I've managed to find some of my old notes (many are still lost but these were the most important ones - I think)... Hopefully they will be able to help someone else who has chosen to take this path...

Elimination Diet - How to do it... and *not* do it First of all I want to say that I am no expert. I am simply a person who has gone through this process, made many mistakes and hope to share the information so that others can follow this route more effectively than I did. (Cara: Have I stolen your line here? It seems awfully familiar! What would we do without you! )

This thread originally started to be about how *not* to do it. However, with the help of many people here, I am, hopefully, slowly turning it into a source of how *to* do it.

We had no support doing our elimination diet. No doctor ever suggested this for us (I have seen at least 10 different doctors over the years for both my children and myself). We did this diet completely wrong. Why? Because I didn't know all the considerations it would involve. So...

Suggestion #1: Find an Environmental Physician.

I have heard stories of allergists saying they don't do celiac tests and other doctors don't do allergy tests. I have never heard of an environmental doctor saying any of this. They seem to be able to coordinate it all. Please post anyof your experiences with 'categories' of professionals here to help others know which road/type of physician they should choose.

Suggestion #2: Know more than I did going in. It's good to be able to speak knowledgeably with your doctor. Of course, sometimes we're so affected that there's just too much brain fog. This is just one more reason why it is better to go through this process with a professional who knows what they're doing.

Finally, our elimination diet story that was originally in this first post can now be found in post #13. I appeal to anyone who has done an elimination diet to please post your stories telling about successes and failures so that others may enter this 'food zone' with more knowledge than we had.

I am going to try to list a table of contents here so that I can condense this first post somewhat. Therefore, you may want to check this first post every once in a while for changes, rather than reread all the posts below.

Posts that I feel are necessary knowledge, I will try to make sure are in italics (usually research oriented). The numbers will coordinate with the post number, which means there will be skipped numbers for those posts which are purely discussion.

Table of Contents

1.
2. Our Experience: The Ten Day Commitment
3. Book List
4. Various Findings - KimS
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KimS - who only gets to participate occassionally with two hands these days
01/02/2002 Small Amounts of Gluten Cause Relapse in Children (see: docguide.com)

12/20/2002 The symptomatic response to a gf diet with borderline enteropathy (see: docguide.com)
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