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HELLO!
I'm new to the group and I know I have some sort of milk intolerance, I
believe it also includes the protein in milk. I was given whole milk at 3
months of age and had terrible excema. I am 48 yrs. old so that was a long
time ago. I continued to have milk my whole life until a few years ago when I
found out how bad it was for me. For many years my only symptoms were dark
circles under my eyes (very dark, I'm good with makeup) and a very
embarrassing situation with bad breath that no doctor or dentist could fix
that I work extremely hard at keeping under some control. Then milk starting
giving me bloating and gas, so I pretty much cut it out of my diet except
lactaid milk in my coffee. But now I think even lactaid gives me problems
since I cannot handle lactaid cottage cheese and can feel slight bloating
after coffee with 100% lactaid. A couple of years ago I became vegetarian but
not for long. Severe bloating and diarrhea after eating whole grains (always
ate supermarket white bread) so I guess I gave myself IBS. Eating the celiac
diet didn't help either, to this day cannot handle any grains except
occassionly 1 piece of rice bread. I do have a very healthy diet now that
consists of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and occassional rice bread, although
the best starch for me is a white or sweet potato. Anyone else with similiar
history?
My problem now is my kids (5). I have an eighteen year old boy who eats a lot
but is very skinny. Checked out the Iga etc. stuff for celiac but tests came
back negative. Have convinced him to go totally dairy free and that's what I
needed this list for. Have done nothing the past two days but read old posts.
Has helped tremendously. Also have a 10 yr. old boy who still wets the bed,
and cries easily - found out that could be dairy related. Cannot convince
kids to go wheat free at the same time, but with the help of this list we will
go 100% dairy free. Anyone else with kids with those symptoms who improved on
a dairy free diet? Can the kids have some soda? Checked out Lindt
bittersweet chocolate but it had butter - how can that be legal so to speak?
I love Rice Dream bars, you guys sure that's okay? I promise I'll never write
this much again and bore you all but thanks for the group. Thank-you again,
Jane
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