Allergy testing may not be enough. For example, allergy testing alone will
not detect Celiac disease (gluten intolerance).

Elimination of these foods may eliminate symptoms. From there, you can
check to see if it's one food family, the other, or both.

My wife was severely clinically depressed.  When she finally went in for
testing, she was found to be severely anemic. This was traced (via a lucky
guess by her GP) to Celiac. It turns out the gluten intolerance did so much
damage to her lower GI tract that she was losing large amounts of blood,
without even knowing it. I suspect that untreated LI can do the same (LI
experts - can you confirm this?).

When all other diagnoses fail, a dairy/gluten certainly is worth a try, at
least temporarily. And, IMHO, the depression about not eating gluten and/or
dairy is far less debilitating than a clinical (chemically-based) depression.

Mark

At 12:38 PM 12/14/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Heidi,
>
>I need to add something to my previous post.   What was the basis for your
>friend's doctor telling her to avoid wheat and dairy?  Was there any testing
>for allergies?  She might want to check into it if the doc just said to
>avoid it with no basis. It could be other foods causing the problem.  A food
>elimination diet might be good place to start.  I have also heard that some
>people diagnosed with EBV have had parasites.
>
>Tanya

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Mark Feblowitz