| • | Any foods or additives can be Reactive |
• | Specific offending food/food additives vary widely from patient to patient |
| • | It is common to have multiple reactive foods and additives |
• | Reactive foods can be dosage dependent (provoking dose in cell-mediated reactions can vary widely) |
| • | In contrast to typical allergic reactions, symptom onset can be delayed many hours after ingestion |
| • | Provoking foods/additives generate global symptoms (extra-intestinal) as well |
| • | Prescribed Diet/Symptom Diaries frequently show no discernable pattern, leading the patient and physician to the false conclusion that neither foods nor additives are playing a role in the patient’s symptoms |
| • | While Elimination & Challenge Diets can be effective at isolating food intolerances, they are tedious, time consuming, nutritionally unbalanced, and are poorly complied with. They are at best impractical and at worst unhealthy |
