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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 352254" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>FirstAngel, you're doing well with your English. Don't feel too concerned if you confused "allergy" with "sensitivity" - a lot of native English speakers do this too.</p><p></p><p>My sister J (the one who has been so desperately ill in recent weeks) was telling me when I visited her on Friday, that she has been suspecting she has a problem with cows milk, and so took herself off all cows milk products. She needs to build herself up (having lost so much muscle muss and weight) but all the body building drinks she's been brought, are cows milk-based so she won't touch them. But meanwhile, while avoiding cows milk, she was still eating yogurt every day for breakfast, plus taking these "transfer factor" pills (which, as far as I can determine, cannot guarantee they contain any transfer factor, contain NO human transfer factor and are taken orally so containing such factors is immaterial, they get digested, not assimilated) which are based on cows milk.</p><p></p><p>So she was trying to avoid cows milk because she suspected a problem; she remembered her son's milk sensitivity in childhood which was a digestion problem, so yogurt was OK for him; then each day she was taking a small dose of something that was really stirring up her immune system to over-react. Not good.</p><p></p><p>I mentioned the allergy tests (skinprick) I had done which showed an allergy to tomatoes, yet I could eat tomatoes without problem. That is where we can get confused - my reaction was to tomato plants, plus it was tomato season and I was picking my own home-grown tomatoes each day to eat. This meant that at that time, my system was sensitised to contact with tomato plants. They were testing skin, and it was skin that was reacting. But digestive tract can be different.</p><p></p><p>Firstangel, you really need an expert to help you get this right. A dietician specialising in food sensitivities is the best person if you can find one. Failing that - I'm not sure where in Italy you are, but the very first things to remove from his diet are the artificial additives. A dietician was on Aussie TV this morning saying that when you read the labels on processed foods, avoid the ones where you have trouble understanding what the ingredients are. Ingredients you can easily understand such as "oregano, garlic, onion, tomato" mean it's got FOOD in it, not chemicals. But if you can get fresh food and prepare it yourself, avoid adding anything that you didn't buy yourself from a fresh food market, then it could be a start. If you suspect cows milk, then keep that out of his diet as well (this includes eliminating yogurt, cheese, casein... you get the drift. Butter is OK, I believe but check it out). </p><p></p><p>But there are two ways you can do this. You either go on a full Elimination Diet (also cheekily known as a "food free diet" because you can't stay on it for too long, your child WILL lose weight, it's awful) or you can try eliminating one group at a time. And it's up to you what you eliminate first - additives, or milk. Or eggs. Or yeast. Or gluten. Then you move on to salicylates, amines, glutamates - those chemicals which occur naturally in good, healthy food but which some people have problems with. Salicylate sensitivity can seem bizarre to people who want to believe that eating a healthy, home-grown natural vegetarian diet will always be good for you - nope. Not if there is a salicylate problem. Basically, anything with flavour, tends to be loaded with salicylate. That's why on the Elimination Diet, white processed sugar (which is pure sucrose) is not a problem, but honey is a no-no.</p><p></p><p>I hope you can get some helpful information and practical medical support in your area.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 352254, member: 1991"] FirstAngel, you're doing well with your English. Don't feel too concerned if you confused "allergy" with "sensitivity" - a lot of native English speakers do this too. My sister J (the one who has been so desperately ill in recent weeks) was telling me when I visited her on Friday, that she has been suspecting she has a problem with cows milk, and so took herself off all cows milk products. She needs to build herself up (having lost so much muscle muss and weight) but all the body building drinks she's been brought, are cows milk-based so she won't touch them. But meanwhile, while avoiding cows milk, she was still eating yogurt every day for breakfast, plus taking these "transfer factor" pills (which, as far as I can determine, cannot guarantee they contain any transfer factor, contain NO human transfer factor and are taken orally so containing such factors is immaterial, they get digested, not assimilated) which are based on cows milk. So she was trying to avoid cows milk because she suspected a problem; she remembered her son's milk sensitivity in childhood which was a digestion problem, so yogurt was OK for him; then each day she was taking a small dose of something that was really stirring up her immune system to over-react. Not good. I mentioned the allergy tests (skinprick) I had done which showed an allergy to tomatoes, yet I could eat tomatoes without problem. That is where we can get confused - my reaction was to tomato plants, plus it was tomato season and I was picking my own home-grown tomatoes each day to eat. This meant that at that time, my system was sensitised to contact with tomato plants. They were testing skin, and it was skin that was reacting. But digestive tract can be different. Firstangel, you really need an expert to help you get this right. A dietician specialising in food sensitivities is the best person if you can find one. Failing that - I'm not sure where in Italy you are, but the very first things to remove from his diet are the artificial additives. A dietician was on Aussie TV this morning saying that when you read the labels on processed foods, avoid the ones where you have trouble understanding what the ingredients are. Ingredients you can easily understand such as "oregano, garlic, onion, tomato" mean it's got FOOD in it, not chemicals. But if you can get fresh food and prepare it yourself, avoid adding anything that you didn't buy yourself from a fresh food market, then it could be a start. If you suspect cows milk, then keep that out of his diet as well (this includes eliminating yogurt, cheese, casein... you get the drift. Butter is OK, I believe but check it out). But there are two ways you can do this. You either go on a full Elimination Diet (also cheekily known as a "food free diet" because you can't stay on it for too long, your child WILL lose weight, it's awful) or you can try eliminating one group at a time. And it's up to you what you eliminate first - additives, or milk. Or eggs. Or yeast. Or gluten. Then you move on to salicylates, amines, glutamates - those chemicals which occur naturally in good, healthy food but which some people have problems with. Salicylate sensitivity can seem bizarre to people who want to believe that eating a healthy, home-grown natural vegetarian diet will always be good for you - nope. Not if there is a salicylate problem. Basically, anything with flavour, tends to be loaded with salicylate. That's why on the Elimination Diet, white processed sugar (which is pure sucrose) is not a problem, but honey is a no-no. I hope you can get some helpful information and practical medical support in your area. Marg [/QUOTE]
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