Where did you learn about the corn, yeast, leaky gut connectons??  From the
Rodale allergy book?  What does it discuss?  Thanks, Kris

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Oh, think long and hard about ever doing that glucose test again! I about
died from it with my first one (I'm pregnant with #5 now). It was like sheer
exhaustion took me over and I was dizzy and my speech was slurred. I had to
lie down in the doctor's office for an hour and I don't know how I got home.
I couldn't get out of bed for four hours and I felt drunk. I knew I was
allergic to corn and had tried to convince the nurse to use table sugar
equivalent syrup (I wouldn't even do THAT now, knowing what I know now). But
she insisted dextrose was not corn sugar. I couldn't convince her. I had
read in Rodale's Allergy Self-help book that people who are allergic to corn
will get a false positive test for diabetes because the allergy will raise
their blood sugar. And did it ever! They made me come back for a second
test. By then, the nurse was more willing to work with me after she saw what
had happened. The second test uses twice as much sugar as the first, but my
blood sugar stayed normal. She said if that test had been the first test, I
wouldn't have had to do the second. Now I have a doctor willing to let me
come in and do a fasting blood sugar test instead. I come in first thing in
the morning before breakfast and they take my blood. I go have a breakfast
and come back in an hour and they test my blood again. I still don't like
the test (don't get between a pregnant woman and food!) but it is better
than the glucose test.

Since then I've learned about candida and how pregnancy can cause it to grow
much faster and how it can cause leaky gut syndrome which leads to
allergies. Many who are allergic to milk have become so in connection with
candida. On the yeast list there are those who have overcome milk allergy as
their leaky gut and candida has healed. Corn is a very big common allergy.
It may be that there is some hidden milk product in the glucose test, but
more likely you may be allergic to the corn, or have undiagnosed candida
that can't handle that kind of sugar load (or perhaps the candida LOVES the
sugar load). Think about it, do you want your baby to get that kind of a
sugar hit? Also, if you need to be hooked up to an IV when delivering, I was
told to tell them to use lactated ringers. I don't know what that means, and
lactated sure sounds like milk to me, but they said it was not and that it
would avoid the dairy/corn problem. Verify with someone.

If you'd like to talk more about the candida or corn allergy side and you
think it may go too far off topic, feel free to email me privately. Carrie