• Register & make your payment (The eClinic costs US$34.00 – for a 3-month access).
• You answer a series of detailed questions about your symptoms and foods.
• Get your individual specific recommendations from Dr Ford (this is in the form of “eClinic Allergy eReport”).
• Take your “eReport” to your health professional for a consultation to arrange an examination, and any recommended diagnostic tests or treatment.
• When your tests have been done, you return to the eClinic to enter these test results into your “Results” section.  You get Dr Ford’s personal interpretation and opinion on the meaning of your specific test results.
• Take your “Test Results Interpretation eReport” back to your health practitioner for another consultation to carry out the next steps of your management.
• Revisit the eClinic whenever you need over the next 3 months.
• Download any relevant management information for the website - see "InfoLinks".
• Join up your other family members if appropriate.

• The fee is US$34.00 for 3-months access.
• Additional family members can be enrolled for the same price, US$34.00 each.

• Your individual eClinic consultation management advice (in collaboration with your health practitioner).
• A $2 contribution to the “Canterbury Medical Research Foundation”.
• Expert interpretation of blood tests and skin tests.
• Full access to all of the eClinic “InfoLinks”.
• Option to purchase “Your eClinic Management Guide: symptoms, management and treatment” eBook.
• Participation in Dr Ford’s “Feed-back Forum” – Where you can improve the eClinic experience.
• Access to Dr Ford’s research papers and articles.
• Opportunity to submit your own story and feedback on Food Allergy/Intolerance issues. You can become an author on this site.
• Opportunity to submit articles to the newsletter.

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There are thousands of pieces of information on the eClinic website.  It can be overwhelming.  To make the information relevant to your individual needs, Dr Ford has arranged his advice in “InfoLinks”.  When he gives his opinion or interpretation, he has linked this to more in-depth articles that you can read by just a click.  To help you even more, he has also collected all of these “InfoLinks” together in his eBook “Your eClinic Management Guide: symptoms, management and treatment”.

• Yes, you can trust Dr Ford and the process of the eClinic.
• Dr Rodney Ford is a Paediatric Specialist, Gastroenterologist and Nutrition Consultant.  He has 30 years of experience in working in clinics in general paediatrics, gastroenterology and food intolerance/allergy.  He is a world authority on the Gluten Syndrome.  He is the medical brains behind the eClinic Project.
• His patients at his “Children’s Gastroenterology and Allergy Clinic” (also known as The Children’s Clinic) in Christchurch, New Zealand, highly respect his caring and management of their children.
• He has extensively published and presented on the areas of nutrition, food allergy, gluten sensitivity, celiac disease, the gluten syndrome, and eczema.
• Dr Ford has also pioneered work in cot death (SIDS), breastfeeding, smoking cessation in pregnancy and apnoea.     
• Dr Ford, with Chris Ford and Liz Fazakarley, have written nine books on food allergy, gluten and nutritional health to inform on the adverse affects of food on our health. These books are easy to read and extremely informative.
• He is the first to describe The Gluten Syndrome.
• Dr Ford has now created the eClinic so that he can help and benefit even more people. He says that he has put his medical brain on the web.

• Yes, Dr Ford guarantees the eClinic Process.
• Dr Ford guarantees that if you are dissatisfied with his advice given through the eClinic, then he offers you a money-back-guarantee (he will ask you to describe your satisfaction, so that he can learn to give an even better experience for other people).
• Dr Ford states that all the management and interpretations are based on sound scientific medical research and observations.
• Dr Ford is making his research findings available to you on the “Research” pages of this webpage.
• Dr Ford guarantees that he is a fully qualified Paediatric Allergy and Gastroenterology Specialist.
• Dr Ford holds a current “Practicing Certificate” from the Medical Council of New Zealand.
• Dr Ford holds current membership of the “Royal Australasian College of Physicians” (FRACP).

• 1) Main concerns
• 2) Diet | foods
• 3) Diet | allergy/intolerance
• 4) Symptoms | skin
• 5) Symptoms | breathing
• 6) Symptoms | abdomen/tummy
• 7) Symptoms | energy/behaviour.

• 1) Gluten | Celiac tests
• 2) Specific allergy tests.

• Browse the vast information content to understand the concepts about allergy, food allergy/intolerance.
• Log-on and become a registered member (this is free of charge).  This allows you to access much more of the eClinic website.
• Do the (free) Allergy Pre-test that gives you a feel about how the eClinic works.  
• Go to the eClinic: have your individual “allergy consultation” with the eClinic, where you can create your own personal allergy profile (called your “eClinic Allergy eReport”) which will take you about 20 minutes to do.
• Follow Dr Ford’s Blog – where he tells you about his latest thoughts about his patients and new research.
• Participate in discussions on the Blog and give your feedback.

The most common symptoms are:

• Eczema/ rashes
• Tummy pain/ bloating
• Constipation/ diarrhoea
• Irritability/ tiredness
• Headache/migraine
• Learning problems/ behaviour issues

Huge numbers of people have undiagnosed food allergy/intolerance and gluten sensitivity. The eClinic can help you work out whether you also might have an intolerance problem.

• Do you think there is something wrong with your child - but you do not know what?
• Does your child have symptoms – but you are unsure what to do next?
• Do you suspect a food allergy/intolerance - but do not know how to get qualified and knowledgeable medical help?

These are some of the reasons to go to the eClinic.

You own health practitioner will need help with:

• Getting your physical examination.
• Organising the recommended blood tests and/or skin prick tests.
• Arranging any special milk formulas.
• Having appropriate medications prescribed.
• Organising any X-rays, or other procedures.
• Referral to any relevant specialists or dieticians.

You might like to ask your doctor to help you enter the blood tests results into your Allergy Profile at the eClinic.
The eClinic concept is to give my specialist paediatric advice through your medical practitioner.   

• Expert allergy help is difficult to access.  The purpose of the eClinic is to breakdown this barrier.  Now everyone can have instant access to professional medical allergy help.
• By setting up the eClinic, Dr Rodney Ford has allowed access to appropriate blood tests, diagnostic systems and specific treatment plans – for everyone who has access to a computer.
• Dr Ford wants to help meet the need of the quarter of the population who have undiagnosed allergy problems.

• Dr Ford has set up the eClinic for people who are unable to see him (for geographical and/ or financial reasons). 
• It is impossible for Dr Ford to see everyone who wants to see him face-to-face.  There just isn’t the time in the day.  So the only practical solution is this eClinic.
• 10% of the world (half a billion people), or more, are adversely affected by The Gluten Syndrome; but they are unaware of it.  The eClinic Project is to awaken these people to their illness and offer them a solution.  All of these people need this information – but accurate medical help is often not available locally.
• The eClinic is to tell the world about Food Allergy/intolerance and The Gluten Syndrome to help these hundreds of millions of people at last feel well again.  The only way to achieve this is through cyberspace.

• Associate Professor (University of Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine).
• MD (Doctorate in Medicine, NSWU) 1982. Thesis: "Food hypersensitivity in children".
• FRACP (Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians - in Paediatrics) 1981.
• MB BS (Honours, NSWU, Australia) 1972.
• ASM (Accredited Speaker Member of the National Speakers Association, NZ)