Originally Posted by DesertFlower

Alice,


From "Food Allergies" by William E. Walsh, M.D.:

"To help relieve classic food allergy, our immune systems need a break from this monotonous diet, a day off once in a while. That's why varying your diet can work so well. Not eating wheat, corn, milk, or citrus fruits for a day gives the police responsible for these foods a well-deserved respite-a chance to refresh themselves. Then, when you reurn to eating these foods again, your refreshed immune police can stop your immune system from attacking the foods. Alternatively, they gain this rest if we eat only a small amont of the food each day, an amount they can easily control.
Is this police force a figment of my imagination? No; it exists. The police I described are cells of the immune system, cells called lymphocytes. The lymphocytes that stop allergic reaticion are called suppresser lymphocytes, and, as their name indicates, they suppress or stop allerigic reactions to foods. When they weaken, when they become exhaustedd, we suffer the immedieate or delayed syptoms of food protien allergy."

This book leaves me wanting to know more.