• This routine is very challenging. Can I do too much in one day?
• What is a realistic time frame for accomplishing my treatment goals?
• Am I staying within my budget?

The staff is prepared to help you answer these questions.

Day 3 continues testing of foods. If you are food sensitive the testing goal is to have 24-30 non-reactive foods. Non-reactive foods are foods to which you show no skin or symptom response when testing. It is a good time after food testing to set up your rotation diet and vitamin/mineral therapy program. Understanding how to rotate your foods is a vital part of your healing process.

What's rotation diet? Many people have one or more food sensitivities. The difficulty of dealing with food sensitivity has been tremendously increased by the modern-day trend toward commercial truck farming and factory processed foods.

Forty or fifty years ago farmers grew their food without insecticides, herbicides, and other such chemicals. Today, theses are known as less-chemically contaminated foods. People did most of their own canning and preserving. They also made their own cakes and puddings, sauces, soups, catsup mayonnaise, and ice cream from "scratch. " Now most of these products are bought ready-made, and the public is to a large extent ignorant of the contents of the food they are eating. It is only within recent years that the actual ingredients of these factory processed foods has been shown on the package labels. Even now not all labels are explicit.

There is great variability and availability of brand name foods. It is important everyone search out those foods to which they are not sensitive. There is no such thing as a universally safe food. Any "health" food, "organic" food, or "non-organic" food could be harmful if you are sensitive to it..

There are two types of rotation diets:

• monorotation - one single food item per meal
• liberalized rotation - two to four items per meal

• Eat no food more often than once every four days. A food eaten on Monday may not be eaten again until Friday.
• Omit all "junk" food item (candies, cakes, pies, cookies, soft drinks, etc., processed/prepared food containing additives, preservatives, and/or/food coloring).
• Less-chemically contaminated foods are a necessity. Canned fruits and/or vegetables are discouraged.
• Season only with sea salt (regular salt may contain dextrose and other ingredients).
• Foods may be eaten raw or cooked (steamed, boiled, broiled, baked, or fried in its own fat.
• Spring water in glass containers is preferred for drinking and cooking.
• Herb teas can be rotated as alternatives to daily coffee and tea.
• Space meals at least three to four hour apart.
• Do not eat longer than one hour at each meal.
• If a reaction occurs after eating, (bloating, distention, gas, etc.) try one of the following:
  • 1/2 teaspoon powdered vitamin C in a glass of water
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda in a glass of water followed by  another glass of water
  • 1 teaspoon Bi/Tri Salts in a glass of water followed by another glass of water.
    • Bi/Tri Salts:
      • 3 part sodium bicarbonate
      • 2 parts potassium bicarbonate
      • 1 part calcium carbonate

  Histamine and/or Serotonin can be taken for reactions. Take injections 30 minutes apart. Each may be taken up to 4 times a day.

If reaction continues for two hours after first dose, repeat vitamin C or salts and take a laxative - unflavored Milk of Magnesia, 4 ounces followed by 2 glasses of water.

Here is more information you can download about rotation diet.

What do I do next?

After foods, inhalants are usually tested. What are inhalants? They are airborne incitants, which are protein in nature. They consist of dust, dust mites, molds, pollens, animal danders, terpenes, and smuts. These are  tested depending  on the patient's history and the pattern of symptoms.

Pollens: Primary and regional wee, tree, and grass mixes are usually tested. Primary mixes contain the same allergens for all sections of the United States. Regional mixes reflect your particular locale. Check the regional mixes to be sure they include predominant pollens in your area. This can help your testing and treatment. Skin testing of pollens can be by each individual item or you may be allowed to titrate depending on you level of sensitivity. The Center offers global incitant testing. Booster antigens are available for those particular pollens that are bothersome to you at certain times of the year. Boosters can be taken up to four times a day for relief of symptoms.

Skin testing of dust includes dust mites. Those nasty little critters seem to be everywhere we humans live especially in our beds. Here's a tip! Just by placing all your bed coverings and pillows into the dryer for an hour monthly can reduce the dust mite level.

Molds are biological incitants. They can not only affect allergy and disease but can also produce mycotoxins. If you have had an exposure to a particular mold, it would be helpful to you to include mold into your testing. Mold testing can take a long time especially if you are very sensitive as there are many individual molds.

For future use in your home or office we offer a mold testing kit which you may purchase at the American Environmental Health Foundation when you need it for testing your environments for molds.

Smuts, grass, and grain are similar to molds. The testing and treatment arranged for these substances can be appropriate for the mold sensitive. Terpenes are the organic chemicals emitted by aromatic weeds and trees. This testing can offer effective treatment for the inhalant and chemically sensitive person.

Update your testing summary sheet.

Follow your new rotary diet pattern.

Now it's time for a break! You could try a new place for lunch  today, as there are lots of restaurants in Dallas, several organic food markets with deli's, or you can bring your own lunch and eat sitting at the tables outside - that is weather permitting and if you are not sensitive to the outside.

On to Day 4.