DONTs:

• Soft cheeses with a white, “mouldy” rind, such as Brie and Camembert, and blue-veined cheeses like Stilton
• Raw seafood, such as oysters or sushi
• Pate, raw or undercooked meat, poultry, and eggs (cook all meat until there are no pink bits left and eggs till they are hard)
• Raw egg (i.e. home-made mayonnaise, mousse – supermarket mayonnaise is ok, i.e. Heinz)
• Bananas & lamb – risk of birthmarks … Chinese superstition (take with pinch of salt .. the superstition not the bananas / lamb)
• Shark, swordfish or marlin (as if)
• Liver & liver products (pate, liver sausage) because they may contain large amounts of the retinol form of vitamin A
• Peanuts
• Alcohol
• Caffeine – coffee, tea, coke …

LIMIT:

• Stock / salt
• Oily fish, such as fresh tuna (no more than 2 times per week), salmon, trout and herring

DOs:

• Milk – at least 3 glasses per day
• Folic acid
• White fish - cod, haddock, coley, plaice & sea bass
• Regular exercise
• Fruit juices + fruit smoothies

OK Medication:

• Paracetemol
• Rennie