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I have this terrible problem with bladder infections, they're 
getting antibiotic-resistant.  dont tell me to take cranberries, I 
have a cranberry intolerance. 
I found one hidden food intolerance I didn't know I had, recently - to 
pepper (pepper and salt pepper).  I've been eating pepper all along - I 
found about 30 or 100 food intolerances I hadn't known I had in 2005 and 
I thought I'd gotten all of them, but I missed pepper.  It's a mild 
reaction.  I had tried kava, it's in the same genus as pepper, and I got 
sick from that.  So I did a pepper family elimination for a week, then I 
tried the pepper and I got sick. 
I had a frequent urination problem which got a lot better after I stopped 
using pepper.  The urologist thought pepper might be irritating and cause 
a frequent urination problem, even aside from the pepper intolerance, 
which I didn't know about then.  I don't know if this is true. 
But I've also read that bladder infections can be caused by irritation 
in the bladder from "allergies", bacteria make a home in the irritated
place.  I wonder if I'll stop getting bladder infections on a pepper-free
diet!  It would be wonderful. 
Frequent urination is also a food intolerance symptom, although you 
mostly won't find that mentioned as a possible cause in articles about 
it.  I just find it stunning and amazing to contemplate how many of 
people's vague stubborn health problems, may be from food intolerance. 
Joint pain - I think of all the "musculoskeletal support" things in 
natural catalogs and wonder how many of the buyers are gluten or food 
intolerant.  Fatigue.  Irritability.  Anxiety.  my God.  Food intolerances
are so tricky to figure out, it's such a long painful process, and it's so
easy for people to not realize they have them!
Anyway if you are gluten intolerant and you have urinary tract problems 
like this, they may be caused by food intolerances you don't know you have 
- many celiacs have reactions to other foods.  It's impossible to guess 
whether you're intolerant to a food.  Especially since people tend to 
love the foods they're intolerant to.  The best way to find your hidden 
food intolerances is to do an elimination diet and food challenges. See 
http://www.cyberspace.org/~pbbl/elimination.html

Laura

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