Food related symptoms include those which are persistent and not responsive to usual management. Gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea, reflux or regurgitation, diarrhoea and constipation, and which are provoked by eating have an effect on eating itself. When loss of appetite, poor food intake and weight loss is ongoing, dietary assessment is a first step to looking at potential dietary causes. Carine can help with the conditions below, select the most appropriate combination of dietary treatment for young people.
- Abdominal pain
- Coeliac disease
- Chronic Constipation
- Diarrhoea
- Food allergy or sensitivity
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Lactose Intolerance
- Unexplained Weight Loss
Food allergy symptoms vary widely between young people, some of whom may have lived with food allergy since their early years and some whom e have become food sensitive as teenagers. An allergy focused clinical history is the first step in considering dietary treatment for those with a history of food allergy.