A hypoallergenic diet is recommended for all types of allergic reactions. The duration of such a therapeutic diet is determined by the degree of the allergic process.
The main goal of a hypoallergenic diet is to eliminate the causes of the disease, ie to identify foods that lead to rashes and eliminate their harmful effects on the body.
Classic hypoallergenic diet
The classic diet is used in the period of allergy. The duration of the general non-specific diet is from several weeks to two months.
The classic hypoallergenic method is based on the rule of excluding products that are considered highly allergic:
- citrus fruits;
- dairy products;
- fish;
- eggs;
- nuts;
- honey;
- cocoa, chocolate, coffee;
- honey;
- red, orange fruits and vegetables.
There is a list of foods that are allowed to be consumed as part of the diet during the period of allergy. Among the permitted ingredients are various green fruits, vegetables, gluten-free cereals, dairy products.
What is?
The use of a hypoallergenic diet consists ofwhen rejecting certain products that cause allergiesin humans. An allergy can be caused by a substance in one or more foods.
You need to gradually abandon the products. This hypoallergenic way of using the diet allows you to identify the product that causes the allergy.
If the cause of the allergy is a substance that is included in several foods, it will be difficult to identify through the use of a special diet.
Shopping list
There is a classification of hypoallergenic products according to the degree of reaction of the body. It is applicable for children and adults suffering from allergic reactions.
List of foods for hypoallergenic diet:
- products from the group of fermented milk (kefir, fermented baked milk, cottage cheese);
- lean meat (poultry, beef);
- offal can be included in food (liver, tongue, kidneys);
- some low-fat varieties of fish products (cod, sea bass);
- barley, semolina, rice, oats are used in cereal recipes;
- it is allowed to use sunflower, olives, oil;
- the list of vegetables in the diet consists of cucumbers, zucchini, rutabaga, pumpkin, cabbage of different varieties); lettuce, dill, parsley, spinach;
- from fruits and berries, green apples, pears, blackcurrants and white cherries, gooseberries can be included in the diet;
- dried fruits are represented by a list of apples, pears, prunes;
- the menu includes apple and pear compotes, weak tea, non-carbonated mineral water.
Foods that can cause mild to moderate allergies are used in the diet as part of a hypoallergenic diet.
Gradual elimination of food helps to get rid of allergies, if the result is not achieved by refusing highly allergenic components in the menu:
- cereals (wheat, rye);
- buckwheat;
- corn kernels;
- pork, lamb;
- from vegetables Bulgarian pepper, legumes, potatoes;
- peaches, apricots, blackcurrants, blueberries, cranberries, watermelon, banana;
- infusions, decoctions of herbs.
The list of products that can not be used with a hypoallergenic diet, which are excluded immediately when compiling the menu:
- milk and whole milk products;
- cheese;
- eggs;
- fish caviar, fish, seafood;
- smoked, salted, pickled products;
- citrus fruits, colored red, orange;
- from dried fruits: dried apricots, dates, raisins, figs;
- spices;
- from vegetables: tomatoes, red peppers, pumpkin, beets, eggplant, carrots, sorrel, celery;
- mushrooms;
- honey;
- nuts;
- confectionery with chocolate, caramel;
- juices, jellies, carbonated beverages;
- coffee, cocoa;
- products containing food ingredients of non-vegetable origin.
If the rejection of products belonging to one of the groups with a moderate or high allergic reaction did not work, you should consult a doctor to identify the characteristics of the human body.
Diet and menu for the week
A list of foods that should not cause an allergic reaction helps to create a one-week menu for a hypoallergenic diet. To simplify life during the diet, a pre-compiled menu containing a list of dishes for each day helps.
The one-week sample menu applies the rules of a hypoallergenic technique based on the use of products that are least likely to cause allergies.
The hypoallergenic diet consists of dishes presented in the menu for the week:
First day
- For breakfast it is useful for children and adults to serve oatmeal with added fruit, allowed hypoallergenic rules, tea.
- At lunch the menu includes cabbage soup, boiled beef fillet, apple jelly.
- Dinner of porridge cooked in rice, stewed cutlet, kefir 0-1%.
Second day
- The first meal is represented by a cheese sandwich, usually yogurt, tea.
- Lunch of lean soup, compote.
- For dinner the menu offers boiled potatoes, beef goulash, fruit.
Third day
- Breakfast of pasta, tea, fruit.
- For lunch, vegetable and meat soup and compote are served.
- In the evening you can eat boiled fish, fruit, drink tea.
Fourth day
- For breakfast corn porridge, fruit salad, tea.
- The lunch menu consists of borsch in broth prepared from vegetables, steamed cutlet and compote.
- For dinner you can serve meat porridge, vegetable stew, tea.
The fifth day
- Breakfast of millet porridge, tea.
- At lunch the menu offers vegetable and beef soup, fruit, kefir.
- Evening porridge with meat, vegetables, jelly.
Sixth day
- For breakfast you can eat a sandwich with boiled meat, fruit, tea.
- Meat soup, fruit, compote are served at lunch.
- Dinner on the menu includes porridge, salad of chopped cabbage with herbs, kefir.
Seventh day
- The first meal on the menu for a child and an adult consists of a casserole with cottage cheese or fresh cottage cheese with sour cream according to taste preferences, tea.
- For lunch you can eat lean soup, stewed cutlet, compote.
- In the evening the menu includes oatmeal, boiled meat, fruit, yogurt without additives.
A general hypoallergenic diet called "Table 5" is used to compile the menu.
Receptions
Hypoallergenic diet recipes
Recipe for baked apples:
- a green apple;
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- sugar to taste.
Grind the apple pulp, removing the core beforehand. The shape of the apple must be preserved. Combine with cottage cheese and sugar. Put the mixture of apple and cottage cheese in the apple left after cutting the pulp and core. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
For lunch is a suitable recipe for hypoallergenic soup, which is good for health:
- cauliflower 0, 3 kg;
- Hercules 50g;
- water 1l;
- two quail eggs;
- diluted milk mixture 100 g;
- butter.
Boil the cauliflower, grate the vegetables. Boil the oats in vegetable broth for 10 minutes. Pour the cabbage puree, both eggs. The diluted mixture and butter are added after boiling.
As a main dish from the general non-specific hypoallergenic menu, it is useful to eat turkey meat with buckwheat. The recipe consists of products in proportions, based on personal preferences:
- turkey fillet;
- buckwheat;
- onions.
Leave the buckwheat in boiling water for an hour. Boil the turkey fillet, fry the finished meat with onions. Combine the buckwheat with the meat mixture.
Vegetable casserole dinner:
- 3-4 potatoes;
- broccoli 300g;
- cheese.
The volumes of the components of the recipe can be changed according to taste preferences. Put thinly sliced potatoes on the bottom of the form, the next layer is broccoli, sprinkle with cheese. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
For dessert, as part of a hypoallergenic diet, you can offer a recipe for a diet cake.
Ingredients that do not require baking are used for the cake:
- biscuit biscuits;
- cottage cheese;
- fruit puree (eg apple puree);
- bananas.
Arrange the biscuits, curd mixture and fruit puree in a blender and add the banana slices.
Characteristics of the hypoallergenic diet for children
Due to the peculiarities of the child's body, the hypoallergenic technique has a number of nuances.
The diet for children takes into account the restrictions on foods that are more likely to cause allergies:
- egg (mainly yolk);
- milk (cow);
- confectionery based on chocolate, cocoa;
- fish products;
- gluten;
- red fruits and vegetables;
- proteins found in rice, oats, wheat, bananas.
It is advisable to exclude from the menu products that are not natural for the area where the child lives. The pediatrician claims that avoiding exotic foods in the diet helps to solve the problem of allergies in children.
Dietary rules for a nursing mother
The hypoallergenic diet for breastfeeding mothers is the basis of nutrition during breastfeeding. The thing is that in the first years of life the baby may develop an allergy to any food, so feeding should be strict, with the gradual introduction of new foods in very small quantities.
The need to use a diet according to hypoallergenic rules may arise when:
- the presence of allergies to various components in the diet of a nursing mother;
- the occurrence of an allergic reaction in children who are breastfed.
Nutrition in atopic dermatitis
The presence of symptoms of atopic dermatitis is the basis for compliance with the rules of hypoallergenic diet.
Before starting a diet with atopic dermatitis, you should:
- conducting an analysis to identify the source of atopic dermatitis;
- exclude the component completely from the diet if it is a source of dermatitis;
- In a hypoallergenic diet you should divide the food into 5-6 portions a day.
In atopic dermatitis the following list of products is allowed:
- dairy products;
- gluten-free cereals (buckwheat, rice, corn);
- apples with a green tinge, preferably baked;
- dill, parsley;
- soaked boiled potatoes;
- black bread.
It is desirable to exclude:
- egg yolk;
- honey;
- coffee, cocoa, chocolate;
- nuts;
- mustard;
- mushrooms;
- garlic;
- red and orange fruits, vegetables.
- fish and seafood.
As the symptoms of dermatitis decrease, there is a gradual introduction of one of the excluded hypoallergenic products.