Interesting, and does regular corn (frozen, fresh or on the cob) give you problems?grannyh wrote:I thought I couldn't eat popcorn until I changed oils. I was using corn oil and all purpose oils.. NowI use 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1/3 cup Krogers white popcorn. Make the stuff on the stove twice a day.. afternoon and evening snack:)
grannyh
My Elimination Diet Trial
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Mike,
Just want to say 2 things:
1. Congrats on your determination to see this elimination diet through. You are an inspiration. May we have a recap of what you have found out so far .......what is safe, still untested, and suspicious?
2. Congrats on authoring the LONGEST thread I have ever seen!
Love,
Polly
Just want to say 2 things:
1. Congrats on your determination to see this elimination diet through. You are an inspiration. May we have a recap of what you have found out so far .......what is safe, still untested, and suspicious?
2. Congrats on authoring the LONGEST thread I have ever seen!
Love,
Polly
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
Thanks Polly, I'm bound and determined to figure this out. For myself and for my family. I'm tired of not being able to do things with them because of my GI acting up.Polly wrote:Mike,
Just want to say 2 things:
1. Congrats on your determination to see this elimination diet through. You are an inspiration. May we have a recap of what you have found out so far .......what is safe, still untested, and suspicious?
2. Congrats on authoring the LONGEST thread I have ever seen!
Love,
Polly
Here's what I've tried and haven't noticed a problem with:
Powdered Bakers Chocolate (but blech! Gotta figure out a real chocolate)
Orange Juice (don't plan on adding much juice, but oranges when they are in season)
Pistashios (still want to try other nuts, almonds for sure, but also walnuts, pecans for variety)
Rice (this has never really been a problem so I didn't even really remove it, I might try removing it sometime down the road for a while just to see, but I eat it now without issue)
Had problems with:
Cheddar Cheese (oh man was this bad, I might try a plainer white cheese sometime down the road, but I really don't care about dairy)
Fresh frozen Corn (ok, this might have been something else, but I had a massive head ache 11 hours later and couldn't sleep that night, but I still seem to be able to eat popcorn and corn cereal so I'm not so sure)
So this leaves the following to try:
Soy (blech)
Egg
Yeast (I don't think I'll try it, but who knows)
Coconut
Other nuts
Yeah this is a pretty darn long thread, and it's gonna get longer for sure. :)
Hope someone can learn something from it, as I know I have.
Thanks,
Mike
Ok, egg is uncertain at this point. If I did have a reaction it wasn't much of one. Had a bit of a head ache about 4 ours later, stomach was churing a bit about 11 hours later, but no major GI issues at all. A normal BM the next day, though I did decide to pick up a bit of a cold. :(
Anyway egg is questionable at least in small quantities (1 egg). Might try 2 down the road to see what happens.
Anyway egg is questionable at least in small quantities (1 egg). Might try 2 down the road to see what happens.
My experience has been that I have to eat something at least two or three days in a row, to get good and sick. Otherwise, if it's a minor reaction, from just one instance, it's often not definitive enough to provide a valid test result, unless I am highly intolerant of the item.
I have to eat a couple of eggs per day, for maybe a week, before I get much of a reaction, but I'm only mildly intolerant of them. I tested negative for egg intolerance at Enterolab.
Wayne
I have to eat a couple of eggs per day, for maybe a week, before I get much of a reaction, but I'm only mildly intolerant of them. I tested negative for egg intolerance at Enterolab.
Wayne
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 tested negative for egg as well, well at least the one protein they check.tex wrote:My experience has been that I have to eat something at least two or three days in a row, to get good and sick. Otherwise, if it's a minor reaction, from just one instance, it's often not definitive enough to provide a valid test result, unless I am highly intolerant of the item.
I have to eat a couple of eggs per day, for maybe a week, before I get much of a reaction, but I'm only mildly intolerant of them. I tested negative for egg intolerance at Enterolab.
Wayne
Perhaps down the road I'll test again, but with egg at every meal or more of it.
I wonder if we need to get the elimination diet info updated. I have had other folks say that you're supposed to eat a lot of food and to eat it at every meal, but this isn't the info we have here that Jean posted.
Though I'm glad I didn't eat that cheese at every meal. :( That would have been a terrible couple of days. Blech!
A lot of people, including Jean, are extremely sensitive to most to these items. For them, a trace is more than enough. Guys like me, who have a higher tolerance level, could probably get by without many problems, if we just learned to properly rotate our diets. I'm too much a creature of habit to do that, though. If I can eat something, I eat it regularly. If I can't, I don't eat it at all.
Wayne
Wayne
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.