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Over 20 years ago, the Lancet published a study which showed that food intolerance affects the symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Twenty-one patients with IBS followed a strict elimination diet (no other tests were done) which consisted of one meat, one fruit and distilled or spring water for one week. For 14 of the patients, the symptoms disappeared. Then the patients reintroduced single foods, one at a time, and recorded their reactions. The following foods evoked symptoms: wheat (9 patients), corn (5), dairy products (4), coffee (4), tea (3), citrus fruits (2). Biopsies were carried out on the nine cases of wheat intolerance and proved that they did not have coeliac disease. Their blood was analysed, and this confirmed that the symptoms were mediated at least in part by prostaglandins, but that an immunological mechanism did not seem to be involved.

Since complying with such a strict elimination diet may be very difficult for some, it makes it extremely difficult to use this type of testing method for every patient.