Food allergies?

     I sent an email to a newly found Celiac sufferer, she's semi "new" to this disease yet is somehow so much wiser than I!   I was telling her of my symptoms, the peripheral neuropathy that's been causin' me fits.  She says she had some of the same and found out she was allergic to all things in the dairy department.

     This got me to thinkin', although I don't partake in milk (I drink & cook with almond milk....more to that story in a few), but I am quite fond of cheese in certain things & have developed a yearnin' for frozen yogurt chocolate peanut butter smoothies.  I try to remember to take a lactaid prior to their ingestion, but would not lie & say I do every time.

     Upon browsing through the net to learn more about this, I stumbled on an enormous list of foods that can cause allergies.  Here's the link, in case you are having difficulties as well: http://foodallergens.ifr.ac.uk/search.lasso

     Imagine my surprise to find lettuce on the darned thing!  Salad is a staple for me. I have several every day.  Not an "ordinary" salad - mine are filled with leafy lettuces of every color, strawberries, raisins, carrots, bell peppers, maters, onions, freshly minced garlic, radishes, pecans - if I like it, it goes in it.  At times I add leftovers to them.  Salmon, chicken, pork chops - whatever's in the fridge.  Most of which are on this darned list.

     I'm not certain that I am lactose intolerant.  All I can tell you is that from as far back as memory serves, cow's milk I've drank has always given me a gut ache.  My daughter and the grands are lactose intolerant.  I believe my mamaw was, but she like me was never tested for it.  Soy milk did the same, accompanied by nausea.  The almond milk, or so I am hoping, doesn't cause either of these.  But, almonds are on the list.

     I have made a vow to forgo everything on this massive list for a couple of weeks.  See if my body quits misbehaving.

     Wouldn't that be a blessing?  Have tried for the past 5 years to get a doctor to run a food allergy test on me to no avail.  This peck'n hunt, trial & error thing will no doubt make me nuts, but do it I will!