long gluten free?
Chapter 8. The eClinic – on-line diagnosis and management
What is the purpose of the eClinic?
Who could be helped by the eClinic?
Can you trust Dr Ford’s opinion?
What guarantees do you have?
How best to use the eClinic?
How is your own