Explain about the Management of Food Allergies?
Once all food challenges have been completed, a maintenance diet should be planned. A maintenance diet is based on avoidance of offending foods and substitution aiming at a nutritionally balanced diet. To help identify and avoid offending foods, allergy- specific list that describes foods to avoid may be useful. Table presents allergy- specific list of foods for your reference. Besides avoidance of offending food, certain nutritional supplements may serve useful in management of adverse food reactions and maintenance of a good nutritional status during the course of treatment.
A brief review on these supplements follows improve digestion, by helping the intestinal tract control the absorption of food allergens and/or by changing immune system responses to foods. It is well known that probiotics, like lactobacillus, assist in the digestion of lactose. One group of researchers has reported using probiotics to successfully treat infants with food allergies in two trials: a double-blind trial using Lactobacillus GG bacteria in infant formula, and a preliminary trial giving the same bacteria to nursing mothers. Probiotics may also be important in non-allergic food intolerance caused by imbalances in the normal intestinal flora. Many of the effects of allergic reactions, we learnt earlier, are caused by the release of histamine, some natural substances, such as vitamin C and flavonoids, including quercetin, have demonstrated antihistamine effects in laboratory, animal, and other preliminary studies. However, no research bas investigated whether these substances can specifically reduce allergic reactions in humans.