Patient, who was briefly gluten-intolerant in 2022, is now dairy-free, seed-oil-free, nightshade-cautious, and 'doesn't do mushrooms'. A family dinner requires a 14-point menu review.
New restrictions added quarterly. None are ever removed.
No treatment. Bring your own food.
Patients with Terminal Dietary-Restriction Creep typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Dietary-Restriction Creep was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Prohibitio alimentaria progressiva โ fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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