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FAILSAFE stands for Free of Additives, Low in Salicylates, Amines and Flavour Enhancers and is Sue Dengate’s term for the comprehensive low-chemical, low-reactive exclusion diet formulated by allergists at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Australia.
The failsafe diet is designed to treat intolerances or sensitivities to specific chemicals in foods. The diet is not designed to treat allergies. Reactions to food chemicals are pharmacological and dose-related rather than immune-system related, but they cause a number of symptoms that can appear to be allergy-like. It is important to understand the difference between food allergy and food chemical intolerance.
Though the failsafe diet has been around since the 1980’s, few people have heard of it outside of Australia. A forerunner to the failsafe diet is the Feingold diet, an incomplete salicylate exclusion diet that is now outdated. Food chemical intolerances are quite common, but a lack of knowledge about the syndrome means that symptoms are rarely understood by the layperson or the medical practitioner, and are usually dismissed as allergies, psychological, or idiosyncratic.
The failsafe diet:
The failsafe diet:
The failsafe diet has turned out to help a wide range of different genetic and idiosyncratic health problems. These include:
The failsafe diet is designed to treat intolerances or sensitivities to specific chemicals in foods. The diet is not designed to treat allergies. Reactions to food chemicals are pharmacological and dose-related rather than immune-system related, but they cause a number of symptoms that can appear to be allergy-like. It is important to understand the difference between food allergy and food chemical intolerance.
Though the failsafe diet has been around since the 1980’s, few people have heard of it outside of Australia. A forerunner to the failsafe diet is the Feingold diet, an incomplete salicylate exclusion diet that is now outdated. Food chemical intolerances are quite common, but a lack of knowledge about the syndrome means that symptoms are rarely understood by the layperson or the medical practitioner, and are usually dismissed as allergies, psychological, or idiosyncratic.
The failsafe diet:
- Cuts out around fifty common food additives
- Cuts out most fruit and many vegetables
- Cuts out aged and fermented foods like cheese and hung beef
- Sometimes cuts out gluten and casein, depending on the individual
- Is based around bland, low reactive foods
- Is personalised to the patient’s needs, based on food trial challenges
- Requires blinded capsule challenges wherever possible
The failsafe diet:
- Is scientific a diet developed by hospital doctors who are specialists in food allergy
- Is NOT complementary, alternative medicine, or quackery
The failsafe diet has turned out to help a wide range of different genetic and idiosyncratic health problems. These include:
- ADHD/ADD
- Autism and asperger’s syndrome
- Pervasive Developmental Disorders
- GERD, IBS, and intractable coeliac disease (that does not respond to gluten removal alone)
- ME, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
- Pseudo-allergic rashes and skin problems
- Asthma and eczema
