Allergy is a very unpleasant disease.for an adult, and for the child. Here in the treatment is an integrated approach. The simultaneous use of medications and an elimination diet gives simply amazing results.
What is an elimination diet?
The use of an elimination diet in the treatmentAllergies are a method of excluding those products that provoke allergic reactions. Here, food selection is determined by food stimuli, from which a person will have to give up for a period of diet or forever.
An elimination diet is a varietyhypoallergenic food. In order to go to it, the patient is offered to fill in a checklist daily, where he indicates all the products he uses. It enters the date and time of each meal, all the ingredients of the dishes, the method of their preparation, as well as the body's reaction to the food eaten.
At the time of the diet the patient completely refusesallergen products. The power system is compiled by the doctor individually for each patient. If at the end of the diet food allergy will again be felt, then you must again resort to using the checklist. During the elimination diet, antihistamines and hormonal drugs in any form cannot be used.
The control diary is kept for 1-2 months. This period is enough to identify a food allergen. All results are negotiated with the doctor, who adjusts the diet.
The basic principles of nutrition
When using an elimination diet, two basic principles should be followed. First, the menu should be missing products that can cause allergies.
Secondly, nutrition should be as balanced as possible. The diet should contain all the necessary substances for the body, these are vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
Nutritionists recommend adding to the day menu notless than 120-130 grams of protein, as much need and fat, of which a third should be of plant origin. 200 g are given for carbohydrates in the daily menu. The energy value of hypoallergenic nutrition is 2800-2900 Kcal. Diet mandatory fill with berries, fruits and vegetables. After all, they contain the lion's share of vitamins and minerals. Fruits can be consumed both in fresh form and in the form of juices.
To the digestion process does not give failures, in the diet menu include bran and yeast.
Products not suitable for diet
The following products are categorically inappropriate for an elimination diet:
- salt;
- smoked and half-smoked products;
- salted foods;
- spicy dishes and seasonings;
- various marinades, pickles;
- dyes, stabilizers, food additives and flavor enhancers;
- fried food.
Nutrition for fractional allergies. Food should be consumed 4-6 times a day. Meals should not cause irritation of the digestive system, so they are best steamed and chopped.
Nuts should be excluded from the diet, especiallyfor peanuts. It is not recommended to eat fish and other seafood, poultry meat and dishes made from it, eggs. It should abandon tomatoes, eggplants and vegetables with a specific spicy taste. These include horseradish, radish, radish, leafy spicy salads. You should forget about citrus, mushrooms, chocolate and coffee. It is not necessary to consume milk and products from it, as well as honey and confectionery during this period. It is forbidden to drink bread kvass, mineral water and alcohol during the diet.
Not all of these products provoke allergies, but many can aggravate the patient’s condition and adversely affect the development of the disease.
What is included in the diet food?
Imposes a ban on many products elimination diet. It is possible with such a food system there are steam, stewed, boiled or baked dishes. All food is prepared for one day and is not subject to storage.
When a food allergic reaction is allowedeat rabbit meat, veal and beef, as well as beef liver. It is recommended to cook vegetable soups, drink lean meat broth. Borscht and cabbage soup should be prepared without tomato. You should pay attention to soups from cereals.
It is allowed to use cream andvegetable oil, in a proportion of 30 to 70%. You can eat during this period green apples, cranberries, pears, gooseberries, watermelon, as well as wild berries. From the vegetables in the menu add cucumbers, cabbage and cauliflower, potatoes, onions, zucchini and pumpkin.
Fermented milk products, cereal wholegrain cereals, casseroles are allowed. Bread is eaten dried, it is allowed to eat sweets intended for diabetics.
When developing a diet, an individual approach is carried out for each patient, the menu completely depends on his condition and the food allergen identified.
Indications
An elimination diet has been shown for atopic dermatitis, as well as for other types of food allergies.
This diet not only treats, but also helpsdiagnose the patient's condition, because gradually, excluding products from the menu, you can establish the real cause of the appearance of allergies. After removing the product from the food system after three days, it is again added to the menu, and if a negative reaction to it again occurs later, the allergen is considered to be established.
After identifying food allergens, an elimination diet is prescribed. It can recommend people of all ages, including infants.
Helpful Tips
Elimination-reintroduction diet is notthe hardest. Much is allowed here, you just need to get used to the new dishes. On adaptation to the power supply system takes about 2-3 days. In order to make it easier to move the diet, you should:
- Regularly plan menus.
- Eat simple food. For its preparation should take a minimum amount of time.
- Eating frequently and regularly, the principles of fractional feeding are suitable.
- Healthy food should always be at hand, only in this case you can avoid the temptation to eat something harmful.
- Avoid products that may cause allergies.
- Try to eat as many fresh vegetables and fruits as possible.
- Drink clean water in an amount of at least two liters per day.
- If an allergic reaction to protein has been identified, then not only eggs but also the dishes where they have been added should be excluded from the menu. All dairy products should also be removed.
- Do not forget about cross-allergy.
- The optimal duration of the diet is one year.
Не стоит отчаиваться, ведь элиминационная диета - this is a temporary restriction and after conducting a provocative test, which is done against the background of complete remission, the product can again be included in the diet. Of course, if there is no negative reaction to it.
Elimination diet: approximate menu
As you know, hypoallergenic nutrition is selected individually for each patient. The approximate menu of the elimination diet is as follows:
- Monday.The 1st breakfast consists of wheat porridge, apple and tea. At the 2nd breakfast, they eat meatballs with a salad of fresh white cabbage, plus tea. Lunch - vegetable soup with sour cream, beef stroganoff with pasta, compote. For dinner - vinaigrette and tea with a loaf.
- Вторник.At the 1st breakfast, they use rice porridge, one apple and tea. The 2nd breakfast consists of coffee with milk and dry biscuits. At lunchtime, they eat vegetarian barley soup, meatballs with mashed potatoes and drink compote. They eat pudding from cottage cheese and compote.
- Среда. 1-й завтрак: гречка и кофе с молоком.At the 2nd breakfast, it is advised to eat fresh cabbage salad mixed with carrots, plus meatballs. For dinner, serve soup with sour cream, for the second - meatballs with stewed carrots, on the third - compote. For dinner, prepare dairy noodles and jelly.
- Thursday.At the 1st breakfast - semolina porridge, one green apple, tea. The 2nd breakfast consists of a vinaigrette and a cheesecake with tea. For lunch - milk noodles, stewed cabbage with meat, compote. For dinner, cheesecakes are prepared with sour cream plus jelly.
- Friday.1st breakfast: millet porridge, green apple, tea. 2nd breakfast: salad made from fresh cabbage and cucumbers. Served with meatballs and tea. Lunch consists of vegetable soup, stewed potatoes with meat and compote. Evening meals include apple pie plus coffee with milk.
- Saturday.1st breakfast - rice porridge, green apple plus tea. The 2nd breakfast includes coffee with milk and cheese. Vegetarian borscht, stewed cabbage with meat, and compote are cooked at lunchtime. Dinner consists of boiled potatoes, watered sour cream, and tea.
- Sunday.The 1st breakfast consists of milk noodles and tea. At the 2nd breakfast a vinaigrette with meatballs plus tea is served. Dining includes vegan pearl barley soup, steamed vegetables with meat and compote. Dinner should be cottage cheesecake with jelly.
The above menu is classic and is adjusted according to the patient’s condition.
Elimination diet for children with allergies
Children allergy diet is almost the same as adults. When compiling it, they use similar rules, but it still has some features:
- Satisfying the nutritional needs of a growing baby's body.
- Minimal introduction of potentially dangerous allergens.
- Nutrition should have a desensitizing effect in order to reduce the body's susceptibility to various allergens.
An elimination diet for children is different.variety and contains a large amount of easily digestible protein. Drawing up the medical menu takes not so much time. This is due to the presence in modern dietetics of a large number of ready-made options designed for a variety of patients.
Provocative test
Elimination-provocative diet is intendedto remove a person from a hypoallergenic system of nutrition Here, products that have been excluded are gradually returned to the menu. If the product again causes allergies, it is again excluded from the diet.
The reliability of this method is often affectedvarious psycho-emotional and physical factors. To avoid them, the doctor in the hospital makes a control provocative test, where the food allergen is given to the patient not openly, but in combination with other products or in the form of a capsule.
This test can not be used for anaphylactic reactions, acute allergic attacks or if a person reacts negatively to several products at once.
Positive sides
An elimination diet for allergies has a number of positive features, among them:
- Complete disappearance of allergic reactions.
- Improve overall well-being.
- Weight loss.
- Increase strength and energy.
- Cleansing the skin.
- Enhance immunity. Chronic and seasonal diseases almost do not bother patients after a diet.
- Nutrition and balance of the diet.
- Versatility, suitable for people of different ages.
Despite the obvious advantages of this diet, it has a number of disadvantages.
Negative side
Among the minuses of the elimination diet should be indicated:
- Duration, in some cases, it is required to sit on such a diet for a year, or even more.
- Careful preparation of the diet.
- The need for constant consultation with a doctor.
- Limited menu.
- The period of adaptation.
- Outside the house it is not always possible to find the right food.
An elimination diet requires a sensible approach, and its menu needs to be coordinated with the doctor. With him should also discuss the results achieved.
Results of the diet
An elimination diet for allergies gives amazing results. Some people who have suffered from the selection of food, do not want to go out of it and eat food-allergens.
Many citizens who avoided eatingallergens for several months, safely return to a normal lifestyle. Those products that cause allergies are safely tolerated by them. If the sensitivity to a certain type of food does not pass, then you will have to sit on a diet for a while or permanently abandon the use of a certain product.
As practice has shown, long-term disposal of the allergen gives simply amazing results and in the future allows a person to eat everything without exception.
