Re: Need protein ideas.




"Chris J." <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Uhoh... At least for me, it's over fairly quickly unless I get a large
> dose of seafood. Usually, I get trouble from small doses like
> worcectershire sauce and it's over fast. It's a constant headache
> while traveling, and no matter haw careful I am I usually get an
> episode about once per vacation. But, at low doses like that it's
> minor and no big deal (for me, but not so nice for those around me).

Well, mine isn't over with quickly. It usually starts up as soon as I try
to go to bed and then I'm in the bathroom all night. Often it continues
into the next day. When I was living on Staten Island, I was eating an egg
every day for breakfast at times because I couldn't find suitable cottage
cheese. I didn't make the connection then, but I do now! Seems if I eat an
egg two days in a row, I get the reaction about a half an hour after eating
on the second day. I had to take my daughter to pre-K and I couldn't figure
out why I'd have to dash back into the house just as soon as I got one foot
out the door. I thought it was nerves because I hated making that drive.
On those days we'd get there just in the knick of time to get her inside
before they shut the doors. Then I'd have to race back home where I'd keep
dashing into the bathroom for the 2 1/2 hours she was in school. Most times
it was all I could do to keep it together long enough to be able to pick her
up and dash back home again. Now at least I know why I was having this
problem!
>
> >> Seriously, The above did happen to me recently, and it's not much fun.
> >> I've got a nasty allergy to seafood, and sometimes when I travel it's
> >> in my food as a minor ingredient, no matter how careful I am.
> >>
> >> So, I certainly agree with you on this one!
> >
> >Seafood allergies can be scary!
>
> Oh, they sure can! Mine is not quite so violent now as when I was
> younger. Then, anapahalactic shock, or massive fevers and seizures,
> were my usual reaction.

That would certainly be scary! A girl in my daughter's class has a peanut
allergy of that type. She was telling me about her trip to the hospital
where she stopped breathing.
>
> As for scary, it wasn't much fun being eight years old, waking up in a
> hospital feeling like death warmed over, and having a nurse cheerfully
> and enthusiastically put truth to that term by saying "Hey, did you
> know you were dead for a while?" Turns out I'd flatlined for a while,
> due to shock and seizures, and was, according to the nurse, by some
> definitions dead. That's no fun for a kid to find out like that, for
> sure.

Wow! The worst thing that happened to me as a kid was terrible stomach pain
and severe gas. My parents always insisted that we drink a glass of milk at
each meal. I couldn't understand why because she always told me how sick I
was as a baby and how I couldn't keep any form of milk down. In those days,
breast feeding wasn't all that common. She did try that with me, but I
didn't take to it right away. This is probably because I was underweight at
birth and was put in an incubator for two days. During this time I was
given a bottle.

The whole family remembers one trip we made where I spent the time doubled
over in the back seat writhing in pain. The gas was so severe that they had
to open all the car windows and we still couldn't stand it in there. My dad
had to stop at every rest stop for me. But my parents still didn't make the
connection to milk.

That connection didn't occur until I was a teen. By then, I was very vocal
and managed to get out of drinking milk at some meals. I was suffering from
an odd assortment of rashes and also acne. My mom mentioned the gas and
upset stomach to my Dr. and asked if he thought it might be a milk allergy.
I remember him poo-pooing that notion. He said there was no such thing as a
milk allergy, but I might have lactose intolerance. He told her to stop
giving me milk. In two weeks, my skin cleared, the stomach pains and the
gas stopped!

So all these years after, I've presumed that I merely was lactose
intolerant. I rarely ate ice cream because I don't like it. I was eating
cheese though. I never noticed the connection to the cheese because
apparently the reaction I have is a much delayed one.

I couldn't figure out why my stomach had gotten to the point where it was
all pushed out, hard and bloated. I looked pregnant! And then I began
having trouble getting myself to eat cheese. I was having cottage cheese
for breakfast each morning and I did want that. But when faced with a piece
of Cheddar or Swiss that I normally liked, I found myself having trouble
putting it in my mouth and once I did, I felt compelled to spit it out. But
I didn't know why.

Then after having that severe egg reaction, I brought assorted cheese to my
parent's house for Christmas. As I assembled the cheese platter, I tried
each kind of cheese. There was one kind that seemed to repulsive to me, I
couldn't wait to get it out of my mouth. It tasted vile to me, but the rest
of the family thought it was fine. I began to wonder if there was some
reason I was being repulsed by the cheese. Now I know!

It has been not quite a week since I stopped eating the allergens. I no
longer look pregnant. Used to be wherever I went, I led with my stomach.
It was embarrassing to have that big thing just jutting out there in front
of me. And it felt so hard and uncomfortable. Now I can't see it when I
look down. I see my breasts but I can't see anything under them until I get
down to my feet. The flesh feels smooth, but there are stretch marks there.
Hard to believe that a simple food could have such a drastic effect on me!
But in looking back, I recall my daughter going through the same thing after
we changed her diet. Suddenly she looked slim where she had a rounded belly
before.
>
> But, now, I can honestly say that my seafood allergy is not that big a
> deal; at worst, it can only kill me again. :-)

Yeah! Scary stuff!
>
> Heh, I just realized that it's a good thing Alan S. is still on
> vacation: he would probably have a field day with the above story,
> combined with my name being Chris, my initial being J, and my birthday
> being Dec 25th. :-)

Heh!

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