Well, All I Can Say Is "duh!"

[mushroom]

Since I went gluten free I developed a severe itching rash for months which I eventually traced to soy. Of course I always knew I had a bit of a problem with soy but it became severe after eliminating gluten (because I was unwittingly eating so many soy containing foods (substituted by the food processors for the gluten)). So I religiously read labels for both soy and gluten, and still had this residual itch, less severe but enough to make me want to scratch, the reason for which I kept putting off tracking down because I really didn't want to have to give up any other food.

Today, I had the ahah! moment. Down here most of us make our own yogurt, not "from scratch" as in the SCD, but with a package mix of milk solids and yogurt cultures, shaken up in water, and the container immersed in another thermal container filled with boiling water--takes about 8 hours. For some unknown reason, because I had been using this product for so many years, I guess, I had never checked the label until today; "emulsifier--soy lecithin"!! Why I didn't think of this before I will never know, but what a relief to finally find it And after religiously avoiding chocolate with soy lecithin, here I had been eating the darned stuff EVERY morning. No wonder I still itched.

So all I can say is, and I have proven it, the solution to your problem could be right under your nose! Read ALL labels.

[Jestgar]

It's funny how many things we just assume are fine, because we've been using them for a long time.