Hello all,
I hope that this information will be helpful. I had aa once 14 years ago. I had a couple of small patches on the back of my head, I got the cortisone shots and it went away within a year. 2 months ago I noticed a patch on the side of my head. I went to get the shots but they weren't stopping the hair from falling out. Everyone kept telling me to relax and that stress probably caused this. But I didn't feel stressed out and that just didn't ring true to me. My hair falling out is what was stressing me out. I searched all over the internet for a cure or anything that would help. The more I looked for a cure the more depressed I became because every site said there is nothing to do but to accept it, that aa has a mind of it's own. Every day the hair would continue to fall out. The patch on my head is 3" by 2" some may say that isn't that big but I have a small head! And it wasn't stopping. I started looking at other options and found a naturopath in NYC. He was confident he could help me. He said auto immune disorders are commonly linked to food allergies. He put me on a strict elimination diet and after 7 days on the diet, my hair stopped falling out completely. But not only did it stop falling out, my scalp felt normal again. Since it had started my scalp was always itchy, burning and irriated, I couldn't forget about the aa even if I wanted to. I didn't have any other symptoms (felt great) so I had no idea that it could be a food allergy. I started the diet 2 weeks ago, so I haven't reintroduced any foods yet so I dont know what was causing the problem. If anyone would like to try this diet, here is what I did.

Foods to avoid:

1. glutinous grains: wheat, rye, barley, and oats including flours
2. all dairy
3. eggs
4. corn
5. soy (tofu, tempeh, etc)
6. peanuts (make sure to look on packages of other types of nuts that they weren't packaged on the same belt as peanuts) I found that most nuts are packaged with peanuts, so avoid these as well.
7. citrus fruits (oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes)
8. yeast
9. refined sugars
10. highly processed food, chemicals, additives, preservatives, artificial coloring, flavorings
11. caffeine (coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks) even decaf coffee has some caffeine in it so this should be avoided as well. herbal tea is ok

*You may have white rice, brown rice, quinoa, rice pasta, meat (no cold cuts, hot dogs, nothing processed), chicken, fish, among all of the other vegetables and fruits. To give my food flavor I cook with a lot of salt and pepper and garlic.

It is important to read the labels of any foods you eat during the elimination period. These ingredients are included in many food that you wouldn't necessarily think of. For example, many drinks and snacks are sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, which comes from corn. Likewise, anything containing the following words probably contains wheat flour: stabilizer, starch, malt, flavoring, emulsifier, or hydrolyzed plant protein.


After the elimination diet, you introduce one food at a time. You consume a lot of the that food to test it's reaction. Once you have identified which foods you react to, avoid eating those for six months. After 6 months, you may retest the foods by introducing them.











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