Allergy and food intolerances to such things like peanuts, dairy, eggs, gluten, seafood and cereals is on the world wide increase. The advent of genetic modification, the addition of an ever increasing number of chemical additives, irradiation, processing, and soil depletion, has modified foods so much that they have lost a lot of their original therapeutic benefits.

What is the difference between and allergy and a food intolerance?

The term allergy is used to describe an over reaction within the body, to a substance, which is not necessarily harmful in itself, but results in an immune response and a reaction that causes symptoms and disease in a predisposed person.

An allergy is everything from a runny nose, itchy eyes and palate to skin rash. It aggravates the sense of smell, sight, tastes and touch causing irritation, extreme disability and sometimes fatality.

Common Symptoms of food allergy

•     Itching, burning and swelling around the mouth

•     Irritability

•     Runny nose

•     Skin rash (eczema)

•     Hives

•     Diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, constipation

•     Breathing difficulties, including wheezing and asthma

•     Vomiting, nausea

Food intolerance is a chemical reaction

A food intolerance is a chemical response when your digestive system does not produce sufficient quantities of a specific enzyme or chemical needed to break down a certain food. Food intolerance has been associated with asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Symptoms of food intolerance can include:

•     Nervousness

•     Sweating

•     Palpitations

•     Rapid breathing

•     Headache, migraine

•     Diarrhoea

•     Burning sensations on the skin

•     Tightness across the face and chest

•     Breathing problems - asthma-like symptoms

•     Allergy-like reactions.

Determining the food allergy or intolerance

With changes to food processing, combined with the overload of nutritional information that is in circulation today, it makes it virtually impossible to determine exactly which foods are best suited to the individual. You can find out what foods you are allergic or intolerant to, by doing a simple hair sample test. By simply sending us a hair sample, we can provide you with a comprehensive list of foods to eat, and what to avoid. Order a General 300 Test Kit Now.

We test a sample of your hair with 300 food and household items. You can expect to see which foods work for you and which are making you sick. For example, one patient has an intolerance to apples and oranges, but not bananas and strawberries – you’ll be surprised by the results.