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"Many controversies exist about the nature and importance of adverse reactions to food and chemical additives to human diseases, and the whole spectrum of symptoms that may appear are not delineated," explains Lene Hoj, a Danish doctor of internal medicine and specialist in allergic diseases." But my success in treating patients and my research in the area of food intolerance clearly shows that a long list of conditions and symptoms are related to food allergies including eczema and urticaria." With regard to food allergy and skin conditions, Hoj explains that when allergy is the root of eczema and urticaria, the mast cells in the lower layers of the skin are believed to cause the problem. When they degranulate, the mediators that are released have a powerful effect on the capillaries (tiny blood vessels) that lie all around them in the skin. These capillaries become leakier, allowing plasma (the watery part of the blood) to seep out into the skin itself.

This produces the characteristic swellings and itchiness of urticaria, which is a skin disruption with temporary welts of various shapes and sizes with clear margins and pale centres. Urticaria is often thought to be triggered by food, drugs, and stress. Sometimes it's triggered by cold. Where a great deal of seepage from the blood vessels occurs, the tissues below the skin may also become filled with watery fluid. This produces a puffiness that doctors describe as localized angioedema (or oedema), an abnormal pooling of fluid in the tissues. Allergy testing is not just for severe skin conditions. Many people have had success at clearing up acne, especially as a side effect of eliminating intolerant foods for other medical conditions. There is no effective way to diagnose food intolerance for each person without individual testing. Guesswork alone will not help most people find out which foods, chemicals, and other substances they should not eat.

You'll find few traditional allergy doctors who would agree that delayed food reactions cause skin conditions. One of the problems in their lack of acceptance of this therapy is that many current research studies on food intolerance and skin conditions show just over 50 percent improvement which many do not believe is statistically significant. These studies may not show results as high as those of other studies on food intolerance and conditions such as migraine, fatigue, and weight loss. But 50 percent improvement does show nonetheless that food intolerance is clearly a viable therapy for at least half of the millions of people who suffer from painful skin irritations. In several research studies on the Food Intolerance Test, doctors found over 50 percent improvement in eczema, urticaria, angioedema, and general skin condition by eliminating specific food intolerance's. In their 1990 study on the (F.I. Test, Drs. Fell and Brostoff (London) found that patients with eczema and urticaria who stuck to their Food IntoleranceTest diets improved over a six-week period.

In a second study in 1992 on the effectiveness of the Food Intolerance Test in treating four common patient complaints, Drs. Fell and Brostoff found that after one-year 26 patients (9 with urticaria and 17 with eczema) improved by an estimated 50 percent. The nine-urticaria patients showed a striking improvement two completely resolved and six maintained their success rate over the course of the 12 month study.

Consistent with this percentage, Dr. Barbara Solomon reported in 1994 that 11 patients with eczema improved by 55 percent when they eliminated their intolerant foods. Further, Dr. Cabo-Soler, M.D., a medical faculty member and chief of the Biochemistry Department at the University of Valencia in Spain, noted that in addition to losing weight, patients also reported greater quality to their skin, more smoothness and less dryness and flaking. In a one-month study on the relationship of food intolerance to weight loss, body composition, and self-reported disease symptoms conducted in 1997 at the Columbia/ HCA Medical Centre's Sports Medicine and Performance Centre in Houston, lead investigator Gilbert Kaats, Ph.D., found a much higher than 50 percent improvement in eczema symptoms after patients followed a diet that eliminated their intolerant foods. In fact, the individuals in the experimental group (50 participants) who had reported problems with eczema averaged a 66 percent improvement in their skin condition after following the diet.

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