Lo Carb Countdown Milk

[judy04]

Hi everyone,

I was recently diagnosed with Diabetes, Argh! As a result of this I am

trying to bring down my blood sugar to avoid going on meds. I was

doing pretty well with the numbers until I tried Lo Carb milk, I'm

not sure of the name but it has Countdown in it. I e-mailed the company

and they answered that their products do not contain gluten.I was pleased at first, it was creamy and tasted good on my blueberries. Last week I had to go out of state and I noticed that my eyes were bothering me just like they did when

I was on gluten, they were burning and itching, that is always my first clue

that I have been "zapped". I checked my food journal, which helps with the

blood sugar, and the milk is the only "new" product I have tried. I'm positive

that I had not eaten anything with gluten.

Do you think that it was contaminated or was it another possible reaction

to another ingredient, perhaps Splenda? I don't know why they would

need to add Splenda to milk, maybe thats why it tasted so good. Well

to make along story short, I no longer drink the milk as a matter of

fact I am going off dairy for a few weeks and introduce it back slowly...

[tarnalberry]

They add splenda because what they have done to make it low carb is to reduce the amount of sugar in the milk. After taking out the natural milk sugars, they add a non-nutritive sweetener (the Splenda) to make it sweet enough for drinking.

If you had been avoiding dairy for a few days before this happened, you may be responding to the milk itself. My elimination diet is looking like I don't handle milk well (the milk proteins, not lactose, as I used Lactaid milk specifically for the test) and my sympotoms were not unlike my gluten symptoms (though not identical either).

You're approach, cutting out all dairy, then adding it in again later, is a good one, but you might consider not "adding it back in slowly", but rather having a full glass after a few days of avoidance. Having just a small portion, if your reaction is not severe, may make it difficult to determine if you are indeed reacting to the milk.