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From: smiley <[log in to unmask]>
To: Milk/Casein/Lactose-Free List <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: Started as lactose intolerance; Duncan Hinesno


> This is a response to an email from a month or more ago.  My  PC has been
> giving me fits.  Sorry to be so late.
>
> The email was from a person whose milk allergy started as lactose
> intolerance and they were asking if anyone had ever heard of that.  Yes,
> mine started that way too.  Someone casually mentioned to me (back in the
> late 1980's) that milk caused lots of phlegm in their throat and that
Dairy
> Ease took care of that.  That sounded exactly like my symptoms.  Dairy
Ease
> took care of the problem for maybe 5 years (and my headaches stopped as
> well!) and then they just stopped working.  And more and more headaches.
In
> reading the labels of EVERYTHING I ate it soon became apparent that some
> from of dairy was in each thing that caused the headaches.  Whey, dry skim
> milk, cream, etc.  When I finally eliminated everything that had any form
of
> dairy in it (except casien...don't understand that) my headaches stopped
> again.  Later MSG caused migraines but that's off topic.  My point is,
> though, that once I started being sensitive to one thing then other things
> became triggers of one sort or another.  And it is my belief that this
will
> only get worse, never better.
>
> 19MAR2004 is my first appointment with an allergist (had to browbeat my
> doc!) and am anxious to learn what my allergies are.  If any.  If not then
> back to square one trying to figure out why the headaches all the time.
>
> In response to a separate note, I wrote to Duncan Hines and asked them
about
> changing the ingredients of their cake mixes (someone wrote in to say that
> they were changed to include dairy) and Duncan Hines wrote back to me
saying
> they have NOT changed their ingredients and that the kosher symbol could
be
> found on the front of the box.  I had never noticed that before but will
> look for it in future.
>
> Kathy
> aka smiley
>
> In God We Trust
>