Talk:Elimination diet

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 * : (good general information) general food allergy info; food diary for intermittent symptoms; simple elimination diet for single strongly suspected allergen vs complex ones for unknown situations, requiring nutritional supervision; two examples of highly restricted diets, with foods re-introduced ~once a week;  some info on psychologic intolerance.  Refs  (1976) and  (1978) for information on diagnostic techniques.


 * : (gastroenterology focus) results in overdiagnosis; allergic eosinophilic esophagitis and allergic eosinophilic gastroenteritis may require ED for proper diagnosis


 * : (pediatric focus)  broad elimination diets discouraged; dietetic advice recommended; concerns about "nutritional deficiencies and social isolation"; need to repeat trial; inferiority to double-blind placebo-controlled oral food challenge.


 * : (pediatric focus)  elimination diets in newborns; the "few food" ("oligoantigenic") diet;


 * : (alt med)  masked food intolerance/hidden food allergy; nearly everyone reacts badly to something; etc.


 * : (pemphigus and fogo selvagem)  all kinds of things to drop from the diet


 * : (juvenile chronic arthr)  seems "incidental" but is an aggravating factor for a few children; many more RA patients believe they have a food intolerance


 * : (IBD)  10-20% of IBD patients should avoid dairy; Crohn's more interesting than UC; many patients try this on their own.


 * : (IBS)  Many think they're intolerant to many things, but data is weak; decent def for "food intolerance"; believes 5% of general population have food intolerance; history of elimination diet trials in IBS patients; discusses "novel technique" for rechallenge; suggests cromolyn sodium for treatment; many patients try diet changes on their own.


 * : (pediatric atopic eczema)  Maybe a third to half of young children benefit in placebo-controlled studies; many parents experiment on their own with diet changes, resulting in a change in population seen at the clinic; list of potential foods to eliminate, limited info on relative prevalence.

Hope this helps, WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed, thanks! --Una Smith (talk) 04:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Draft
Added further text for consideration, The primary ref which applies to much of the text, is the first listed, and others might need assigning.Jagra (talk) 06:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, we need to have the refs associated with the actual statements they support. Refs can be easily re-used, so feel free to plug the first ref in whenever appropriate.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Examples of elimenation diet
Should have examples. Maybe stats of Intolerance prevalences to certain foods. (e.g. made up figure 1/10000 intolerant to oranges) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.243.77.253 (talk) 10:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Fine if you can find WP:RS references for figures. Jagra (talk) 07:54, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Dubious
This entire article is about the medical purposes of an elimination diet, yet in the middle of the processes of how this type of diet works is the "may not be for medical purposes" section. If it's not for medical purposes it's not an exclusion diet. it's a moral choice. Lets discuss possibly removing/rewording this. Imaslee pviking  ( talk ) 14:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I think you're right. I don't think we're adequately communicating that an elimination diet is a stepwise, temporary process normally involving trial and error, not a special medical word for "doesn't eat ___".  Part of a normal elimination diet protocol is to re-introduce foods whose omission appears to make no difference.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:43, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free diets are not elimination diets. It's been five years since this was brought up - I'll go ahead and remove that section. Tamarixia (talk) 21:58, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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Clinical claim
Re a clinical claim currently in the lead:

While this empirical approach may be used in clinical practice in cases of suspected food intolerance / allergy, some pseudoscientific food fads also focus on "elimination diets" (example here). Some Wikipedia users may visit this page to find out about these sorts of touted "elimination diets" (raising particular editorial issues touched upon elsewhere on this talk page). I feel it's important for any clinical claim/s to be reliably sourced and clearly contextualized. 86.186.120.172 (talk) 11:47, 9 January 2018 (UTC)