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Anyone on a Low Gluten and Dairy Diet?
TheSword
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From when I was about 18 I started getting regular heartburn and indigestion, sometimes crippling, the amount of Gaviscon and Rennie and the like I put down my throat was incredulous. By when I was nearing my 30th I was having really bad IBS, I felt tired by afternoon, I would be knackered going up the stairs, and generally felt rather poorly.
I went to the doctor and he said I should eat more brown bread, so I did, anyway this day, I had beans on toast for breakfast, had sandwiches for lunch and also a couple of sarnies mid-afternoon, boy did I feel ill, and the runs! So I thought, it must be something I'm eating, and realised I'd eaten a lot of bread that day, so I cut it out completely, within a couple of days I felt 10 times better, and for years stuck to a completely gluten free diet, then about 4 or 5 years ago, I started having tummy trouble again, and realised this time it was dairy, it had been a nice period of weather and had taken to eating ice cream, and also since my tummy was feeling dodgy had been topping up with that good Yoghurty stuff, bifidus whatever probiotic type thing, thinking it was helping, it certainly wasnt, it was part of the cause, so I cut out dairy, so at this time I had a very limited diet, no gluten and no dairy.
I have been tested, but the results didn't show anything, but I know if I eat too much dairy and wheat I will start feeling poorly, so I am now just following a low dairy and wheat diet, and if I overdo it, I take omeprazole.
Member of my family take omeprazole and the like on a daily basis, and eat whatever they like, I actually think that they tend to eat more dairy in the belief that it's good for them, when in fact it's quite possibly the cause of their problem.
Surely it's much better to eat a restricted diet than take pills to compensate for it on a daily basis.
After all taking milk products is unnatural, it's baby food, humans are the exception in eating another animals milk and as adults.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
I went to the doctor and he said I should eat more brown bread, so I did, anyway this day, I had beans on toast for breakfast, had sandwiches for lunch and also a couple of sarnies mid-afternoon, boy did I feel ill, and the runs! So I thought, it must be something I'm eating, and realised I'd eaten a lot of bread that day, so I cut it out completely, within a couple of days I felt 10 times better, and for years stuck to a completely gluten free diet, then about 4 or 5 years ago, I started having tummy trouble again, and realised this time it was dairy, it had been a nice period of weather and had taken to eating ice cream, and also since my tummy was feeling dodgy had been topping up with that good Yoghurty stuff, bifidus whatever probiotic type thing, thinking it was helping, it certainly wasnt, it was part of the cause, so I cut out dairy, so at this time I had a very limited diet, no gluten and no dairy.
I have been tested, but the results didn't show anything, but I know if I eat too much dairy and wheat I will start feeling poorly, so I am now just following a low dairy and wheat diet, and if I overdo it, I take omeprazole.
Member of my family take omeprazole and the like on a daily basis, and eat whatever they like, I actually think that they tend to eat more dairy in the belief that it's good for them, when in fact it's quite possibly the cause of their problem.
Surely it's much better to eat a restricted diet than take pills to compensate for it on a daily basis.
After all taking milk products is unnatural, it's baby food, humans are the exception in eating another animals milk and as adults.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
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Anyway, I would certainly suggest anyone who feels all is not right should start to keep a food diary. It's a good way of spotting where problems are coming from. Sometimes it's very easy to forget what we put in our mouths and how much of it. Like you, I can easily finish off half a small loaf in one day!
Yes, as I understand, we naturally stop or slow down production of Lactase which digests the Lactose in milk as we get older, as we are 'weaned' in nature. So if you only produce a small amount of lactase, you might be perfectly ok with maybe half a pint of milk a day, but more than that can give you problems.
I don't know if it is less common in Northern Europe, it doesn't seem like it by the rows and rows of anti-bloating, and indigestion and the like on shelves in shops, I think it's more of a case that we put up with it by using a plethora of these products, but we blame it on poor diet without realising that wheat and especially wheat and breads in this country with it's poor protein content and dairy which no adult should eat in the first place is the real poor diet.
I actually get annoyed when they advertise how good yoghurty products are for you, they give you instant releif, but give you really bad digestion in the long run.
David Mitchell rants about milk & bread - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTn3eJG87IQ
It is a bit of a nuisance having to source wheat- (and therefore normally gluten-) free foods, but there seem to be more of them available in the supermarkets on a daily basis. Hopefully this will help drive the cost of them down, as £2.99 for a loaf of very average sandwich bread that's half the size of a normal sandwich loaf makes a noticeable difference to your shopping bill.