As we've experimented with eliminating foods in Violet's diet, one thing that has bothered me all along is that
no particular food elimination has made her eczema disappear, and I'm concerned that we're preventing her from building up tolerance to various mild food allergies.
Not exact matches
These include obsessive focus on
food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption;
food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited
foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or
elimination of
particular kinds of
food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.
GALT interacts strictly with gastrointestinal functions in a dynamic manner; for instance, by increasing intestinal permeability in replay to
particular stimulations, or orientating the immune response towards luminal content, allowing either tolerance or
elimination / degradation of luminal antigens, or sometimes provoking damage to the intestinal mucosa, such as in coeliac disease or
food allergy.
If you do react to a
particular food on the
Elimination Diet, you are supposed to pause the diet.
In contrast to other diets that simply exclude common problematic
foods, an
elimination diet is done to determine what
particular food intolerances the individual may have.
To determine if your dog is allergic to a
particular type of
food, you'd have to put her on an
elimination diet.
Cats in
particular are notorious for hiding signs of illness but studies have shown that «sickness behaviors» such as decreased
food intake, increased vomiting,
elimination outside of the box and a complete avoidance of
elimination will also increase when a cat is stressed.3