No More Milk... Sadly not even Goat, Sheep or Buffalo, it seems :(
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have been struggling with a nasty allergic skin condition as well as allergic asthma, and as I progress through the process of elimination, I am sad to discover that I may not be able to eat any kind of dairy product.
Not goat, sheep or buffalo milk even.
I can't be 100% certain but I didn't have any milk or cheese all of yesterday, after this allergy on my skin got to a point of unbearable, as well as for 3 days in a row seemingly also causing sleeplessness (via H3 histamine, which is part of the mechanism of many stimulants that cause sleeplessness), I decided I have to try eliminating it first, as it is the most likely suspect.
I confirmed I had to eliminate it the first time I was studying this allergy problem when it first flared up while I was at the low security prison in Kazichene in the last 4 months of my 1 year sentence. At that time, basically the only food I could tolerate was literally the shitty cuts of pork back (the spine part). The bread I could tolerate only if I took this nasty old antihistamine called Chloropyramine.
This drug proved to be quite dangerous as I was working through the alcohol detox, and I had a box of it I had been using, which I threw away when I realised that it may have been making my symptoms worse, and potentially more deadly.
So, so far, I have confirmed the following foods are ok for me to eat:
- coconut oil
- lard
- spinach
- lettuce
- carrots
- eggs
- pork, beef, chicken
- oranges
- plums
- apricots
Allergens
I am now uncertain whether parsely is ok, it seems at least the stems may be allergenic. It is possible that apples and pears are allergenic, and I already know that onion (and garlic), tomato (including canola, potato, capsicum and chilli) and melon (including cucumber and pumpkin) families are all out, as are all types of seeds, which includes cashews, almonds peanuts, and numerous incorrectly named 'nuts' that do not sprout before popping open.
Preservatives
I am pretty sure that Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate are both also allergenic. It should not be a surprise, really, since these chemicals are actually present in several of those allergens above (notably benzoates, related to salycilates, present in all three of those families of plants mentioned above).
You may have been told as a child not to eat red berries? These poisonous red berries contain benzoic acid. Also, when benzoic acid is combined with ascorbic acid (as is common with many soft drinks) the toxicity is exacerbated. I think the cause is that the ascorbic acid changes some of the benzoic acid into phenol (No shit, really, you don't want to drink phenol, it's an old, phased out, toxic antiseptic cleaning chemical that used to be used for floor cleaners).
The Plan:
I will be now sticking to what I have confirmed is ok, and introducing one potential candidate for investigation per day, to eliminate confusing the diagnostic process with the question of whether one addition or another.
I am sad to not be able to consume dairy products at all. I even have to eliminate butter, which leaves me with coconut oil and lard as my options for the critical oils in my diet. I need to find where I can get beef dripping. Beef dripping is tasty! It used to be what McDonalds chips were fried in before the margarine anti-saturated-fat campaign started. The distinctive flavour that they still have is even still extract of certain parts of beef dripping.
Well you are doing good! I cant eat the GMO shit its toxic. Sugar doesn't like me any more. The food is shit now almost all of it from the store it doesn't matter what the label says they lie! Colon cleanse is helping me. I dont take any drugs because they are not made to help you.
i've also allergic asthma. do you problems in dust? my doctor even suggested me to avoid pumpkin, shrimp, cucumber.
I suspect that you may also benefit from eliminating the other things that I have listed. Jack Kruse specifically lists them as out in his Epi Paleo Rx, which I have partially based my current diet regime on. Not because I think Kruse is all wise or anything, but because he said it, and I already had proven it to myself 3 years ago when I first got chronic allergic asthma so bad I didn't sleep for 3 days when it first started.
I don't really have any significant problems with dust in general, but some kinds of dust are bad. I do sweep and mop my floor pretty regularly.
Darn, taking all dairy out is bit hard. I actually find that harder than taking out grains. But on the bright side, at least you got to keep eggs. @sift666 and I have both had to take out eggs as well for periods of time.
When you've trialled a few more foods and hopefully found a few more you can have, you might think about trying ghee. Sometimes (but not always) people who can't even have butter are ok on ghee which is pure fat, with no milk solids left. Start with just the tiniest bit and build up if no reaction.
I'd be inclined to wait two days between foods. I've known some people who haven't reacted for 48 hours, and then it gets very confusing to know what did what.
You grouped canola with tomato and a bunch of other nightshades. It's not a nightshade, is it?
I forget now... I might be thinking of something else. The thing is a hybrid with Peony, which is a nightshade flower, maybe not rapeseed... Or something... It's slipped my mind completely.
I'm starting to get really irritated about all this shit. I can see why people will just go to the doctors and get steroids for this shit. I'm starting to wonder whether this rash on my skin is actually something to do with excessive sunlight, since it also happens to have flared up worst where there is a lot of light coming in. And even, maybe this rash IS from eggs!
I'm starting to become paranoid about everything that passes my lips now. I don't like this at all, not one bit.
The thing about dairy though, now, I can say one thing. Even 3 days after not eating any, I still get a smell and a taste here and there from inside my mouth and from my skin that makes me think there is still milky stuff coming out of me. It could still be the cause of the rash. I know it definitely was causing the bronchoconstriction, it has done this before, for certain.
Which leads me right back to what is probably the root of it: leaky gut. I keep forgetting there is one really simple way to deal with that: Glutamine. And other stuff... I remember reading a really good paper that showed that this was associated with a lot of autoimmune problems, notably the paper I read this in was talking about autism. It is not a coincidence that autistic people often also have allergy issues. One of my mother's neighbours son was autistic, and had a genetic defect, apparently, in his gamma globulin, and required routine infusions, and his mother was on all kinds of nasty steroids and had rashes like I have, all the time. She also was always drinking coffee, which I'm sure didn't help.
Anyway, so I need to look at this leaky gut stuff. I found this, which might be a good start: https://experiencelife.com/article/how-to-heal-a-leaky-gut/
hi , i feel sorry for you. i thought i was not so allergic since blood was also sentt to lab. It was negative. Rule out gluten in your diet..
Yup, I'm ruling out all seeds, all milks now...
The allergy tests don't necessarily tell you anything. The antibodies in your blood, I don't believe that the doctors have fully characterised them and the mechanism of allergy, at all.
The gluten and casein (milk) allergies, I believe, are caused by irritation of the intestinal membranes, causing the villi to be worn down, and eventually, opening up holes big enough in the membrane that quite large molecules like partially decomposed peptides from these proteins, as well as other large molecules (such as tannins, glycosides, and others) that then can get into the blood.
I recommend you try what I did when I first got it severely. Identify one staple food that you can eat ok, probably you will find stuff like spinach, eggs, white fish, lettuce, are ok, and then each day, try one new addition. The allergic reactions have different onset speeds. Some allergies happen within 20 minutes, some take up to an hour or two, and others can be from 8 to 12 hours.
The delay tells you which organ is involved - short onset means its happening in your stomach or right at the top of your intestines, and 8-12 hour onset means it's in the large intestines.
I found that the melons had very short onset of allergy, but most of the rest you didn't get symptoms until the other half of the day, which makes it easy to forget what you might have eaten that caused it.
Good luck with it. These food allergies are hellish. You can never walk around a supermarket the same once you become certain that your health (and including psychiatric) misery is caused by stuff that almost everything in the supermarket has in it. When I was detoxing from alcohol, all those carbohydrates, were literally deadly poison. Even a gram of sugar triggered strongly unpleasant symptoms that persisted for about 3 hours afterwards, warning of what would happen if I'd dropped 20g or more (hyperthermic stroke and seizures, most likely).
damn one year in a prison, in Bulgaria..?!
Goodluck with your health.
Bulgarian prison is not as bad as you might think. For foreigners, anyway. Most of the cellmates were border jumpers. It sucked in remand being stuck with 16-18 year old algerians hopped up on caffeine every day, smoking cigarettes rolled with newspaper, from dumpers scrapped out of the exercise area (which was the size of a cell, with an open barred over roof).
The diet eventually broke me though. I went through detox while with 4 broken ribs, I don't really remember the symptoms like this time around. That's why I was so blase about the risk of death. Then I started to notice the symptoms and I went into super Science mode to isolate the cause of the symptoms - sugar, as it turned out. Yeah, then when I was finally sentenced, practically within 1 week I started getting asthma and then it went chronic for the rest of the 4 months. This same stuff recurred after 3 years mostly living on the street. Which is also why I am now quite sure that sleeping on cold hard ground was part of a proper therapy for it. Really, because the diet was worse than the prison diet. Sugar wheat, sugar, and more wheat. No antihistamine. Why no asthma then? Even in winter??!!!