| As incredible as it may sound, much of your arthritis | | | | system is flooded with histamines, prostaglandins, and |
| pain may be the result of your dietary choices. Since | | | | other immune system chemicals. These chemicals are |
| the symptoms of arthritis often appear to come and | | | | extremely irritating to your tissues, causing pain and |
| go unexpectedly, it can be difficult to tell whether any | | | | inflammation. If the condition is left untreated, |
| sudden relief was caused by a new diet or not. The | | | | permanent damage to the joint tissue can occur. Joint |
| possibilities are extremely high that many of the foods | | | | pains are a very late sign of food allergy reactions. |
| you consume on a regular daily basis are trigger foods | | | | Eliminating Your Sensitivities and Reducing Pain |
| that cause subtle but serious immunological reactions in | | | | Studies have linked the connection between food |
| your white blood cells. Hours or even days after eating | | | | allergies and joint pain with reports showing a reduction |
| those trigger foods, you may experience fatigue, | | | | of at least half of pain when food allergens are |
| headaches, digestive problems, insomnia, skin | | | | removed from the diet. A reduction of certain foods |
| breakouts and joint pain but you possibly will never | | | | including fat, dairy and red meat is shown to relieve |
| connect those symptoms to the foods that caused | | | | pain and in most cases, an elimination diet can be very |
| them. This is a phenomenon known as hidden food | | | | helpful, as it is the most reliable way of detecting food |
| sensitivity and it affects up to 70 per cent of the | | | | allergies. All suspected foods must be completely |
| population. | | | | eliminated from the diet for several weeks, and then |
| So How Exactly Does a Food Allergy Lead to | | | | reinstated one at a time over a period of several days. |
| Arthritis? | | | | If the symptoms of pain and inflammation re-occur |
| When you have sensitivity to a particular food, your | | | | after each food is eaten again, then it could be a |
| body is unable to completely digest and process the | | | | culprit. This should be done at least three times to |
| nutrients it contains. As a result, incompletely digested | | | | determine that there were no other factors involved. If |
| food particles pass through the digestive-tract walls | | | | an elimination diet is followed, it is wise to keep two |
| and into your bloodstream. They are eventually | | | | diaries - one of the food eaten and at what times and |
| deposited in tissue, where the white blood cells mistake | | | | dates, the other of the dates and times of pain |
| them for foreign bodies. | | | | flare-ups. When the two are compared, it will be plain |
| The immune system then mounts an attack and your | | | | to see what was eaten that could have caused pain. |