Hi All,
The D, which really wasn't serious D, just a very soft stool, (not liquid), and the occasional light headaches, stopped yesterday, so tomorrow, on day five, I'll try diary again, to see how that goes.
Actually, I'm so sure that it's the corn, that I haven't even been completely avoiding all use of dairy products. I'm still using a small amount of butter and milk in mashed potatoes each day, but I did cut out all other sources. Since the symptoms stopped anyway, that's a good sign. Tomorrow, I'll have some cereal with milk for breakfast, and some ice cream for desert at noon, and see what transpires.
Tex
Day Four After Cutting Corn and Dairy Back Out of My Diet
Moderators: Rosie, Jean, CAMary, moremuscle, JFR, Dee, xet, Peggy, Matthew, Gabes-Apg, grannyh, Gloria, Mars, starfire, Polly, Joefnh
Day Four After Cutting Corn and Dairy Back Out of My Diet
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'll keep my fingers crossed that you don't have to eliminate both from your diet!
Question: If you find you are intolerant of corn, will it be a problem since you work with it, breath it, touch it? I know that corn has "dust" around the dried versions, will inhaling it cause any disturbance/symptoms of any kind?
Good Luck!
Love,
Mars
Question: If you find you are intolerant of corn, will it be a problem since you work with it, breath it, touch it? I know that corn has "dust" around the dried versions, will inhaling it cause any disturbance/symptoms of any kind?
Good Luck!
Love,
Mars
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
Hi Mars,
No, there shouldn't be any problems. I had been avoiding corn for roughly two years, before my surgery in November, and working with it never seemed to be a problem. The protein is in the germ, and the dust comes primarily from the starch, and from various tiny particles of leaves, stalks, etc, which are pretty much cellulose, I suppose. Anyway, I never had a problem as long as I didn't eat it. I'm not highly intolerant to it. It takes significant amounts of it to cause problems for me. If Dogtorj is correct, about food intolerances being due to the presence of viruses in certain cells, then it would make sense that the virus is only present in my gut, and not in my lungs, or skin.
Before my surgery, though, it would tend to ferment in my gut, which caused the worst problems. Since the surgery, to remove the stenosis, I only have minor symptoms when I eat it. My problem is, I can't eat just small helpings--I always tend to overdo it. Sigh.
Love,
Wayne
No, there shouldn't be any problems. I had been avoiding corn for roughly two years, before my surgery in November, and working with it never seemed to be a problem. The protein is in the germ, and the dust comes primarily from the starch, and from various tiny particles of leaves, stalks, etc, which are pretty much cellulose, I suppose. Anyway, I never had a problem as long as I didn't eat it. I'm not highly intolerant to it. It takes significant amounts of it to cause problems for me. If Dogtorj is correct, about food intolerances being due to the presence of viruses in certain cells, then it would make sense that the virus is only present in my gut, and not in my lungs, or skin.
Before my surgery, though, it would tend to ferment in my gut, which caused the worst problems. Since the surgery, to remove the stenosis, I only have minor symptoms when I eat it. My problem is, I can't eat just small helpings--I always tend to overdo it. Sigh.
Love,
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.