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EPD diet
This diet is necessary for patients who know they are food sensitive for 12 hours before and 24 hours after EPD treatment. A ‘dose’ of a food you are sensitive to combined with the EPD dose may block the effects of the treatment, and might theoretically cause increased sensitivity. If you are having EPD only for inhalants (e.g. hay fever or dust mite allergy), you will not need to follow these dietary instructions. Please see the hay fever instruction sheet for more information.
As many food allergens cross react with other foods in the desensitising process, it is not enough to simply omit the foods to which you know you are allergic.
The diet below contains the foods most likely to be ‘safe’. However, you may need to omit any of these to which you suspect you may have a sensitivity.
You can eat:
- Lamb, rabbit or fresh fish
- Sweet potatoes, yams
- Ordinary potatoes (less safe, omit if sensitivity suspected)
- Tapioca, sago
- Cooked carrot/celery/swede/cabbage
- Lettuce (no dressing, avoid the heart)
- Rhubarb
- Cooked pears
- Lamb fat/dripping, hard margarines (e.g. granose)
- Fructose (or fruit sugar: this is usually available in large supermarkets and health food shops).
- Sea salt
- Bottled water; flat or fizzy (aim for 8 glasses a day, preferably bottled in glass bottles)
Avoid:
- Herbs and spices, as many cross reactions
- Alcohol, tea and coffee, soft drinks, fruit juices
- Anything not on the above list
Diet from 24 hours to 4 days after treatment:
Small doses of foods you are allergic to will not affect the EPD, but large doses will.
If you are sensitive to only a few foods, just continue to avoid them for these 3 days.
If you are sensitive to many foods, add small portions of many other foods to the EPD diet suggested above, (but still exclude any food you may have had an anaphylactic type reaction to).