I am about to have food intolerances check out after living with a post nasal drip & severe eczema.
There was a great book I was told to read first, called "friendly food", my local library had it. It explains how lots of the food adds up together to cause a reaction, and you look for 1 thing and won't find it, but it's the combination of them that causes it. I know I react to soy, which has natural MSG, and stock powder also does - so put that together and that might be your trigger.
Read the book, it is worth it.
The only way to look for intolerances (not allergies, which skin pr*ck testing finds, but won't tell you intolerances) properly is a total elimination diet & add them back in slowly. I'm seeing the specialist in Sept (called in Feb for an appointment), so it will be like 4 weeks of hell, but my ENT said he is the only one in Melb who does it because it is really hard to find the culprit and most dr's & patients find it too hard and too much work. If I didn't have 7 years of living with this skin (and I wanted to do the diet on my son anyway, but couldn't cope with how disruptive it would be, and I think DD reacts to kiwi, so 3 of us will gain from it), I wouldn't bother.
the book really made me aware of how much stuff I thought was ok (like cucumbers for crying out loud) can add my adding up to my problems
What is so confusing is that the reactions are not often - I haven't had another this year until last night, then I might have several in a short space of time. I was tested for MSG as I really thought that was what it was as my first reaction was after eating at a chinese many years ago, but nope not even a minor indication to that. I also thought it was seafood, nope, not that either.
I guess I haven't done anything further about it because the specialist sat there and basically said that was it, he couldn't explain it, and had no idea what else to do - almost felt like he thought it was in my head!
I will check out that book, thanks Yael.
One of my friends can eat chicken and mushrooms, but if he mixes them together he ends up in hospital having a severe anaphylaxtic reaction. So look at combinations.
Also look at the oils used in the making of the products, I cannot have certain vegetable oils so try to steer clear of anything that doesn't list specific oils, if it uses the overarching "vegetable oil" in the ingredients I won't buy it.
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