28 Days Later...

[mythicsagefire]

Well, I am feeling better about how far I have come but realize that I still have far to go. I created a list of things I can and cannot eat while preparing for a dinner invitation to a friend's house. This allowed me to do 2 things, well 3 really:

• I actually saw a progress of things I could now eat
• I could better prioritize the order of the things I

Comments

[rowanheart]

Wow! I have alot of respect for you going thru all of this allergy testing. It's hard and it takes a lot to go thru all of that.

As for the milk allergy stuff, my guess is it depends on if you you are allergic to the lactose (milk sugar) or the milk fat. Erik is allergic to the milk fat, so he can't have high milk fat stuff, like ice cream, lots of butter, etc. But,he can drink milk, uses cheese, etc. He's got other allergies to fermented milk products, but I think it might be the enzymes used to make them. So he's allergic to yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, etc. But he does eat reguar cheese. Milk is a strange one. Have you tried any alternatives to cow's milk, like goat's milk since soy is out of the question.

Good luck!

[mythicsagefire]

Thanks! I am just trying to make myself healthy for once. And I have already noticed some improvements.

with milk you have to start out slowly and build yourself up to the actual milk. I have goat yogurt to try this week and then some goat cheese later. Then its on to regular yogurt and then hard cheese, semi-soft and soft cheese in that order. Then I can do milk. Slow process but it will help identify my tolerences. I was born being allergic to milk and 'grew out of it' so it would surprise me at all if that has returned.

[teal_cuttlefish]

Doug is allergic to soy and cannot have sugar. It's why we cook so much from scratch.

There is rice pasta, which will help a little bit...look for celiac recipes, as those tend to be wheat and dairy free. It's good you can have butter, because most margarine is either all or part soy. Do you think you could have stuff with evaporated milk in it? That's been cooked and canned, and is basically just double-strength milk. It's different than the sweetened condensed milk -- I know I've been able to use it with other friends with milk allergies. I know you're still mid-test, but that's something to try later, possibly.

[mythicsagefire]

hmmm, evaporated milk might be a possibility. I wonder where in my testing I would put that....

I've done the rice pasta route but it is just disgusting to me. I'd rather just do regular rice. When I can add more corn, there is a gluten-free pasta that is a combo of bean, corn and rice flour that I want to try.

[teal_cuttlefish]

Yeah, that's the drawback to substitutes, is sometimes they're wholly nasty. We haven't found anything to sub for soy sauce for Doug, for example.

[mythicsagefire]

You said Doug cannot have sugar. Is it any sugar or just refined sugar? Can he do substitutes? Why can't he have it? Can he have complex carbs such as potatoes and fruit or is that type of sugar bad as well?

I am trying to figure out how large or small sugar plays a role in my life.

[flwyd]

If you're not allergic to butter (100% fat) but you are allergic to whole milk (2% fat), leaner milk (1% fat) probably won't make an appreciable difference.

I find that goat cheese has a much smaller effect than cow's milk.

[mythicsagefire]

whole milk actually has a lot more fat than 2%. But I did notice a difference in my diet when I jumped from whole to 2% many many years ago. I just didn't pay attention to it because I was just a pre-teen. I can still taste the difference and whole milk is very heavy and I can't stand how it coats my throat.

I am going to try goat yogurt and cheese first and then see how things are doing.

[teal_cuttlefish]

Doug's off cow dairy as well -- his TCM Healer believes humans shouldn't eat the milk designed for a calf. However, he can have goat milk. And I've heard of babies being raised on goat milk when their mother couldn't supply milk to them.