food intolerance

[squarehead]

My six year old has always been very very snotty, and does the biggest sneezes you've ever seen (in your life) on a daily basis. I am beginning to wonder whether she has a food intolerance, but I am unsure how to go about finding out what. I don't think my GP would take it seriously, so I would prefer to get to the bottom of it myself.
What kinds of foods should I try eliminating? Does anyone know where I can get more information?
Does anyone else have experience of this?
Incase it helps, she is also quite windy and has excema and asthma as well. Not sure whether these things are related...

Might be worth a trip to your gp. what they going to do? make you wear a clown suit and laugh heartily? so what bollocks to them.

i am sure if you explain constant cold, asthma excema there mayy be further tests to do?

Gps are often badly informed about food intolerance because they get so little training about it. Either borrow this book from your library or buy it www.amazon.co.uk/Allergy-Bible-Understanding-Diagnosing-Intolerances/dp/1844001725

It may not be a food intolerance, it could be allergic rhinitis. However I would suggest you either introduce probiotics (live yoghurt or supplement from health food store) into your child's diet or switch to goats and sheeps milk products. Even if your child suffers from allergic rhinitis you may find milk makes it worse. I'd probably try 2 weeks of probiotics first. If it helps omit them for 2 weeks and see if it gets worse again. If it doesn't help avoid cows dairy for two weeks.

Yes eczema and asthma often have an allergic component but not always. It is pretty hard to get a referral from a gp and you are more likely to get one if you try some things out yourself first.

thanks for the tip. will try those things.