How Do I Go About Doing This?

[Melzo]

Hello everyone!

Long time, no see. It's been awhile since I've been on here.

I have an important question. I feel like I have been suffering from the affects of being glutened. I have heavy brain fog...and now am having seizures (often). I think I am being glutened and wanted to start from scratch.

I read some topics (even some recently) about cc issues. I believe that I will go out and purchase my own set of everything that belongs in the kitchen (cutting board, utensils, sponge, etc...). However, I wanted to do the "diet" where you just start eating one thing at time and reintroduce items into your diet. I wanted to know...what do I start with that isn't going to leave me totally exhausted (ok, more so than I am now?). Would eggs be a good thing? Veggies? Fruit? Then do I wait a full week before introducing one more food item (or group)?? I just don't know how I go about doing this correctly. It is very important that I find out what is going on because I am suffering. Horribly. And I don't really want to go to the doctor...if at all possible. I just know how that's going to go...but that is another post altogether.

Thanks for all of your advice and recommendations that are forthcoming. You all have helped me so much in the past...

[ravenwoodglass]

Although this is written for a Mom who is breast feeding a baby with colic it does give a good description of an elimination diet. The only difference is that the symptoms will be yours. It is identical to the diet my allergist put me on before I was diagnosed.

"This is a diet that Martha recommends in her lactation-counseling practice whenever she suspects a baby's colic could be caused by sensitivities to food in a breastfeeding mother's diet. This diet was developed by William G. Crook, M.D. (Detecting Your Hidden Allergies, Jackson, Tenn: Professional Books, 1987), and it has several variations, depending on how bothersome the symptoms are. The elimination diet we use is based on eating the least allergenic food in each of the food groups. You may need to do this for two weeks since it can take this long for the offending foods to get out of your system and baby's system. Here is the variation we find helps mothers get the quickest, surest relief for their hurting babies:

Eat only range-fed turkey and lamb, baked or boiled potatoes and sweet potatoes (with salt and pepper only), rice and millet as your only grain, cooked green and yellow squash for your vegetable, and for fruit, pears and diluted pear juice. Drink a rice-based beverage drink in place of milk on cereal or in cooking. Do not yet use soy beverage. Take a calcium supplement. (Rice products, such as rice beverage, rice-based frozen dessert, rice pasta, rice flour, and millet are available in nutrition stores.)

At the end of two weeks, or sooner if the colic subsides, gradually add other foods to your diet, one every four days, starting with those less commonly allergenic (such as sunflower seeds, carrots, beets, salmon, oats, grapes, avocado, peaches). Wait a while before you add wheat, beef, eggs, nuts, and corn. Avoid for the longest time dairy products, soy products, peanuts, shellfish, coffee, tea, colas and other beverages containing caffeine, chocolate, gas-producing vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, green peppers), tomatoes, and citrus fruits. Vegetables and fruits are often tolerated in cooked form sooner than in raw form. "

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[hathor]

Here's another description of an elimination diet:

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I think if you google on "elimination diet" you can find others.