Rebecca Seal

And almost all of those things were in the menu of foods that I had eaten, which I did deliberately.

I wanted to see if that would happen and lo, it did.

So yeah.

Yes, that's literally all it's saying.

If you drink milk, you create IgG to milk.

If you eat cuttlefish, you create IgG to cuttlefish.

It's not a problem.

It's your body doing exactly what it should be doing.

So the hair test told me I needed to minimise my consumption of high reactivity items as much as possible.

That meant no more apples, almonds, coconut or banana, as well as iridium and sulphur and various additives.

Iridium is 40 times rarer than gold.

I have probably never come into contact with it.

So the idea that I could be sensitive to it is just bonkers.

Yeah.

So the two damaging things that these results can create is disordered eating.

So it can push people in the direction of really, really restricted diets.

And it can be associated with things like orthorexia and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder.

The second thing that it can do is...

especially with children, is it can actually contribute to the development of a true IgE allergy of the sort that can create anaphylaxis.

So with very small children and weaning babies, the best and safest thing has been shown to introduce and keep allergens like milk, dairy, fish, nuts, tree nuts, sesame in their diets when they're really little, so six months and up.