People sometimes react unexpectedly to a food that they normally tolerate, if they are under a great deal of load or stress.
If you have multiple sensitivity – are allergic or sensitive to many other things – sometimes the overall load seems to affect your system. Your tolerance drops unexpectedly and you start reacting to many things at once. High pollen season or high mould season often seems to bring on food sensitivity in people who are fine at other times of the year. Exposure to places with high levels of chemical fumes can bring on food reactions, often temporarily. Eating too much of foods to which you react, but which you tolerate normally at low levels of consumption, can tip you over into reacting more often. Watch out for triggers of this kind. Test foods again when your system is less under stress.
The process of exclusion dieting sometimes brings on temporary intolerances as well, which disappear once a permanent diet is established. Some people seem to go into a downward spiral, starting to react to many things which normally they tolerate. If you react to a lot of things suddenly on an exclusion diet, it does not mean the situation is permanent – it is sometimes just the body’s response to the process of testing. Test foods less often and less intensively – spread out testing to wider intervals if you can possibly do so, to give your system a rest.
Women are prone to react more to foods at times when their hormones are fluctuating – at ovulation in mid-cycle, or at pre-menstrual times. See if your food reactions correspond to your menstrual cycle. If your cycle is erratic, look back at when reactions occurred and see if there is any pattern. Hormonal surges at the menopause, or during and after pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, can bring on temporary food sensitivity.
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