Posted on 06/22/2008 7:12:41 AM PDT by RangerM
This is a total personal (vanity?) thread, but I have searched Google, and can't find the exact answer I'm looking for.
For many years I have learned to never eat dairy and shellfish within a certain timeframe, because it will make me very sick (nausea and all the other unpleasant things that go with it).
I ate shrimp for lunch yesterday, and after many hours (4-5 is my usual minimum) I ate ice cream. I still got ill, although not as severely as I would have, had I not heeded my usual rule. I now know I will have to wait longer.
Does anyone else suffer this and does anyone know why it is this particular combination (shellfish/dairy) that does it?
Thanks in advance.
Go to a physician and have yourself tested for allergies to shellfish and dairy products. It may save your life.
Second: my guess would be likely you are lactose intolerant and how the shrimp is prepared is important.
Some sauces have milk products and with addition of additional cream sets you over the edge.
So if there is time that passes you are dealing with only one serving of dairy product.
Thats my guess anyway.
Remember I am not a doctor nor do I play one on TV.
Bad clams will make you violently ill no matter if you ingest after... or before shellfish. I absolutely love an order of whole-bellied, fried clams(with tar-tar sauce), slaw’... and a vanilla shake on a hot, summer night!
because its trafe?
I appreciate what you suggest. I saw references to anaphylaxis about these foods, but neither (by themselves) will evoke a reaction in me, so I do my best to not eat them proximately.
It’s only the combination (or proximity) that will do it, but I can’t find out why.
Maybe it’s just part of being me, but I can’t imagine I’m the only one.
Do you ever get the “sick” feeling from either just ice cream or just shellfish? Or, is it the combination that does it every time?
Have you considered that it is not just the shellfish or the dairy but a combination of these two that you are allergic to?
They digest at different rates in the body, so it doesn’t matter if you’ve waited before ingesting the other.
Remember: 14 hours from mouth to rectum!!!
Also, have you ever eaten ice cream and THEN shellfish?
Like I said, I never eat them together, and avoid eating them within 4 or 5 hours of each other. Last night was an exception, so I will start extending that time allowance.
It doesn’t really matter how it’s prepared (fried, broiled boiled or grilled), but I know I never should eat shrimp, crawdads, lobster or crab (there are others), within several hours of consuming anything dairy, or vice versa.
Follow vetvetdoug’s advice...get tested for a shellfish allergy. It is the iodine most people are allergic too...and it can be ‘a tolerance’ type allergen (nausaa, then builds to nausea w/ vomiting, leading to an even more severe anaphalxis reaction—the swelling of the throat air passage ways). Nothing to mess with. I have to carry an EpiPen and wear a medic alert tag (iodine can be used in emergency medical procedures—so ER staffs need to know of potential life threatening reactions). Avoid shellfish until you learn if you are trully allergic as reaactions ‘increase’ in severity w/subsequent exposures.
Maybe in a goose!
It depends on what you are eating.
It amazes me that so many people will eat lunch and two hours later blame the flatulence on what they ate for lunch.
Any reacion would begin within 30 minutes to one hour of finishing the SECOND item. The severity depends on how close in time they are consumed. If I eat them together, I can’t take anything to dampen the symptoms. Last night I waited about 7 hours before consuming the ice cream, and a single dose of Pepto took care of it.
I’ve never noticed the order of consumption making a difference, but it might. I’m not going to find out.
There are people who eat Kosher who aren’t even Jews, just for the health benefits.
Maybe you are Jewish and don’t know it.
Any ideas?
It amazes me that so many people will eat lunch and two hours later blame the flatulence on what they ate for lunch.
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Gas by product of digesting the food would pass through quicker than the actual food I would think. At least that is how I remember reading it in school.
I thought about being Jewish, but I like bacon too much.
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