ELIMINATION PROGRAMME FOR ALLERGY

You have a choice of four ways in which to eliminate chemicals from your environment in order to test what you are sensitive to:

• totally avoid one or a small number of specific chemicals

• eliminate chemicals in one area of your life (e.g. clothing or cosmetics)

• create an oasis in one room

• have a radical clear-out

Selective strategies

The first two strategies are usually where people start, as they are much less disruptive and can, if you pick on the obvious candidates first time, bring quick results.

If you choose the second strategy, to pick off selected areas of your life, use the various relevant sections in this book to help you in your avoidance.

The drawbacks of the selective approaches is that you sometimes get confusing results. The first strategy can turn out to be very difficult, that it is almost impossible to eliminate a specific chemical. The second strategy often fails because you are only eliminating certain chemicals partially – you may not get benefits or clear results until you go much further. You may think that you are not sensitive to a particular chemical when in fact you are, and your symptoms would clear if you were more thorough about elimination.

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