While doctors seldom research the connection between food intolerance and eczema with their patients, there is still evidence that for some eczema sufferers, total or partial relief can be obtained with a change in diet. Allergy tests are sometimes implemented but more often food intolerance, which is more difficult to diagnose, is frequently overlooked. Fortunately, most child sufferers of eczema discover that the disease tends to clear up and often disappear entirely with age. A general term encompassing various inflamed skin conditions, eczema comes in many forms. One of the most common is referred to as atopic dermatitis or atopic eczema. Around 10 to 20 percent of the whole world population is impacted by this chronic and relapsing rash distinguished by extreme itchiness and redness at some point during the first years of their lives. However, those adults with eczema are searching for a cure or at least a long-lasting treatment that new advances in food intolerance research may be able to assist with.
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Food Intolerance Linked To Eczema
October 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Illnesses and Diseases
Tagged: Atopic eczema, diseases, eczema, eczema treatment, illness
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Diet And Food Intolerance
September 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Many people are interested in whether IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) is caused by food intolerance. The short answer is that food intolerances can cause irritable bowel symptoms, but not every person with IBS will have food intolerances, and at the same time not everyone with a food intolerance will have irritable bowel syndrome. The long answer is a bit more complicated.
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Categories: Illnesses and Diseases
Tagged: diseases, ibs, illness, irritable bowel syndrome
Weight Gain As A Result Of Food Intolerance
September 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It’s a common believe that weight gain is caused by diet, more specifically by food intolerance. The British Nutrition Foundation declared recently that one fifth of the British population thinks they have some type of food allergy or intolerance. While the foundation believes that only a fraction of these people actually have an allergy or intolerance, weight gain due to food intolerances is a real concern.
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Categories: Illnesses and Diseases
Tagged: diseases, eating disorders, fat, illness, obesity, weight gain
Migraine Inducing Foods
August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A common symptom of food intolerance are migraine headaches. For many migraine sufferers, there can be a feeling of no hope for their headaches as they come on day after day. While one of the most common cause of migraines is eyestrain (or asthenopia), a simple solution lies before each one of us as we sit down to eat every day.
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Tagged: diseases, headaches, illness, migraine, symptoms
ADHD and Food Intolerances
August 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a behavioral disorder, is common in both children and adults who have trouble paying attention and staying on task. A common condition, it begins in early childhood and tends to carry into adulthood. Gone untreated, it leads to problems at home, school, in the workplace and within both superficial and interpersonal relationships. A lot of adults who have ADHD do not realize they do and can discover it when their children are diagnosed and treated. They then start to recognize their own symptoms.
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Tagged: adhd, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diseases, health, illness, symptoms
Arthritis Treatment And Food Intolerance Connection
June 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A report from the UK Medical Research Council in 2001 stated there is evidence from both case reports and controlled trials that an individualised diet, where offending foods are identified, removed, and consequently cause an improvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Thus, sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis may be interested in knowing that there may be a connection between rheumatoid arthritis and food intolerances. Wheats and dairy foodstuffs in particular have a high chance of inducing arthritis.
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Tagged: arthritis, arthritis treatment, Charles de Coti-Marsh, elimination diet, rheumatoid arthritis
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diet
May 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There are many sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) can bring about overwhelming sleepiness and physical weariness to the point where one cannot perform any typical daily activities that they used to. CFS affects close to a million U.S. citizens each year and some sufferers with CFS have been battling it for years. New research into dieting has helped to determine that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is associated with food intolerance.
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Tagged: cfs, cfs diet, chronic fatigue syndrome, diet, fatigue
3 Possible Causes of Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( IBS )
November 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
IBS can seem to come from nowhere, and its sufferers often have trouble figuring out why they are afflicted. The latest research sheds some light on the problem. Read on to find out about the causes of irritable bowel syndrome : (more…)
Categories: Illnesses and Diseases
Tagged: bacteria, ibs, ibs causes, irritable bowel syndrome, stress
Eczema And Food Intolerances
July 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Food intolerance in the west is on the increase. More and more people are suffering with allergies to foods, substances and the environment. Eczema ( also known at atopic dermatitis ) has drastically increased and has been linked with food intolerances, of course we cant say that eczema causes are food intolerances only, since its not completely well understood. We know that there are other things such has stress that can contribute to it, but in this article we will focus on type III food allergies ( food intolerances ). (more…)
Categories: Illnesses and Diseases
Tagged: eczema, atopic dermatitis, skin rashes