[metmom]

The medical community is next to useless for many issues like that.

I’ve been dealing with food allergies all my life and they are now to the point where all I can eat is oatmeal and chicken. ANYTHING else sets me off.

When I talk to doctors about this and tell them my symptoms, they just look at me like I have two heads or make inane comments like (and this is a quote) “You sure have weird symptoms”. And from that one all I got was some Nexium and told to here, try this and see if it helps.

I will add you to the list of people I am praying for with food issues.

[DoodleBob]

I could run several threads about how SOMETHING happened between my childhood and happily eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, to today where children have horrific peanut allergies, develop rashes from gluten and yeast, and how soy has accelerated the growth of female AND male mammary glands.

I get it, that we can feed the world. But what happened? What went wrong? And with all these restaurants offering Gluten-Free everything, and the explosion of organic farming and goods (which, in some way, has enabled some family farms to remain in business vs cashing out to ADM), people STILL scratch their head, point, sometimes laugh, and opine "it's all in your head."

I never thought that children of the 80s and Reagan, would wind up having more in common with back-to-nature folks (well...they probably dislike my views on abortion and firearms but that's for another day) than the "corporatists" of today.

May God grant all food allergy sufferers a break, and give them a reason for hope, Amen.