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Testing for Food Allergies

© Traute Klein, biogardener

Food allergy testing does not have to be expensive or complicated. I learned to apply a simple test 45 years ago and have been using it successfully ever since. You can learn to apply it in the time it takes to read this short article, using nothing except a thermometer.

Disclaimer

I am not trying to take the place of your physician, but I am sharing my personal experience of what saved me from severe allergy problems when the medical profession had no help for me. I learned to look after myself, getting help wherever I could find it, including in a popular magazine.

Let me add that I have received more thanks for sharing this information than for any other advice I have ever given.

KISS, or "Keep It Simple, Stupid"

Food allergy testing does not have to be expensive or complicated. I learned to apply this simple test 45 years ago and have been using it successfully ever since. You can learn to apply it in the time it takes to read this short article, using nothing except a thermometer.

The Food Allergy Test

I don't remember where this test originates, but I have known of its use in Canada since the fifties when it was featured in a well-known magazine called "The Toronto Star Weekly."

On an empty stomach, first thing in the morning, take your temperature. Read it accurately and keep a record. Eat the food item which you wish to test, only one, e.g. tomato, or milk, or wheat, or yeast, or whatever you want to test. Don't test for composite food like cake or soup but only for the individual ingredients. Record which food you ate. Take your temperature again in half an hour. Record it. If your temperature has gone up, you are allergic to that item. My temperature always goes up 1/2° F. Yours may be a different amount.

If your temperature remains unchanged, you are not allergic to the test item.

Skin tests are no longer considered reliable, I have been told. Test results vary from one time to another. There has never been any variation with the temperature test during my 45 years of experience with it.

If you react to a poisonous item, you are not really allergic to it, and you should be happy that your body recognizes a poison. The test results, of course, don't tell you whether the item is poisonous or whether you are just allergic to it. It only tells you that you should stay away from it.

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