eliminating offending foods

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This pertains to dairy but will work for potential offending foods as well.

It is important to note that after you reintroduce the food back into your

system, you go back to your elimination diet the following two days.

After the two-week period, begin to reintroducing dairy-containing foods

into your meal plan. Start with organic low-fat cow's milk, organic skim

cow's milk, or organic nonfat cow's milk, and just try about 4 ounces total

at two different times during the day.

On the following two days, go back to your dairy-free meal plan, and wait

and see if you experience any of the reactions you noticed before you

removed dairy (the two day rule). If not, introduce another dairy-containing

food that you would like to keep in your meal plan, for example, organic

cow's milk yogurt. Stick with the highest quality and least complicated

product when you conduct your test - for example, try 4 ounces of a plain,

nonfat organic yogurt rather than a flavored product or a product containing

fruit on the bottom. Follow the the two-day rule again. If you still

experience no problematic reaction, you may want to go on and experiment

with a non-dairy food that contains dairy protein, like a soymilk cheese

that contains casein.

The process is time-consuming, and it takes a lot of patience! But it is

still the best way to decide if dairy is a problem for you or not.