Confusion about adding a new food to my diet
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Confusion about adding a new food to my diet
Should I eat a serving of say applesauce and then wait 3 days to see if I react? Or, do I eat a serving each of the 3 days. I've read both on this forum. Thanks
MC diagnosed 2007
If you can eat a food each day for 3 days, without symptoms, that is a more convincing test than just eating it once. The reason is due to the fact that if you are sensitive to a food, then each exposure will cause an increase in your antibody level.
If you haven't eaten a food for a long time, then the first day the antibody level may be nominal, and it might even be below the threshold above which a reaction will be triggered. But by the third day (if you eat it every day) your antibody level should be high enough to trigger a reaction (if you're sensitive to it).
If you're not sensitive to that food, then eating it each day for 3 days should cause no ill effects.
Tex
If you haven't eaten a food for a long time, then the first day the antibody level may be nominal, and it might even be below the threshold above which a reaction will be triggered. But by the third day (if you eat it every day) your antibody level should be high enough to trigger a reaction (if you're sensitive to it).
If you're not sensitive to that food, then eating it each day for 3 days should cause no ill effects.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.