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Leslie wrote:Within two days of discontinuing the gum chewing, the canker sores disappeared.
Great detective work. You're really sensitive to sugar alcohols. Back when I was still reacting, I had mouth sores regularly, but they disappeared and never returned after I adopted the diet, so I was never sure what caused them. These days, significant amounts of sugar alcohols cause me to have D, so I avoid them, except for trace amounts in pharmaceuticals, but I've never noticed that they cause me to have any other symptoms.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I always thought I was odd to have such a reaction as canker sores to things, but I knew that others in my family did the same thing. I used to get canker sores when I ate too many crackers with palm oil (? at least I thought that was the problem) or for sure if there was coconut oil in them. I'm wondering now if it was the sugar alcohol. I used to get it when I would eat too many cookies with brown sugar as well...Hmmm. This has made me wonder about a lot of things now.
I swear the more I read here, the more questions I have. I can lose hours of time on this. I was reading an article in The NYTimes this AM about digestion and it started off with, "Who spends hours thinking about digestion?" Well, I happen to know quite a few people now, who do!!
Jane
Diagnosed with Lymphocytic Colitis 12/19/12
"When it gets dark enough,you can see the stars."
Charles A. Beard
I swear the more I read here, the more questions I have. I can lose hours of time on this. I was reading an article in The NYTimes this AM about digestion and it started off with, "Who spends hours thinking about digestion?" Well, I happen to know quite a few people now, who do!!
I agree 100%. I spend so much time reading here that I feel I can't afford the time it takes to post.
Charlotte
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison. Ann Wigmore
I'm glad you enjoyed the almond milk. I think it tastes much better than the purchased product, too. It is pretty simple to make using the paint strainers. I've never tried using two strainers; it sounds like it worked OK for you. The nice thing about the organza is that the pulp slips right off of it.
I'm considering trying to make almond milk yogurt. Apparently it has to drain overnight to get the thickness of regular yogurt. The biggest problem is trying to find a small amount of lactose-free starter to do a test batch of it.
Gloria
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
I used to make yogurt every week, but that was before I went dairy free. Maybe I will try your almond milk recipe and begin making yogurt again. I remember years ago making nut milk yogurt and it is very thin.
Jean,
I used to eat yogurt for lunch every day and I would occasionally make my own. I have a Salton yogurt maker. The problem is that the DF yogurt starters are very expensive, $40 and up. I'm not sure I'll be able to tolerate almond milk yogurt, so I'm reluctant to spend that much money.
I don't have problems using cold almond milk in my Corn Chex cereal, nor does it seem to bother me as an ingredient in muffins, waffles, pancakes or my mock mayonnaise. But when I made almond pudding, it bothered me, so I had to stop eating it. Recently, I've been making mock mashed potatoes. The only ingredients are salt, almond milk, fine corn grits and corn flour. I suspect the mock potatoes are bothering me, too. The common component is that the milk is heated. It's possible heating the milk changes the enzymes and subsequently bothers me. I'm wondering if the yogurt would bother me for the same reason, so I don't want to invest a lot of money in the starter. I could try using a Culturelle capsule, but one never knows how potent they are, even though they make big claims. I could check with my local health food store. Whole Foods didn't seem to have a DF starter when I looked last. Has anyone else found some there?
Deb,
Thanks for your suggestion. I have reacted to coconut. I tolerated it for a long time until I made some awful pancakes using coconut flour. I would love to eat it again. I'm not at the point where I can begin experimenting with foods, however.
Ldubois,
I was under the impression that Kefir is made using milk products. Am I wrong?
Gloria
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Gloria wrote:Jean,
I used to eat yogurt for lunch every day and I would occasionally make my own. I have a Salton yogurt maker. The problem is that the DF yogurt starters are very expensive, $40 and up. I'm not sure I'll be able to tolerate almond milk yogurt, so I'm reluctant to spend that much money.
Ldubois,
I was under the impression that Kefir is made using milk products. Am I wrong?
Gloria
That's what I thought too Gloria, it's a lot of money to spend on something that you may not be able to tolerate.
Kefir is made with milk so if you are avoiding dairy you should avoid kefir. There is something called water kefir, uses different kefir grains than kefir grains used in milk, but it is made with sugar water so it could be problematic since many of us don't tolerate sugar.
I just dug out the package and yes, it does use cow's milk.... :( I guess that's why I put it away....and the properties wouldn't be right to substitute any other kind of milk?
Interesting the tweaking that we have to do with our diets - even down to chemical changes possibly due to cooking. Whew! You were the first person who had that awful reaction to Pepto Bismol that I did, and it was so reassuring to me to know that I was not crazy. BTW, how are things going? Is the rash/itching better? What helped it?
Pat,
I haven't researched Boar's head meats for a while, but I think there are 3 that are safe - the low-sodium turkey, the prosciutto, and the "fancy" rare roast beef (forget what it is called.....something like deluxe).
Love,
Polly
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
ldubois7 wrote: You have to use milk kefir grains, but the grains themselves don’t contain milk (they are called that because that’s what they like to grow in). They arrive dormant, which is why you have to start them in cow’s milk. But, you can throw out the starter batches of milk kefir (that’s what I did). I also rinsed the grains with bottled water before putting them into coconut milk. After the first batch of coconut milk kefir, there should be no trace milk proteins at all.
You were the first person who had that awful reaction to Pepto Bismol that I did, and it was so reassuring to me to know that I was not crazy
I am wondering if I might be reacting to Pepto Bismol. I switched from Imodium to Pepto Bismal 8 days ago (8 a day) because of its therapeutic properties, along with eating nothing else but the turkey/carrot soup 4 times a day as Tex suggested, my D is worse than it was before this experiment. The EWD looks like black coffee grounds in the toilet bowl. Black because of the PB. Early this morning I took one Imodium and at 2:00 another one and no D today yet.
The only other time I used PB was summer of 2010 for severe EWD while traveling and continued to take it after we got home and it also did nothing then to stop the D then. I ended up going on Entocort several weeks later. That's why I wonder if I can't tolerate PB.
Charlotte
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison. Ann Wigmore
You may be right. Something in PB may not agree with your digestive system or your immune system.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Back when I was still reacting, I had mouth sores regularly, but they disappeared and never returned after I adopted the diet, so I was never sure what caused them. These days, significant amounts of sugar alcohols cause me to have D, so I avoid them, except for trace amounts in pharmaceuticals, but I've never noticed that they cause me to have any other symptoms.
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