Food Sensitivities

Sorry you're experiencing this Warrior. It's something many of us go through with these infections. It seems to go in hand with some of us with light and sound and smell sensitivities. There are, I think, a number of reasons for it, but one of the biggies is leaky gut. Something you might want to research.

It involves the damage yeast has done to the stomach lining that causes undigested food to actually leak out. That creates a reaction in us the seems to propel the food in the leak to be recognized then as toxic and causes the body to react to it further when we consume more of it. That would explain the rash reaction for certain.

I believe I have gotten to that point, as well as diverted oxygenated blood from my extremeties to my digestive tract when I eat.

Others experience insulin spikes and crashes even though they may not test in a diabetic range, even with and A1c test.

Addressing leaky gut and making sure other avenues are not to blame, along with getting healed, will probably enable a person to gradually add these foods back in to their 'diet', as it were.


ETA: Each of what you put on your short list have their own issues, particularly alcohol and sugar/carbs and the yeast factor. Caffeine products are stimulants that can push our adrenal activity too far.

I personally am in the middle of the mess and am not doing well dealing with it. I've lost the ability to do everything physical that I love, except cook and eat, particularly when even that has diminished. It's the hardest thing to retrain this old dog.

Post Edited (julymorning) : 8/16/2017 4:40:33 PM (GMT-6)

Thanks julymorning and Kat1000. Appreciate your feedback!

I have had food sensitivities and food allergies develop as well due to these infections.

I'm very highly allergic to soy of any kind (soy oil, soy lecithin, soy protein and any other forms). Last time I got a hold of a bit of soy oil (went out to eat!), I had every symptom of a food allergy - brain fog, muscle spasms, joint swelling/pain, itchy skin with spotty hives, complete GI dysruption (I sat in the bathroom for a few hours, with it from both ends - TMI!!! Sorry!).

I'm very sensitive to MSG as well - and that little bugger goes by about 15 different names in foods, so it's hard to avoid as well. Fortunately, I get some GI upset, but not like I get with soy, and so far no other symptoms - but there's no doubt when I get a hold of some.

For me, I need grains in my diet - not much, but some - or I feel completely off. I have eliminated grains from my diet completely for as long as 6 months - but discovered that if I eat healthy, mostly alternative or organic grains at least 4 times a week, I feel pretty decent as far as that goes.

Our brains and our guts are both so very highly individual in their exact make up of chemicals/bacteria, that no two diets and other GI 'remedies' will be the exact same, and no two treatments for help with sleep/brain fog/other brain issues will be the same either. Makes it quite the challenge, but by talking to enough people and doing some trial and error can get a person to a point where things are manageable lots of times.

Oops, I forgot - dairy, sugar and caffeine!! I have been avoiding those for so long, I forgot until I saw your first post in this thread again! LOL!

Dairy and sugar were my first food 'allergies' - it's really due to the dysfunction in my gut caused by these infections - but I still can't tolerate them. I can easily use goat's milk products though.

Caffeine is not really an allergy for me, but due to having developed Addison's, I must avoid caffeine. It now puts me to sleep about an hour after feeling really buzzed. LOL. But it harms my adrenals every time, so I have to avoid it now at all costs until my adrenals are healed. Boy, do I wish I could find a way to speed that up though!!!

During active lyme, my food sensibilities went skyrocketting. I went to remission a couple of times, and could eat more foods again, then relapsed or got bitten again, and I swear that in very few weeks, I was again allergic or sensitive to so many things (specially my beloved fruits).

Before lyme, I had little trouble with allergies. It started with lyme, and when lyme was totally gone 7 years ago, most allergies disappeared (but not all).

Gut lining problems, leaky gut are probably one big problem.

I had chronic candida, still have from times to times, it reactivates fully in winter. So that also is a big problem.

Dr. K's practitioners will test the patient for food sensitivity in the first visit (s), because if you eat one food that causes you allergy, it goes like a cascade effect. Only stopping ALL foods causing problem will make the situation better.

If you eat one food that still causes you allergy, the gut is still bad with inflammation, and you become more and more allergic to other things that you weren't. That is what they explained. So only stopping all foods causing allergy can help stop the cascading effect.

My daughter was practically born with allergy problems. Wheat, cow milk, tomatoes, many fruits, all artificial additives, colorants, etc.

I do think that heavy metals and chemicals (pesticides, drugs, glyphosate,etc) play a role in making allergy increase. And vaccinations.

It's not only lyme and infections.

Just have in mind that all autistic kids suffer from gut problems and allergies, according to dr. K.

I guess it's a mix of pathogenic soup and toxic soup.The body simply is lost and over reacts.

Borrelia causes inflammation, the body gets into that fight-flight stage.

dr. K says we are almost always surely allergic to heavy metals too.

That is another reason the body does not recognize them as heavy metals and cannot drive them out: we simply react with inflammation, thinking it's a pathogen, but we don't see them as they are (the same way our immune systems do not see Borrelia well, we only over react to it with inflammation and cannot kill it and put it off).

After lyme was gone, surely, great number of allergies disappeared as fast as they appeared.

But some did not, and the mechanism that causes allergies never turned totally off, for me.

my daughter has been fighting allergies since birth, but only recently we see some improvements.

Avoidance is one way to treat, unless you are allergic to everything (it happens more often than we think).

This year has been my best year since I'm lyme remission. I can eat so many fruits again.

I think we should avoid fruits that are not from the season (they usually cause me some reaction), and prefer fruits that are from close by (so that they come ALREADY more ripe).

EAting unripe fruits is bad, same as unripe tomatoes.
You can plant them on your own, even in vases, and eat them ONLY when they ripe in the plant.

But we usually take only the yellow tomatoes, they are much less acid than red ones.

Other bad things are pesticides and GMOs.

Specially GMOs are known to cause allergies EASILY in healthy people even. Never touch corn or soya, unless you are sure they are organic. They do havoc in the gut, and it seems the damage is for very very long term, as they change the DNA of gut flora according to some German studies in farmers here.

Note that GMO is not allowed here in Europe, but our cows eat GMO crops, imported.
And only that contact with the cow food is enough to make some farmers sick, terribly sick, with muscle loss, they lose the ability to work even, their whole gut flora is totally ill, thriving with deadly bacteria.

Daughter is getting better by avoiding the allergens, and recently, I believe, by taking phantom-minerals.

She looks so healthy, gained a bit of weight, and is cheating on diet because she feels she 'can cheat'. This year, she got no new allergy, on the contrary, she's getting less allergic to things that she would normally react.

Let's see if the situation goes better in winter. I think Vit D3 in winter helps us with allergies too, somehow.