Hi folks,

I don't post often (like never) but I had an experience yesterday that I was
hoping maybe  some of you could help with.  I have been eating Paleo since
November pretty much without exception and doing and feeling well.  We
switched to mostly organic and free range foods (at least as much as we can
afford). Last night my husband and I were invited to a barbecue birthday
party for a friend and I figured that I should be able to find something to
eat there without too much trouble.  It was OK, I had a plain burger (no
bun...definitely not free range), some green salad, salmon salad with
commercial mayonnaise and since the friend is a hunter, there was also wild
pheasant which his wife cooked up in some kind of gooey, floury sauce.  I
ate those things, but I had a diet coke as well as there was nothing else to
drink that wasn't alcoholic and I had to drive.  About 3 hours later I broke
out in huge hives all over, intensely itchy and awful.  Had a bad night
trying to sleep.  Now I am trying to figure out what it was that I ate that
might have caused this as I have never had anything like that before and I
am pretty sure it was something I ingested.  I would definitely like to
avoid whatever it was.  I don't know what was in the pheasant sauce and I
haven't eaten any commercial mayonnaise since November so I don't know if it
was something in one of those two.  Definitely the diet coke was something I
haven't had in years.

Any ideas?  Anybody else have this experience?

Thanks

Sharon Knauer in Ontario, Canada