Food Allergy Diagnosis "An Inexact Science"

[Henrietta23]

I have a friend who had to move many hours away because she caught her MIL several times trying to give candy with peanuts in it to her severely allergic and very young child. "Oh, its just a little bite, it won't hurt him!" she'd say. One day she came around the corner to find her 3 or 4 year old half way up the stairs, MIL at the bottom, throwing a ball up to the kid.


She lived around the corner from them and stopped in almost every evening. It was impossible to watch her every second, as they had another infant. They moved to keep the kid safe from her.

Yikes!

 

[curly_kate]

I'm doing a gluten-free experiment. I have had stomach issues for a while now, and last fall a doc dx me with IBS-D. Um, duh! I could have told him that before they scoped me. I eat lots of whole grains, not a lot of junk food. It's been since Monday, and my gi system is definitely feeling better. I haven't gone full-on, scoping out food labels, but I'm not eating bread, cereal, pasta, or anything obviously gluten-related. We'll see how it goes....

 

[Wifezilla]

I eat lots of whole grains

I bet that's your problem right there. Unless you are soaking and fermenting the grains and making bread, paste, etc... yourself from scratch, you are actually causing your body to be robbed of nutrients, creating an inflammatory state, and damaging your intestines.

 

[curly_kate]

What do you mean soaking & fermenting the grains? My husband eats that Ezekiel sprouted grain bread. Is that what you are talking about? We made that once, and we soaked the wheat berries for a while.