Re: new - multiple food sensitivities

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Have you checked into GAPS? My family is very allergic to everything and this

diet is turning things around for us!

jo

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> I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have rather bad

sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts since on

strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet and am

interested in the whole gut thing.

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> Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of

going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some

of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I

am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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> I am extremely sensitive, and any changes I make need to be gradual.

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> Miranda

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The GAPS protocol is very high in amines which I am sensitive to - did you

switch over gradually?

Miranda

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> > I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have rather

bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts

since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet

and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of

going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some

of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I

am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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I've also had great success with GAPS, although with the exception of kombucha I have not done fermented foods. My family did go off dairy, wheat and most grains for 2 years and the change has been tremendous. We are now reintroducing raw dairy and so far, all is well.On May 27, 2010, at 5:51 PM, maryjos wrote:

Have you checked into GAPS? My family is very allergic to everything and this diet is turning things around for us!

jo

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> I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have rather bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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> I am extremely sensitive, and any changes I make need to be gradual.

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> Miranda

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Which foods contain amines? The basic principles of GAPS- high fat diet (coconut oil, ghee, roasted meats), healing bone broths, fermented foods and juicing fruits and veggies seems like it could modified to accommodate most any sensitivity. On May 27, 2010, at 6:50 PM, miranda.flemming wrote:

The GAPS protocol is very high in amines which I am sensitive to - did you switch over gradually?

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slow cooked meats & broths, fermented foods, many fruits and veges

also salicylate sensitive (salicylates are natural asprins in most fruits and

vegetables, coconut)

I get repeatable effects from ingesting any of these foods eg amines give me

skin rash, tummy cramps, diarrhoea, insomnia. Salicylates give me depressed

mood, aching joints, bleeding issues.

My tolerance has improved considerably since being on a strict gluten/dairy/palm

free diet for 2 years. (celiac and allergies to milk protein and palm)

Miranda

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bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts

since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet

and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > > > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of

going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some

of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I am

looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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Can you eat avocado? You really need a lot of fat to heal a gut and avocado is a good source. I would try ghee, too. My family is dairy-free but is able to eat ghee which has the milk proteins removed.If you take digestive enzymes can you tolerate foods better?Pineapple and papaya are full of good enzymes. If you can tolerate those than that's a good thing.On May 27, 2010, at 8:01 PM, miranda.flemming wrote:

slow cooked meats & broths, fermented foods, many fruits and veges

also salicylate sensitive (salicylates are natural asprins in most fruits and vegetables, coconut)

I get repeatable effects from ingesting any of these foods eg amines give me skin rash, tummy cramps, diarrhoea, insomnia. Salicylates give me depressed mood, aching joints, bleeding issues.

My tolerance has improved considerably since being on a strict gluten/dairy/palm free diet for 2 years. (celiac and allergies to milk protein and palm)

Miranda

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That's great news !

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> > > I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have rather

bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts

since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet

and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of

going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some

of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I am

looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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Miranda, the thing is, the people who are doing gaps are sensitive to everything

too. The group I belong to is huge and very helpful, called gapshelp. Check it

out and ask questions. Dr put the diet together, it is more complete

than scd. Her website is gaps.me.com. It is pretty much the same principles as

the wapf website. Eating the foods God gave us, the good healthy meats, real

butter, veggies, plus the ferments which even my teenagers love.

I have a severely autistic 12 year old child who was not vaccinated. He is so

sensitive, he has seizures. We figured out years ago that almost every food

caused them so we kept taking them out of his diet and he was down to 3 foods.

At one point he was having one seizure every minute, showed on the eeg he was

hooked up to for a month. He was having 17-25 grand mals a day. As of today,

he is one week without a seizure. He is eating a huge variety of foods too. he

is coming out of his silent world slowly but surely.

One of my daughters has premature ovarian failure and after being on the diet

just since January, it looks like her menses are going to resume.

One of my other daughters has type 1 diabetes and while we did pretty good by

following a very low carb diet and taking handfuls of supplements 4 times a day,

her sugar is normal much of the time. Her drs are floored! I know she will get

off insulin.

We have all lost the weight we need too, for me it was 35 lbs.

Have a great day!

jo

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> > > > I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have rather

bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts

since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet

and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > > > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of

going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some

of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I am

looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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did you change over gradually? I don't see the sense in cutting out more and

more foods - my aim to to widen diet (definitely not down to only a few foods,

so in a reasonable place).

Miranda

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> > > > > I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have

rather bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small

amounts since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen

my diet and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > > > > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter

of going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up?

Some of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea.

I am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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I can tolerate small amounts of avocado. Am looking at trying ghee. Have

ordered some digestive enzymes.

Miranda

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rather bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small

amounts since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen

my diet and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > > > > > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a

matter of going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build

up? Some of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and

diarrhoea. I am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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jo, it's amazing what you are doing for your family with GAPS! What an amazing gift you're giving them. I know how much work it is and to do with 3 kids is remarkable.On May 28, 2010, at 5:08 AM, maryjos wrote:

Miranda, the thing is, the people who are doing gaps are sensitive to everything too. The group I belong to is huge and very helpful, called gapshelp. Check it out and ask questions. Dr put the diet together, it is more complete than scd. Her website is gaps.me.com. It is pretty much the same principles as the wapf website. Eating the foods God gave us, the good healthy meats, real butter, veggies, plus the ferments which even my teenagers love.

I have a severely autistic 12 year old child who was not vaccinated. He is so sensitive, he has seizures. We figured out years ago that almost every food caused them so we kept taking them out of his diet and he was down to 3 foods. At one point he was having one seizure every minute, showed on the eeg he was hooked up to for a month. He was having 17-25 grand mals a day. As of today, he is one week without a seizure. He is eating a huge variety of foods too. he is coming out of his silent world slowly but surely.

One of my daughters has premature ovarian failure and after being on the diet just since January, it looks like her menses are going to resume.

One of my other daughters has type 1 diabetes and while we did pretty good by following a very low carb diet and taking handfuls of supplements 4 times a day, her sugar is normal much of the time. Her drs are floored! I know she will get off insulin.

We have all lost the weight we need too, for me it was 35 lbs.

Have a great day!

jo

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> > > > I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have rather bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > > > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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It's really important to really do the GAPS diet and eliminate all the foods, especially all grains and dairy. I even had to remove eggs and coconut from my son's diet due to sensitivities. Only once all the foods that cause irritation are removed can your body start to heal.I am also a big believer in comprehensive stool analysis. I did it for my oldest son and my infant son and both had yeast and bad bacteria that had to be cleared out with the guidance of my Naturopath. My oldest son was missing 2 healthy strains of bacteria in his gut (Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria) both of which are essential for immune function. It's has taken 3 years but those are finally living in his gut at healthy levels. The changes in him are remarkable. I'm still working with my now 2 year old. He's had imbalances since infancy but through the diet and probiotics he is getting better too.On May 29, 2010, at 6:01 AM, miranda.flemming wrote:

did you change over gradually? I don't see the sense in cutting out more and more foods - my aim to to widen diet (definitely not down to only a few foods, so in a reasonable place).

Miranda

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The thing with the gaps is it heals your leaky gut so you can eat more foods.

Leaky gut is the reason people have allergies or sensitivities. Yeast over

growth is also a problem. Dr says 80% of us has it.

I have been searching for many years for good for myself and I have found it

now.

My son was eating 3 foods for about 2 years, anything else caused seizures.

This 3 foods included any oils and drinks. So he was only ingesting 3 things. I

felt desperate. He is now eating too many foods to count. The diet is so

healing.

You do have to start slow or you will get die off. For people who are eating

sad, they need to start with sugar, processed foods and just go slowly with

small changes.

jo

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> > > > > > I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have

rather bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small

amounts since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen

my diet and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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matter of going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build

up? Some of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and

diarrhoea. I am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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, I am actually doing the diet with 5 kids. That is nothing though, there

are some on my list who are doing the diet with 7 and even more children. The

work is so so worth it and it is such a blessing to finally understand why I

have 3 sick kids out of my 7 kids, none of whom were vaccinated either. It was

donna Gates and dr campbell on youtube that lead me here. Once I saw them I

knew what was going on!

jo

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> > > > > > I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have

rather bad sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small

amounts since on strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen

my diet and am interested in the whole gut thing.

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> > > > > > Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a

matter of going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build

up? Some of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and

diarrhoea. I am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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Hi Miranda,

Go slowly with the probiotics at first, if you're not used to them. I started a

new one when my doctor put me on the GAPS diet. I'd taken probiotics for years,

but was lacking Lactobacillus. I made the mistake of eating a full scoop of my

probiotic for the first two days (probably five or more times what I should have

started with). Well, the dieoff was FIERCE! It was so bad I had to spend a

couple of days in bed. I think it was dieoff from Klebsiella pneumoniae (I had

a huge overgrowth of it). My point is, go easy! You can become very sick if your

gut flora is out of balance, and you have a huge dieoff of pathogenic organisms.

I got better after a few days, but the first few days were HORRIBLE.

I hope you're feeling better, soon!

If it's any consolation, it took me a month before I could really tolerate any

ghee or avocado. I've had to do the GAPS diet in baby steps. And I get really

sick if I eat something I don't tolerate well (exhaustion, depression, anxiety).

I'm still in the process of finding out what those things are!

S. (I'm a newcomer here)

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> I can tolerate small amounts of avocado. Am looking at trying ghee. Have

ordered some digestive enzymes.

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> Miranda

[Guest guest]

Someone just wrote in about food sensitivites and removing

eggs and coconut form their son’s diet. How did you find out that your

son sensitive to these things?

[Guest guest]

It may have been me since I removed both of those things from 's diet. At first I suspected there was a sensitivity to a food because he would have a red, irritated bottom. He was also often sneezy and sniffly. His doctor tested him for acute allergy (IgE) and delayed food sensitivities (IgG). It was found he had an acute allergy to eggs and a food sensitivity to coconut. Actually, he had multiple food sensitivities and has been on a restricted diet for some time.On Jun 1, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Caroline Norden wrote:

Someone just wrote in about food sensitivites and removing

eggs and coconut form their son’s diet. How did you find out that your

son sensitive to these things?

[Guest guest]

Hi Miranda,

I'm just wondering, how did you find out you were amine sensitive?

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> I am celiac and allergic to dairy and palm(olein) oils. also have rather bad

sensitivities to amines and salicylates (but can tolerate small amounts since on

strict gluten free/dairy free/palm free diet. Am keen to widen my diet and am

interested in the whole gut thing.

>

> Has anyone else had amine sensitivity and overcome it? Is it a matter of

going very gradually eg only eating a few tsp broth per day and build up? Some

of my amine senstivity reactions include severe tummy cramps and diarrhoea. I

am looking at trying water kefir too (never tried it before).

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> I am extremely sensitive, and any changes I make need to be gradual.

>

> Miranda

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