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    More information about "Other Food Intolerances"
    Celiac.com 04/30/2021 - According to Dangerous Grains by Dr. Ron Hoggan and James Braly, M.D., intolerances to foods other than gluten are the most common reason that people continue to have health problems after they've gone on a gluten...
  3. Laura Wesson
    You chopped a useful link out of something I posted It was so unfair, I didn't want to post here for a long time. I wasn't expecting to hear from the same person who did that to me. So sorry, I can't reply.
  4. Laura Wesson
    I decided to eat most of those foods only once every 8 days. I've actually developed new delayed food allergies to some foods that I was eating once every 4 days. That happened with allergenic foods - seeds and nuts mostly.
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    What I'm doing is very experimental - but then, going on a longterm hypoallergenic elimination diet is also experimental, and I think it may be bad for my immune system. I do take an antihistamine, the loratadine. The 15 mg loratadine I take every day is more than the 10 mg "standard" dose. I've heard the 10 mg dose is actually a rather small dose, and...
  6. Laura Wesson
    I call the "other food intolerances" "delayed food allergies" instead. This is appropriate because this kind of food reaction is acquired, specific, and can be triggered by a very small amount of the food, on the order of a milligram or so. I start to feel kind of hazy about half an hour after eating the food, and the mental fog/sludge comes on fully...
  7. Laura Wesson
    Ketotifen is a good systemic mast cell stabilizer and antihistamine that in oral form apparently works well for food allergies. I have many, many food allergies, not the kind that show up on skin or blood tests. And too many foods are off limits for me now. So I'm looking at medications that might enable me to eat foods I couldn't eat otherwise. I know...
  8. Laura Wesson
    Candida makes prostaglandins that change the host's immune system: see Open Original Shared Link I've also read that fungi can cause reactions via the innate immune system. It seems our bodies don't want to allow a decay process to start, so we have built-in immunity that wards off fungi - but that built-in immunity can be very irritating and pro-inflammatory...
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    I had a food accident yesterday - out of stress I guess, I bought some pomegranate/blueberry juice that I thought was pure pomegranate juice. I'd taken 400 mg cromolyn 2.5 hours earlier. I'm not sure how much that dose had worn off. I took 400 mg more cromolyn right after the blueberry-juice accident. I don't know whether chasing an allergenic food with...
  10. Laura Wesson
    One advantage of cromolyn over ketotifen is that it's absorbed very little, so it doesn't make you drowsy. I've tried drowsy antihistamines and been miserable - I'm out of it a lot because of inhalant allergies anyway, and the drowsiness from the antihistamine on top of that is miserable. (ketotifen likely causes drowsiness because of the systemic antihistamine...
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    They get the pure powder, but usually they have to add a filler so the capsule will be filled. I ask for baking soda as the filler - it's inorganic, no protein in it so I've never had a problem with it. And I don't eat the capsules, only the contents. Similarly for ketotifen.
  12. Laura Wesson
    There doesn't seem to be a rule here against mentioning commercial contacts - So, ACC's ph no. is 866 222 7993. They do a lot of compounding, and they're good at getting stuff. Someone else said ketotifen works better if you can get that. ACC also has ketotifen. It's worth checking with more than one compounding pharmacy, because prices may vary a lot...
  13. Laura Wesson
    That's weird. Anyway, if one candida killer doesn't work for you, you can always try another. Nystatin is a good one. I'm reluctant to take diflucan because it's absorbed and it's hard on the liver.
  14. Laura Wesson
    Gary Huffnagle writes in The Probiotics Revolution about the kind of diet that is good for gut flora. He's a scientist who studies how gut microbes interact with the immune system. I trust his thoughts on it because he's science-based. There's a heck of a lot of speculation around about Candida, people self-diagnosing themselves with Candida, etc. It...
  15. Laura Wesson
    Does Ketotifen act as a systemic mast cell stabilizer, or only in the gut? I suffer terribly from inhalant allergies. I use Nasalcrom and it helps some, but I was wondering if there is a systemic mast cell stabilizer.
  16. Laura Wesson
    For me I figure I have too much candida if I drink pau d'arco, a candida killer, and I get sick (dieoff reaction). And if I drink pau d'arco and I don't get sick, I think I don't have much candida.
  17. Laura Wesson
    Open Original Shared Link veganhealth.org is a website by an RD, Jack Norris, who gives good reliable information. Someone told me they considered B12 to be an upper. I never noticed that, but maybe if I took a lot, I would.
  18. Laura Wesson
    Yes vitamin D is important. It may even help prevent breast cancer and autoimmune diseases, which (I've read) are more common at high latitudes. But do you know of any reason to take more B12 than is necessary to keep one's blood level in normal range? I take enough B12 to keep my blood level in normal range, but I haven't heard of a reason to take more...
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    But why would it help, other than preventing a deficiency? It sounds like you have malabsorption issues.
  20. Laura Wesson
    Why do you think a lot of B12 would help? People can overdose on vitamin D. Last I heard if you take more than 2000 IU per day, it's recommended you get regular blood level tests of vitamin D. An overdose can cause serious problems.
  21. Laura Wesson
    I've been lacto-fermenting fruits and veggies. I've had best luck with the Open Original Shared Link jars with an airlock. Without an airlock you get mold problems. I've had allergic reactions to mold growing on the ferments, because the spores get into the air. I use a salty brine, that discourages bad bacteria and fungi. I didn't use a starter, only...
  22. Laura Wesson
    I don't know if I have a leaky gut any more - I may have stopped developing new food reactions. What did happen is that I developed an extreme hypersensitivity to dogs (and probably cats too). I was living with my dog in my house for years, I became sick in 2007 and I'm not well yet. In January I put my dog in a boarding kennel and moved out of my house...
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    I probably had a candida problem. I was on long-term antibiotics, which can really mess up your gut flora, and I was eating a lot of sugar because it helped me have more energy when I was sick from allergies. I saw an allergist who thought I might have dysbiosis. He suggested antifungals, quitting the sugar, taking probiotics, etc. I started drinking...
  24. Laura Wesson
    I haven't, I was thinking of asking my allergist about other mast cell stabilizers. Also possibly quercetin. I read that one can take up to double the dose of cromolyn, the usual dose is 800 mg/day, so it can be upped to 1600 mg/day if needed. I haven't tried any of the foods I have reactions to, to see if the cromolyn enables me to eat them. So far...
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    Cromolyn is used for food allergies, it's not my personal theory. What I was saying is that cromolyn also helps for my food reactions - suggesting that they are triggered by mast cells, just like classical food allergies. I think the reason it isn't used more often is that the brand-name version, Gastrocrom, is VERY expensive, like $65 / day. I posted...
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