Allergy? Or maybe your body just isnt used to it?

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When you undergo an elimination diet, and then add back in foods, do you ever wonder if a reaction
doesnt necessarily mean that you are generally sensitive/allergic to the food, but that instead
maybe since youve been off the food for a few weeks or months your body is simply not used to it
being there, hence the reaction.

For instance, I am on an elimination diet. I have not eaten any dairy in 4 weeks. Yesterday I added
back in some cheese. Seemed fine. This morning I had a couple cups of plain yogurt for breakfast.

Within about 2 hours I had a tremendous sense of urgency to run to the bathroom and have really
loose, kind of explosive b.m. (eeewww, sorry).

I could interpret this a few ways. Maybe I am intolerant of dairy. Or maybe its just that I hadnt
had any in 4 weeks, so my body was like "what is this?" Think babies. They have to have things
introduced slowly or else they can have reactions, but that doesnt mean they are allergic. The other
interpretation is that since my diet has been so limited I've hardly been having any b.m.'s, and
maybe the acidophilus in the yogurt just got everything going.

I wonder if sometimes this kind of dynamic can cause people to think they are sensitive to a food
when actually they are not, and if they gave it time, their bodies would accept it.

If it is lactose intolrance you can eat/drink sheeps chesse/milk or the enzyme is avaeiable in
tablet form littleearthquakes <jupiterdog123@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> When you undergo an elimination diet, and then add back in foods, do you ever wonder if a reaction
> doesnt necessarily mean that you are generally sensitive/allergic to the food, but that instead
> maybe since youve been off the food for a few weeks or months your body is simply not used to it
> being there, hence the reaction.
>
> For instance, I am on an elimination diet. I have not eaten any dairy in 4 weeks. Yesterday I
> added back in some cheese. Seemed fine. This morning I had a couple cups of plain yogurt for
> breakfast.
>
> Within about 2 hours I had a tremendous sense of urgency to run to the bathroom and have really
> loose, kind of explosive b.m. (eeewww, sorry).
>
> I could interpret this a few ways. Maybe I am intolerant of dairy. Or maybe its just that I hadnt
> had any in 4 weeks, so my body was like "what is this?" Think babies. They have to have things
> introduced slowly or else they can have reactions, but that doesnt mean they are allergic. The
> other interpretation is that since my diet has been so limited I've hardly been having any b.m.'s,
> and maybe the acidophilus in the yogurt just got everything going.
>
> I wonder if sometimes this kind of dynamic can cause people to think they are sensitive to a food
> when actually they are not, and if they gave it time, their bodies would accept it.

If it is lactose intolrance you can eat/drink sheeps chesse/milk or the enzyme is avaeiable in
tablet form littleearthquakes <jupiterdog123@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> When you undergo an elimination diet, and then add back in foods, do you ever wonder if a reaction
> doesnt necessarily mean that you are generally sensitive/allergic to the food, but that instead
> maybe since youve been off the food for a few weeks or months your body is simply not used to it
> being there, hence the reaction.
>
> For instance, I am on an elimination diet. I have not eaten any dairy in 4 weeks. Yesterday I
> added back in some cheese. Seemed fine. This morning I had a couple cups of plain yogurt for
> breakfast.
>
> Within about 2 hours I had a tremendous sense of urgency to run to the bathroom and have really
> loose, kind of explosive b.m. (eeewww, sorry).
>
> I could interpret this a few ways. Maybe I am intolerant of dairy. Or maybe its just that I hadnt
> had any in 4 weeks, so my body was like "what is this?" Think babies. They have to have things
> introduced slowly or else they can have reactions, but that doesnt mean they are allergic. The
> other interpretation is that since my diet has been so limited I've hardly been having any b.m.'s,
> and maybe the acidophilus in the yogurt just got everything going.
>
> I wonder if sometimes this kind of dynamic can cause people to think they are sensitive to a food
> when actually they are not, and if they gave it time, their bodies would accept it.