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Allergy Help Books

Allergies and Holistic Healing Natural Relief for Allergy Sufferers
by Skye Weintraub, 1997

Allergies: Disease in Disguise How to Heal Your Allergic Condition
by Carolee Bateson-Koch, 1995

Testing for Food Allergies

by Traute Klein, AKA 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.

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 40 years of experience with it.

Don't Give Up

Don't give up if you have not been able to pin down your food allergies and/or sensitivities. Keep on testing a different item every morning. In time you will find out which the worst offenders are for you. Then, of course, you have to stay away from those to improve your health. It can be done.

I have seen dramatic improvement in people who consistently tested every morning. Unfortunately, some people give up too soon and reach for pharmaceutical help on which they will become dependent. They will never be well, because pharmaceuticals do not cure problems. They only cover them up.