Show Food Tests Wi Will II Decide Sensitivity By DR MORRIS lORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical l Association and of Hygeia the Health Magazine There are several l ways of finding whether you are sensitive to certain foods Tho The commonest offenders offender with children are milk eggs and wheat Adults frequently are send send- tive to pork fat sea lea foods nuts nuu and less ess frequently to some fruits or vegetables Meats except pork appear least likely of all foods to create ties ies If you are sensitive to wheat linseed oil or or cottonseed oil you are re almost certain to have bave trouble because because be be because cause of the wide use of these substances substances sub sub- stances in cookery Doctors Doctors' test sensitivity in sever several a ways First they made careful Investigation investigation investigation In in- of your record to determine determine determine deter deter- mine whether you become ill with any of the known symptoms after eating certain foods Another method Is to make a slight scratch on tho the skin and place on this scratch a drop of a concentrated extract extract ex ex- ex- ex tract of the protein of the food con con- If you are sensitive you react with a red spot or an tion ion Inject Extract A still more delicate test is to inject Inject Inject in- in In In- a tiny amount of the extract extrac under the skin with a hypodermic needle Sensitivity reveals itself by spread of swelling from the point of Injection to an area up to an inch in diameter If you are sensitive to a food you may become sick from a single spoonful of it and yet be able to ea eat 20 times Umes tho the amount of some other food substance without having a symptom Moreover if It you are arc sensitive sensitive sen sen- to one member of a family o of food substances you are likely t to react unpleasantly to all members member of that family You can see from all this that in such cases scientific investigation by bya a physician is necessary for proper prope diagnosis Besides the skin test there is the f trial and error method of determining determining determining deter deter- mining the presence of sensitivity Thus the patient may go on a simple diet containing a few food substances substances substances sub sub- stances to which he knows he is no not sensitive and then gradually addone addone add one food at a time observing the reactions and marking the ones which cause symptoms of distress Other Causes In a recent analysis of oo cases of people who suffered after alter eating onions cabbage and apples were found to cause the most trouble Then came chocolate radishes to tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes to- to matoes cucumbers and eggs alter after that fats greasy and rich foods strawberries and coffee Of course not all the trouble alter after eating foods is due to sensitivity There are arc people whose bowels apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap are Irritated by chemical factors associated with certain foods Among the foods which seem to cause the least amount of trouble to the most people are lamb gelatin butter rice barley tapioca lima or string beans cooked apples beets asparagus peas potatoes turnips parsnips artichokes pumpkins cooked pears and weak tea |