Elimination Diet

[nex0s]

Have you done it? How was it? Did it help with your dis-ease?

Links for my own reference:
Dr.Cranton
CFIDSETA: Honestly, I don't give two shits about Dr.Cranton. I know several people on my flist who have chronic diseases and have done this diet and IDed a number of allergies. WIth the return of my IBS as bad as it was in college I want to put a

Comments

[kightp]

While I don't know a lot about - and haven't experienced - the elimination diet, I do know that Dr. Elmer Cranton is associated with chelation therapy, a scientifically dubious practice that is often listed among the top 10 consumer health frauds in the US. For that reason alone I'd look for other sources of information before trying such a diet.

[agnosticoracle]

I recommend doing a quick search on http://www.quackometer.net/ on any medical procedure you hear about. A search about the doctors is also useful. Following up on kighp's there is a lot about Dr. Cranton there, I wouldn't recommend trusting him.

[agnosticoracle]

A quackometer search produced the following in a search about IBS:

http://www.quackwatch.org/03HealthPromotion/ibs.html
The first step in managing IBS should be to identify what triggers the symptoms. The factors to consider include food intolerances, eating habits, dietary factors, emotional stress, exercise habits, use of laxatives, and vitamin C intake. It may help to keep a diary that relates symptoms to daily activities

[nex0s]

Yeah, doesn't it

[agnosticoracle]

The key is to find a good doctor. =)

The article I quoted was written in 2000, so it isn't exactly new cutting edge information. IBS seems to be more in the news lately so you may have a better chance of finding a doctor with a clue about it. Basic advice for anyone is if a doctor doesn't listen to you take your business to one who does.

[la_directora]

One thing you might consider is checking to see if your health insurance would cover visits to a licensed nutritionist. There may even be one associated with your doctor's office. If you could find a way to work with one who works with your doctor on current diagnoses, that might be the safest, most reliable path.

[nolly]

I had a very zealous allergist as a child. Among other tests, we did an elimination diet, and identified sevel foods that appeared to cause problems. I'm not certain the results were really accurate, but your symptoms are significantly clearer than my alleged reactions were.

That said, doing the diet was a royal pain, and I wasn't even the one cooking or doing most of the food journaling; my mother was. Other lessons learned: puffed wheat with maple syrup is not a very tasty breakfast, but it's better than puffed wheat with orange juice. Buckwheat pancakes are OK, but the texture is weird. And the natural peanut butter available at that time in that place was nasty, but better with salt added. Sometimes if you leave a food rotated out for a long enough time, you lose the taste for it, at least if you're me -- a lot of my dietary quirks date from the rotation diet and the foods eliminated afterwards.

[myindigodreams]

I don't know if you've seen this list. But thought I'd share it. There was a bit of ummm questionable stuff in there but interesting information as well...

Alternative Medicine & Holistic Therapies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

http://www.helpforibs.com/footer/links.asp#alt