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How to use the Symptoms Matrix |
The Symptoms Matrix is useful because it allows you to narrow the possibilities of which foods cause your problems. It will not give you a positive identification of which food it is. (For a positive id you need to do the Detection Diet in The Food Intolerance Healing Program.)
But for the moment let's just narrow the field of possible culprits of your particular collection of symptoms.
Firstly, notice at the top of each column there is a link to a type of food intolerance - Dairy, Yeast etc. If your symptoms fall mostly in one column then there is a good chance you have that intolerance (the column heading).
Secondly, there are nine symptom types for food intolerance. Which type(s) are yours?
- Body weight
- Gastro-intestinal
- General
- Genital/urinary
- Malabsorption
- Musculo-skeletal
- Neurological
- Respiratory
- Skin disorder
The second column is the symptom type and may give you some clue to your symptoms. For example if you have a lot of fungal infections like thrush and tinea you can see it is associated with Yeast Sensitivity.
On the other hand Gastro-intestinal symptoms (to do with the stomach and intestines) are common to several types of food intolerance, but are not particularly linked to food allergy. Which are you?
Find each of your symptoms in the first column and then trace across to see which columns have a dot. Do this one by one for each symptom, eg. headache, stomach bloating, hives etc. (You might like to print the Symptoms Matrix and mark your symptoms on the page with an "X".)
You need to take a few minutes and do this carefully because there are lots of symptoms of food intolerance and food allergy.
Basically you are looking for a pattern that matches up with your collection of symptoms. Remember, you may have more than one food intolerance.
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