Re: Food allergies, infections and the diet
06/29/09 04:30 PM
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A couple of intersting things i thought of after reading your post was, that I got Lyme disease about 1-1.5 years before my IBS problems started. The other being that when i was first diagnosed with IBS the doctor gave me heavy Antibiotics and they worked immedietly to relieve my horrendous attacks. For some reason the antibiotics no-longer work and i did a breath test for bacterial overgrowth but it came back negative? Do you think that Lyme disease could be the culprit? I mentioned it to my GI a while back but he brushed it off.
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I don't post here a lot, so my apologies if these thoughts have already been raised by others.
I wonder if some of the reasons the diet works for some people and not others is 1) the existence of other infections and 2) differences in food allergies.
The diet (and I am speaking of using it strictly, not cheating left and right) didn't work for me. I found out much later that I have H Pylori, and this has now been removed with antibiotics. You may want to get tested for this and any other infections (Lyme etc). Note that I did not have typical H Pylori symptoms, and my doctor thinks it can be a very insidious disease. So perhaps if one has such an infection, no diet will truly overcome it and the diet isn't really to blame.
Second, I found out via igE and ig4 blood testing that I am very allergic to eggs (both yolks and whites) and almonds. Removing these, in combination with getting rid of H Pylori, has greatly reduced my colon cramping. Perhaps people who remove their allergens via Heather's diet do better, whereas those who don't or are in fact adding more allergens (e.g. lots of people have delayed allergies to soy and wouldn't know it without a blood test) stay the same or do worse.
Don't get me wrong: just because you're not allergic to something doesn't mean it's always a good idea to eat it! I just thought this might be useful info. A few more thoughts for people who are interested:
- Some people seem to do better with fewer carbs (especially refined ones) than on Heather's diet and more healthy meats and vegetables (you can read some books about adrenal fatigue as to why this is the case).
- I also strongly recommend hormones testing (I did a 24 hour urine test and also hear potentially good things about the saliva test, though it's less good than the urine one - the blood test appears to not be as accurate). I have some hormone imbalances that again, no diet alone would have cured.
I am grateful for Heather's work in any case and it taught me a lot of interesting things. I hope that my advice here is of use to anyone!
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