Posted on 01/10/2009 9:19:49 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Peanuts aren’t nuts.
People do have tree nut allergies: almonds, pistaschios, etc. They can range from annoying to life-threatening.
You’d think the LATimes would have more important things to wank about.
Still, even after you've achieved satori in real time (no wheat in diet ~ btw, I've been using the term "wheat" as shorthand for "gluten") you can still have an accidental exposure.
For example, you visit your grandmother. She offers you a chocolate candy. You look at the box and it doesn't say "chocolate liquor" ~ so you feel safe. Oh, oh, grandma forgot to tell you she's been buying some cheaper chocolates lately, and she just keeps filling up that 20 year old box.
You'll be blowing up before you get out of the house, so you stick around another hour or so, and there it is ~ you've been attacked!
For the curious, it's not like lactose intolerance ~ but just as bad.
Another source of poisoning is soy sauce ~ everything but LaChoy and Richfood is made with wheat. And then there are the corn tortillas (made with wheat), gravy, Swedish Fish (actually sweetened with wheat paste), and virtually every candybar on earth except SNICKERS!
Obviously a well-traveled and eperienced gluten intolerant person finds shopping a breeze ~ just stop by the store and pick up a few things ~
And you guys thought "Gee, that's crazy, why did those Chinese think they could get away with putting melamine in dogfood? Think ~ melamine is just another protein ~ like gluten ~ and without a "test" it's easy to put it in everything, and boy do they!
I would like Joel Stein to sit with my child after he has had a bite of peanut butter and tell him as his lips and tongue start to swell and he breaks out with huge hives all over his body, that he really doesn’t have a peanut allergy.
I think I am alergic to Joel Stein, I am starting to turn red. ;-)
Notice we aren't talking about Celiac in infants (which is probably behind "failure to thrive" syndrome) but that which develops later in life. That's the 2.3% of the population who have the genes but simply develop it later. Minor intestinal surgery will trigger it BTW. That includes colonoscopy!
Just about all the chicks you see having problems with anorexia are blonds with blue eyes and small builds ~ very typical of so many Norwegian Sa'ami. It's not that they are throwing up all the time, it's that they have figured out the way to avoid spending all your time on the pot is to NOT EAT. So they train them to eat. I hope they train them to not eat sandwiches too.
Real quick, when on travel try Bob Evans “fried cornmeal mush” with an egg or sausage, and a fruit dish. Ends up costing about what a breakfast with two kinds of wheat and wheat by-products would cost. Tell them to “slice it thick” because you can’t eat wheat, and most places will give you enough to gag on.
there are days when I do sit on the pot a dozen times. It happens more frequiently than I care to admit. It’s been that way for me for at least 30 years. It don’t happen every day. Lets say 2 or 3 days a week.
How do I know if it’s a wheat thing?
I, myself, avoided turkey for several years after a wild one hit my car going 70 MPH in West Virginia.
It was 100 degrees that day and I foolishly tried to wash off the car.
Talk to the bees. Bees are our friends. (Also, stay away from the hives Fur Shur.)
Of course there'll then be so many other things you can't eat...... noodles, ....
Used to make them with a food mixer ~ pour in a little milk, and they'd be creamy.
Found that as long as I put in the milk, there'd be this problem.
Solution ~ EAT MORE SOUR KRAUT, and learn to eat Kim Chi ~ and yogurt. Those products contain lactase and taste much better than the lactase pills. Plus, don't eat any cheese that's less than a year old.
Your modern domesticated pea has been bread to not produce those and other alkyloids over thousands of years.
Plano, Tejas... ooops, make that Texas... just north of Big "D."
Just do it for a month and see if that eliminates the trips, or at least reduces them.
There are other causes. Talk to your doctor.
What you see as a respite, or interval between attacks, is actually the aftermath of the attack ~ and is the most dangerous part.
See your doctor. There's a test for this stuff. You can pay for it out of your own pocket for about $150 if your insurance company doesn't believe this stuff exists.
You can get a test to see if you have the gene but you'll have to contact the Swedish public health service to find out what it's called.
So, good luck.
Your post just made me think of when I was a kid, lo these many years ago...
First of all, back then, most kids walked home for lunch, then walked back and played in the schoolyard until the bell rang unless the weather was very cold or rainy. Then moms would pack a lunch for us kids and we’d eat it at school.
And that’s what I’m going to talk about now: Not only was PBJ a stock favorite amongst the grammar school crowd, but on Fridays, tuna fish sandwiches were the order of the day (my neighborhood was decidedly Catholic).
If I close my eyes, I can still smell the smell of woolen mittens drying on top of the classroom radiator, the smell of rubber boots drying UNDER the radiator, and the smell of tuna salad sandwiches losing their refrigeration at an alarming rate. I’m sure the salmonella count was WAAAAAY higher than is recommended by the FDA, but I don’t recall anyone ever getting sick. I know I certainly never did.
Anyway, thanks for the chance to walk (or sniff) down memory lane.
Regards,
PS: Oh, those woolen mittens? They were almost always the kind that had a really long string sewn to them that you wore around your neck and threaded down the sleeves of your coat. Today they’d put those mothers in jail if they did that.
May I ask what your ethic makeup is? I remember reading somewhere about how the further North you’re from (ancestrally-speaking), the less likely you are to be lactose intolerant.
So, as an example, if your ancestors came from the Orkney Islands in Scotland, you would be far less likely to have a milk (lactose) allergy, than if your ancestors were from Sicily. That is not to say, though, that your ancestral home is a firm determinant of the allergy, just an interesting statistic. I wish I could remember where I read this...(National Geographic? Science magazine?...something like that.)
Regards,
Property facing the Arctic Ocean is way up there, and all those rules change.
That's because so many of the populations there were genetic isolates for thousands of years ~ cut off from regular access to the South ~ which for them would be the North German Plain, the Steppes, the Taiga in Siberia, and so forth.
Whatever you know about locatose intolerance, just forget with those far Northern types ~ I suppose they could obtain reindeer milk, but it's 23 percent butterfat! Makes a big difference in what you do with the stuff.
Wow, reindeer milk is 23% butterfat? Imagine the baking you could do with that! (But I bet I’d have to re-write all my recipes to account for it.)
Anyway, thanks for the info. As I said, that little tidbit I mentioned was just that — a bleep on the “isn’t that interesting” radar.
Regards,
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