Food Allergies

[a2jc4life]

Sounds like semantics to me.  Many forms of food sensitivities can legitimately be called allergies, as they're also immune-mediated, unlike digestive difficulties due to lack of enzymes.  It's clearer, though, to call them intolerances, and reserve the term "allergies" for the hives & anaphylaxis variety.

Regardless, the simplest way to locate recipes you can eat with those limitations is probably searching for paleo options.  Double-check anything you find, but it's a whole lot easier to double-check the things you expect are already likely to be okay than to read all the ingredients on everything at random.

I would go with what an MD or DO would tell you. The acupuncturist might even be practicing beyond her legal scope of practice. Dietitians need to know exactly what's going on to come up with the best diet plan. In medicine, it's not semantics. Pneumonia that is caused by a virus can't be treated the same as pneumonia caused by bacteria.

That isn't even remotely the same thing.  Of course a bacterial illness and a viral illness aren't treated the same.  But food allergies and food sensitivities are -- by avoiding the food.  Whether you need to avoid the food because of an IgG-mediated immune response or because of an enzyme deficiency is, for practical purposes, irrelevant.  Either way, the solution is to not eat the food.  Which is what the OP is asking for information about how to do.

In my experience, most health providers -- whether conventional or alternative/complementary -- tell you what to do and leave you on your own to figure out how.  (And then grumble about "lack of compliance."   )

As someone who has no "traditional" food allergies, but has lots of tried-and-tested other issues with digestion & food, I can guarantee it's much more helpful to offer practical help than just shoot down someone's choice of healthcare providers.