Wed, Aug-31-22, 07:42
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Plan: Atkins-ish (hypoglycemia)
Stats: 000/000/000
BF:
Progress: 50%
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My mother had always had issues with milk. When mom would have an upset stomach as a child, grandma would always give her milk to drink because she believed it would settle her stomach. It didn't - mom would just start "burping up" the milk. (At least that's how mom described it - sounds like it was not-quite-vomiting, but she'd very mildly regurgitate sour milk into her mouth) Not wanting to outwardly disobey her mother by refusing the milk, she eventually started hiding when she had an upset stomach, so that grandma wouldn't try to get her to drink milk to settle her stomach. If grandma found out she had an upset stomach and gave her milk anyway, she'd wait until Grandma was out of the room and just pour the milk in the chamber pot because she knew by the taste of sour milk coming back up that the milk wasn't helping at all.
As as adult, she apparently did fine with milk (likely in limited amounts) for many years, but at some point in her 30's or 40's it started to bother her again.
I don't know if the lactose bothered her or not, but what she eventually figured out was that if she used canned milk to make a cooked product, then she could tolerate it, but not uncooked canned milk. I don't know if the canning process (evaporating the milk AND the high heat canning process), plus cooking it again (for instance when making pumpkin pie) affected the lactose content, casein content, or perhaps the protein structure.
She'd had erratic gastric troubles for decades. At one point she was told she had a spastic colon. Later they said it was colitis. Another time they said it was irritable bowel.
She'd had allergy testing done due to chronic congestion and post nasal drainage. They couldn't find anything she was allergic to, and finally came to the conclusion that she was allergic to herself. (??? Sounds crazy to me too) Since there were no allergies shown by the testing, they gave her allergy shots supposedly based on serum made from her own body (saliva? blood? phlegm? I can't remember what they used). At this point, and with a couple of her grandchildren having been properly diagnosed with auto-immune conditions, I suspect what she really had was an auto-immune condition.
It's entirely possible that since they didn't test for food allergies, she might have also had a gluten sensitivity , since she ate bread and other wheat based products nearly every single day of her life -Except[U] for when her erratic gastric troubles became so bad that she would stop eating everything other than white rice and boiled potatoes for a few days until her gut settled down. (coincidentally enough, both rice and potatoes happen to be Gluten free)
Since she died a few years ago (and had dementia/Alzheimers the last decade or more of her life) it's not possible to find out more about her symptoms and gastro history at this point, but I'm beginning to suspect that there was some kind of link between eating gluten, and having some sort of dairy sensitivity (although I always thought it was protein related, rather than lactose related), with a very likely auto-immune condition confusing things even more.
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