Anyone Reactive To Ginger?!?

[lucia]

I'm on a highly restrictive elimination diet. Been doing okay, except that most recently I've been experiencing cramping and diarrhea after eating tuna fish. My body's not used to so much fish, I think. I'm going to change over to mung beans.

Today I woke up and felt nauseous and generally yucky again.

The only thing I've added has been ginger tea (for the past 2 days). I cut up some ginger and boil it in a pot to make the tea. Could it be ginger? I thought ginger was supposed to be good for digestion, and recommended for elimination diets?

[burdee]

I'm on a highly restrictive elimination diet. Been doing okay, except that most recently I've been experiencing cramping and diarrhea after eating tuna fish. My body's not used to so much fish, I think. I'm going to change over to mung beans.

Today I woke up and felt nauseous and generally yucky again.

The only thing I've added has been ginger tea (for the past 2 days). I cut up some ginger and boil it in a pot to make the tea. Could it be ginger? I thought ginger was supposed to be good for digestion, and recommended for elimination diets?

I don't react to ginger. However, I have diagnosed allergies to vanilla and nutmeg. I also have strong intestinal reactions after eating those. So you certainly could have an allergy to ginger. I was diagnosed by the ELISA (blood test) spice panel. Rather than using a very restrictive elimination diet, which might even contain some of your undiagnosed allergies, you could just get an IgG or IgA antibody allergy test for commonly eaten foods (which the ELISA offers). Then you wouldn't have to guess what's causing your reaction symptoms.

SUE

[GlutenFreeManna]

I don't know about reactions to ginger, but is the tuna you are eating soy-free? There are only a couple ones that are. So that might be something to look into as well.

Ginger is supposed to stop D and sooth your stomach so it seems unlikely. But then again if someone had told me a year ago that a piece of bread could make me sick I would have laughed at them. So anything is possible.