The most important initial experiment is to require that a sick patient stop eating the food that is making him ill long enough that the pathological processes subside and symptoms clear. An elemental nutrient formula, free of protein and peptide antigens can supply complete nutrition and allows a patient to continue long enough to experience remission - 10 to 20 days is the expected time of symptom clearing. Dr. Theron Randolph and Dr. Fredrick Speer also associated a similar symptom complex with food and inhalant allergies. A number of popular books have followed and advanced the idea of diet revision to solve these non-specific illness problems. The idea in all this literature was that the immune mechanisms responsible for broad clinical spectrum went beyond the mechanism revealed by skin tests and that diagnosis and treatment of food allergy involved empirical diet revision.
Patients often discount or fail to report long-term, chronic or recurrent symptoms.
They often believe they will be considered hypochondriacs if they tell it all. Symptoms of a mild ADS are often intermittent and ambiguous. A new factor such as move to a new home, a change in eating habits, a viral infection, an injury, childbirth, or a drug reaction may precipitate sudden decompensation with collapse into a more disabling illness. The Continuous Activity of Immune Networks To develop a useful clinical understanding of hypersensitivity disease, it is necessary to think of immune networks as continuously active in the human body. A dynamic model of immune networks reveals that mobile cell populations produce evanescent events that are continuously evolving.