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Guidance for patients undertaking particular treatments: patient information sheets

In this section of our website we include some guidance for patients undertaking particular types of complementary therapies at our centres. In some cases this guidance will be related to diets, for instance exclusion diets.

Each entry in this section will consist of a separate web page, to make the information readily available, but there will also be a link on each individual page to a PDF version of the page. This PDF file will be downloadable, and could also be printed.

We intend to add more items in this section of the website.

Links to individual patient guidance pages:

Avoidance Diets Additive Sensitivity Anti-Candida Diet Beef & Pork-Free Diet Citrus-Free Diet Corn-Free Diet Egg-free Diet Milk and Dairy-Free Diet Oat-Free Diet Rye-Free Diet Soya-Free Diet Sugar-Free Diet Wheat-Free Diet (Gluten-free) Yeast-Free Diet

Dietary Advice Anti-Candida Diet: sample menus Anti-Candida Regime Basic Healing Diet Calcium: good dietary sources Foods containing Lecithin Foods containing Salicylates Foods containing Sodium Foods containing Sugar Food Reintroduction Guidelines Healthy Eating Lipids - Cholesterol, Lipoproteins and Triglycerides Live Yeast Low Tyramine Diet Magnesium: good dietary sources Vitamin D: good dietary sources Zinc: good dietary sources

Please note: We will be adding more Guidance Pages in the next few days

The following statement applies to any restricted diets described in these pages:

Please note that any diets and dietary advice in the Patient Guidance section of our website are only intended for the patients attending our own clinics in Southampton and London. These diets are based on a recommendation made by one of the Centre doctors after an appropriate consultation. Our advice relating to use of a particular restricted diet is only appropriate for individual patients who have consulted us and have been individually assessed by one of the doctors from the Centre and advised that they should follow a particular dietary regime. We usually recommend complete dietary avoidance of the suggested food for the first 4 to 6 weeks so we can be sure about our individual diagnosis of food intolerance. We do not recommend that people use restricted diets without proper medical supervision. We also recommend to our patients that they should not use a restricted diet for more than 6 weeks in the first instance without further consultation with us, as it may result in nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes food exclusion diets may be clinically effective in the long term, but their management will require a balanced nutritional approach.

We hope that visitors to our website who are not our patients will find much to interest them in this website; we aim to present useful, practical, considered and authoritative information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine. We strongly advise that you should not follow a restricted diet without proper medical supervision by a qualified practitioner.