| Lamb and pears may appear to be a strange | | | | illness or allergy symptoms. |
| combination, but the reason they are chosen as part | | | | Keep a food diary to track your progress and note |
| of a food allergy diet is because they are rarely | | | | down how you are feeling during the diet. |
| indicated in allergies and are therefore relatively safe | | | | If your food allergy symptoms disappear during the |
| foods for most people with a food allergy to eat. | | | | diet you can try and reintroduce suspect foods to |
| Often the best way to treat a food allergy is to | | | | see if they cause you a reaction. Keep a note of |
| avoid the food that causes the allergy altogether so | | | | how you feel before and after eating the different |
| a period of exclusion gives your body a chance to tell | | | | foods you reintroduce. |
| you which foods are making you ill and whether you | | | | Any food that does cause a reaction needs to be |
| react to one food or many foods. | | | | kept out of your diet and placed on your "foods to |
| An exclusion diet consists of eliminating one or more | | | | avoid list". If a food passes your test successfully |
| foods completely from the diet for a given period of | | | | you can place it on your "foods you can eat" list. |
| time and then reintroducing foods one at a time to | | | | For best results take each step slowly; reintroduce |
| check for adverse reactions. | | | | foods slowly, perhaps one food per meal and if |
| If you are committed to the process your efforts | | | | possible one food per day. |
| will be rewarded with the food, or foods, that cause | | | | A variation of the lamb and pears food allergy diet |
| your problems and you can be free of the | | | | allows you to eat turkey and peaches, or rabbit and |
| symptoms and distress a food allergy may cause. | | | | raspberries. |
| The principle of the lamb and pears food allergies diet | | | | Important note! A two food diet is very restrictive |
| is that you only eat these two foods, lamb, pears | | | | and should never be followed without close |
| and bottled or filtered water, for five to seven days. | | | | supervision or for an extended period of time. |
| During the course of the food allergy diet you can | | | | Severe exclusion diets can compromise your |
| begin reintroducing other foods one at a time and | | | | nutritional well-being so pregnant women, children, |
| gauge whether they cause a food allergy reaction. | | | | diabetics, epileptics, anyone with emotional |
| As the lamb and pears food allergy diet is so | | | | disturbances or anyone with a serious illness should |
| restrictive it gives a chance for your system to clear | | | | seek professional advice before embarking on any |
| and reveal the hidden allergies which are causing | | | | type of food allergy treatment or exclusion diet. |