The Hidden Sinusitis Causes

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Would you be surprised if you discovered that one of your sinusitis causes deals with what goes in your mouth?

Curiously enough what you're putting in your mouth may have a profound effect on your sinuses.

That's because your immune system reaction to hidden food allergies or sensitivities may target your sinuses and cause inflammation that leads to swelling of the mucous membranes, congestion, pain and obstruction or chronic post nasal drainage.

Abnormal immune responses to dairy products commonly cause problems in the respiratory tract. Discerning a food allergy symptom becomes difficult because we eat a lot of the same foods over and over again almost every day.

Of course, you will know it's a reaction to a food when you immediately experience hives or swelling. But often the manifestations of food reactions occur up to two days after you have eaten it. By then you don't even remember what you ate 2 days ago, so how can you possibly link it to that ice cream you ate that day or the yogurt you ate yesterday.

The best way to test yourself to see if a food reaction is the cause of your sinusitis is to completely eliminate that food from your diet for a least 5 full days. However, if dairy culprits are the problem, you need to eliminate them for at least 2 weeks.

That means not eating any little smidgen of anything that has milk in it or is derived from milk. So you have to read labels carefully. Avoid food containing any of these items derived from milk: milk, buttermilk, yogurt, cottage cheese, all cheese, butter, casein, whey, lactose, anything that says "caseinated", smoothies, shakes, and ice cream.

Pay attention to your body. It takes about 5 days to get a food out of you system. Then you may start feeling better. Do you have less mucous drainage? Has that sinus headache decreased? Are you more mentally alert and beginning to feel better overall? Does your gut feel better?

Stay off dairy products and keep listening to your body for a full two weeks because it can take that long for the dairy-induced inflammation to die down in your body.

If your sinuses feel great at the end of that 2 week period of dairy abstention, then you have found your answer and now you know how to keep your sinuses healthy.

If your sinuses are not perfectly well after avoiding dairy products, you could have more than one food allergy or sensitivity and you will have to eliminate the others to find your sinusitis causes. After all if you have 3 tacks in your foot and you only remove 1 of them, you won't notice much difference in your pain level.

Now the sleuthing becomes a little more difficult, but you can do it.

These are the most common food allergens:
Dairy
Yeast
Corn
Soy
Wheat
Sugar

Now you're saying what's left to eat because you realize you eat all of those things every day. Be careful to check the ingredients list on any packaged foods. They all have one or more of the above ingredients in them.

Here's the answer. Eat only meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts and low gluten grains for at least 5 days. It's really a fun way to eat. You simply don't eat any packaged food.

Eat chicken, fish, turkey, eggs, or beef with a salad that includes a variety of colors of vegetables. You can add a non-gluten grain such as rice, wild rice, millet, teff or quinoa.

Make soups, stir-fries or delicious salads. Prepare enough food in the evening to last you the next 24 hours and divide it into 3-5 meals, ready to eat at the appropriate times.

If your sinuses clear after six days of faithfully following the eating plan, then you know that food allergies are involved in your sinus problem.

But which food is the culprit?

Add one eliminated food back into your diet every three days so you can detect any delayed reactions. Because you haven't been exposed to a food for 5 days, when you eat it all by itself, you will experience stronger more obvious symptoms.

Be on the alert for a food allergy reaction for 48 hours. That food allergy symptom may be delayed up to 48 hours after eating the culprit food. Do you have that nasal or post nasal drainage again? Is the sinus headache coming back?

If your sinuses stay clear you can test the next food three days later. Continue to add an eliminated food back into your diet every 3 days. Eat only that food between meals to test it.

If you've spent lots of money and time searching for resolution of your sinus problems to no avail, you will be delighted to know that your sinusitis causes may be lurking right under your nose in the form of food allergies.



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