Posted by: rebekahc
« on: June 26, 2019, 02:15:07 PM »Welcome! I'm sorry to hear you're on the food allergy journey! What type of allergy testing did you have? Do you know what type of blood test was ordered? Did it include allergy testing such as CAP RAST? Testing for allergies (both blood and skin) has a high rate of false positives, but comparing the two results can help narrow down likely culprits and make choosing which foods are necessary to eliminate first an easier decision. Did you also have testing done for environmental allergies?
The list of foods you need to eliminate seems like an atypical combination. Avoiding corn is particularly difficult because it is in so many (almost all) packaged products and is not required to be labelled. Your best bet, if just eliminating for a short time to figure out the culprit, would be to eat a very simple diet and avoid as much processed foods as possible.
Here is an old thread about corn allergy and all the products that can contain corn. I'm not sure if all the links within those posts to other corn allergy resources still work - in fact, I'm positive some of them don't - but, it will at least give you some idea of the challenge in avoiding corn and the reason you may have to eat super simple, single ingredient foods while on your elimination diet.
https://foodallergysupport.olicentral.com/index.php/topic,238.0.html
What guidance has your allergist given you?
ETA: This link (from the above referenced thread) is still good and has a wealth of info on corn-derived ingredients. http://corn-freefoods.blogspot.com/
The list of foods you need to eliminate seems like an atypical combination. Avoiding corn is particularly difficult because it is in so many (almost all) packaged products and is not required to be labelled. Your best bet, if just eliminating for a short time to figure out the culprit, would be to eat a very simple diet and avoid as much processed foods as possible.
Here is an old thread about corn allergy and all the products that can contain corn. I'm not sure if all the links within those posts to other corn allergy resources still work - in fact, I'm positive some of them don't - but, it will at least give you some idea of the challenge in avoiding corn and the reason you may have to eat super simple, single ingredient foods while on your elimination diet.
https://foodallergysupport.olicentral.com/index.php/topic,238.0.html
What guidance has your allergist given you?
ETA: This link (from the above referenced thread) is still good and has a wealth of info on corn-derived ingredients. http://corn-freefoods.blogspot.com/