Food Intolerance

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **bear** » Sat Sep 19, 2015 7:55 pm

Albear wrote:All very true Lotus. I do eat too much dairy and bread, and this maybe the excuse I need to cut them out!

The Christmas thing was the first thing I thought of when I read my results! But was relieved I could still have Pigs in blankets!

...Whilst watching Die Hard.

Goose is a more traditional Christmas dinner anyway but it is a bit more expensive.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Ironhide** » Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:50 pm

I wouldn't care if I couldn't eat turkey, it's my least favourite meat.

Eggs, cheese and bread however would be terrible as they're a large part of my diet, in fact I'd still eat them unless it was a life threatening allergy.

I've got to have an allergy test soon to find out why my tongue keeps swelling up, It's infrequent though so doubt it's something I regularly eat.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **CitizenErased** » Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:40 pm

About two years ago I tried raw oysters for the first time, a dish that most people wouldn't dare touch let alone enjoy, I bloody loved them. Anyway, around that time I had a blood test done at the doctors and it showed that my iron level was really high. They ran a gene test to see if I might have carried Hemochromatosis, a condition really common with Irish descendants were the body doesn't know when to stop absorbing iron. Turns out, yep I do have it and among needing to cut down on iron I need to avoid.....oysters. :fp:

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Preezy** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:13 am

Not been diagnosed with a particular intolerance, but whenever I eat pasta or wheat products I get bloated as strawberry float and spend the rest of the day farting like a trooper, much to my wife's eternal annoyance (and my hilarity).

So I would imagine I have an intolerance to whatever it is in them.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Bunni** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 2:09 pm

I have the same issue with white bread. However it's not been an issue while in Europe which is good because I'm about 9 loaves down already.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Hypes** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 2:40 pm

I expect this is Jeremy Corbyn's fault

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Ironhide** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 2:42 pm

Bunni wrote:I have the same issue with white bread. However it's not been an issue while in Europe which is good because I'm about 9 loaves down already.

It's probably one of the preservatives found in pre packaged sliced bread that's causing the 'issue' if stuff like French baguettes and other freshly baked bread doesn't have the same effect.

I'm extremely picky with bread and can't stand Kingsmill or Hovis at all as they taste weird and have a horrible texture.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **satriales** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 4:50 pm

From the ages of 14 to 25 I had regular visits to a dermatologist for severe eczema and they kept telling me I was allergic to milk and wheat (among many other things). I did my best to avoid everything they said even though it made no noticeable difference. Sometimes it would get better when i avoided and worse when i didn't but I'm sure it was just coincidence despite what their blood tests said.

Eventually I saw a different doctor and they also weren't convinced I had a food allergy, then I saw a third doctor and they too agreed that food wasn't the problem. I ended up on immunosuppressants for two years and that completely cured me. I've been eating everything I shouldn't for the last four years and the eczema has not returned.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Green Gecko** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:27 pm

Interesting about the immune suppressant, I have eczema on my head.

Anyway, my blood test results never came back, but as soon as I cut gluten out of my diet (about 5 years ago now), I stopped feeling like I needed to pass out (and often literally passing out, even right at the table) immediately after eating gluten rich foods like pie or bread, and my life and generally other conditions got better. So if you are feeling extremely tired after eating only certain foods, chances are you have an intolerance to gluten or lactose. It also runs in the family.

It is not too difficult to substitute, but scanning ingredients and menus can be a huge pain. You get used to the routine though and change your shopping habits.

Coeliac is a serious condition because it causes your immune system to attack the intestine leading to extreme lethargy, malnutrition, weight loss, anaemia etc. Do not live with that.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **jawafour** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:04 pm

I can appreciate the hassles that you guys face with food intolerances. It's not until you are affected that you realise what impacts it can cause. One of my nephews cannot have dairy products (milk, cheese, eggs, yoghurt) or nuts as they pose life-threatening risk (anaphylactic shock) for him. It's amazing how many foods contain those items and you have to be in the habit of *always* checking ingredients before eating the food. Eating out is especially difficult as cafes and restaurants often don't have ingredient lists available. And, of course, recipes change so you have to check each and every time.

On the positive side, supermarkets often stock a better range of suitable food products then they did in the past. Ingredients are often far more easy to determine, too - although many producers "cover themselves" by always indicating that the product "may" contain XXXXXX etc.

For my own part, I can't eat soya. If I do, I start sweating and having breathing difficulties. Ironically my nephew loves soya milk drinks and that's how I found out that I can't drink it :-).

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Albert** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 6:21 pm

I started my new diet on Saturday, and so far the results have been interesting.

I have stopped snoring, and I can breathe far easier through my nose. I think I had got used to a certain level of congestion.

I also have far more energy after eating. No more falling asleep at my desk.

I haven't lost any weight, but I am pretty constipated so maybe it will take time for my body to re-adjust to it's new diet.

So far food choice hasn't been too bad.

Sunday - Chicken Roast, Swede, potatoes, brocolli, gravy, stuffing
Monday - Asparagus and Feta, Chicken, mash potato
Tuesday - Chicken tortilla wrap with houmous, jacket and beans.

I'm sure I will be sick of potatos and chicken by the end of the week so will be bringing some variety into play shortly.

Ingredient checking is odd, as I never wanted to be that guy

But it has opened my eyes a bit to what ingredients go into our food. I was looking at Chicken thighs in Tesco yesterday. BBQ and plain. The plain had about 5 ingredients, the BBQ about 30! :dread:

I've decided that I will be good when at work and at home as I can control what I am eating. But If I go out for dinner I'm just going to eat what I want and suffer the consequences. You have got to enjoy yourself after all and I just can't face asking the Chef what ingredients they use for the sauce etc...

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Albert** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 6:22 pm

P.S. I miss Cheese like the Deserts miss the rain.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Green Gecko** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:15 pm

As you change your diet you will actually become more I intolerant to those foods because you will have built up a tolerance. So eventually you will sorely regret that decision! Believe me. There's nothing like a shot in the foot that is shocking your body with something that is toxic to it.

I did this in Japan where there is no gluten free food. I went on a raging bender, had constipation and painful gooseberry fools for a whole day, woke up late every day wasting priceless time on an amazing once in a lifetime trip, smashed an energy drink on the street at a real life doge by accident and made a shop man angry, and generally turned into a banana split. But I went back to eating solely sushi from corner shops, soya bars, bananas (that cost £1 each in yen) and at one point my only choice at dinner was rice soup.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Lime** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:45 am

My partner was diagnosed coeliac earlier this year. We've pretty much gone gluten-free in the house, although I do have some things that she can't eat stashed away (jaffa cakes, proper bread)
The bread she gets on prescription is like cake. I'm so glad I don't have the condition. Apparently her gut was in a pretty bad way, and could take a couple of years to come good. I wondered how she used to be able to eat so much (and still be hungry) and not put on weight. The dietitian advised us that just a 50p piece sized piece of bread can put a coeliac sufferer's recovery back 2 months.

Having said that, with gluten free flour that you just use in place of wheat flour, you can pretty much cook as normal. Juvella (or something like that) is the best brand for substitutes like pasta, pizza bases etc - you pretty much can't tell the difference.

Anyone else with coeliac disease here? GG have you been tested for it? If your results never came back you should get it done again.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **jiggles** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:20 am

I'm allergic to poultry and it's shite due to the prevalence of chicken in pre-packed food.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **degoose** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:11 am

Preezy wrote:Not been diagnosed with a particular intolerance, but whenever I eat pasta or wheat products I get bloated as strawberry float and spend the rest of the day farting like a trooper, much to my wife's eternal annoyance (and my hilarity).

So I would imagine I have an intolerance to whatever it is in them.

My wife has the same issue. Try whole wheat pasta ,it tastes good and helped her not feeling so bloated ,same with whole wheat bread.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Green Gecko** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 5:30 pm

Lime wrote:My partner was diagnosed coeliac earlier this year. We've pretty much gone gluten-free in the house, although I do have some things that she can't eat stashed away (jaffa cakes, proper bread)
The bread she gets on prescription is like cake. I'm so glad I don't have the condition. Apparently her gut was in a pretty bad way, and could take a couple of years to come good. I wondered how she used to be able to eat so much (and still be hungry) and not put on weight. The dietitian advised us that just a 50p piece sized piece of bread can put a coeliac sufferer's recovery back 2 months.

Having said that, with gluten free flour that you just use in place of wheat flour, you can pretty much cook as normal. Juvella (or something like that) is the best brand for substitutes like pasta, pizza bases etc - you pretty much can't tell the difference.

Anyone else with coeliac disease here? GG have you been tested for it? If your results never came back you should get it done again.

I've not been tested but I have such obvious symptoms to eating it I haven't made it a priority. The strawberry floaters stole my blood and did nothing with it.

Dove farm do good flour mixes and different flours and own brand pasta stuff is perfectly fine, all the major supermarkets do it now and it's not that expensive if you think of it price per meal.

I also find I can tolerate Nairns oatcakes, but only Nairns and only one serving packet. Which is essential as I grew up eating them, my mother is Scottish. Cheaper and better than bread anyway.

The weird cake bread is grim, I think DHS make if, I don't have a prescription but I should. Again the own brand buns (although expensive) at Tescos and Waitrose are very good.

While I still have some sleeping issues due to other health problems, for years and years I have not experienced painful gut, bloating, lethargy, passing out, irritability etc after eating, and I have gained about a stone and a bit and kept it. I'm no way near as thin I was. I remember one day when I decided to eat a salad for lunch, I had an amazing day playing with my band and telling everyone how much happier I felt. It was almost a total transformation and since then my life has only improved in so many ways. And yet when I go to a restaurant and accidentally eat something like soup with bulgar wheat in it (not on the menu), I feel sort of drunk and sleepy and generally unwell. It's weird eventually you can identify the sickness, whereas previously you were conditioned by it and didn't know what feeling "well" was like. It's sad really, I remember when I was a kid at Christmas, I got an awesome present I wanted but I remember not understanding why I didn't feel more happy (possibly childhood depression too), but I had really bad gut ache and bloat and my dad didn't listen to me about it.

Also to get a diagnosis now, I have to do an acid test as an endoscopy is the only way. That means eating wheat deliberately for a few weeks. I'm not sure I can do that.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Ironhide** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:01 pm

Lime wrote:My partner was diagnosed coeliac earlier this year. We've pretty much gone gluten-free in the house, although I do have some things that she can't eat stashed away (jaffa cakes, proper bread)
The bread she gets on prescription is like cake. I'm so glad I don't have the condition. Apparently her gut was in a pretty bad way, and could take a couple of years to come good. I wondered how she used to be able to eat so much (and still be hungry) and not put on weight. The dietitian advised us that just a 50p piece sized piece of bread can put a coeliac sufferer's recovery back 2 months.

Having said that, with gluten free flour that you just use in place of wheat flour, you can pretty much cook as normal. Juvella (or something like that) is the best brand for substitutes like pasta, pizza bases etc - you pretty much can't tell the difference.

Anyone else with coeliac disease here? GG have you been tested for it? If your results never came back you should get it done again.

My sister thought she was Coeliac but she's just cut down on gluten rather than avoiding it entirely and seems to be fine now.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Green Gecko** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:02 pm

In which case she could be gluten intolerant, but not coeliac. Intolerance doesn't generally cause weight loss and malnutrition, that is because it destroys the gut.

And yeah the fussy eaters and diet fashionistas give coeliacs a bad name, which sucks.

PostRe: Food Intolerance by **Preezy** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:40 pm

degoose wrote:
Preezy wrote:Not been diagnosed with a particular intolerance, but whenever I eat pasta or wheat products I get bloated as strawberry float and spend the rest of the day farting like a trooper, much to my wife's eternal annoyance (and my hilarity).

So I would imagine I have an intolerance to whatever it is in them.

My wife has the same issue. Try whole wheat pasta ,it tastes good and helped her not feeling so bloated ,same with whole wheat bread.

Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go.

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