Module 2: Food Allergies and Elimination Diets

Core Content: Unit 2: Designing and Managing Elimination Diets

Assess whether you have hidden food allergies/intolerances.

Food Allergy Detection Assessment: Here you’ll find a scorecard assessment that will help you determine the likelihood of food intolerances/allergies, and the impact they may be having on your health and the health of your clients.

Identify potential food triggers.

Complete the assessment, then follow the instructions in the Learning to Spot Potential Trigger Foods assignment.

Food Frequency Checklist Assessment: This assessment goes deep into a person’s diet and examines the frequency of exact foods from various categories.  It also identifies any foods they feel it would be difficult to give up.

 

 

Learning to Spot Potential Trigger Foods: AKA the “No, Go, Maybe Protocol”, use the results of the assessment above, and follow the instructions to highlight the list of foods identified as best.

Track food intake and symptoms.

Careful tracking of the response to foods, using the Diet and Symptom Tracker, during both the elimination and provocation phases is important to a person’s success.

Diet and Symptom Tracker (XLSX): If you prefer to track things on your computer, use the Excel spreadsheet version.  You may choose to print a copy of the PDF form for when you’re not at your computer.

 

 

Diet and Symptom Tracker (PDF): Print the PDF version and share it with your client.  Print several copies of it and staple together.

 

 

 

Suspicious Food Tracking: As you track foods using the Diet and Symptom Tracker form above, list suspects in the “Foods I’m Suspicious About” column. Also, list all the suspect foods from the Learning to Spot Potential Trigger Foods exercise here. These are all the foods that someone already knows makes them feel uncomfortable or have been tested and found to create an allergic or intolerant response.

Design an elimination diet.

Elimination Diet Menu Plan: Use this document, along with the results from Learning to Spot Potential Trigger Foods to make a list of the foods you or your client will be eating during the core 4 days of the elimination phase.

 

 

FAST Recipe Collection: In this 80-page document, you’ll find ideas for how to plan a unique Food Allergy Spy Training (FAST) diet.  Provide for as many meals as is needed to be satisfied and substitute ingredients as needed according to the plan.

[accessally_course_navigation prev_button=’Previous’ next_button=’Next’]