Best/worst gluten and dairy substitutes?

[badger]

I had a slice of pizza and some Annie's mac & cheese last night. Oh. My. G*d. I was so uncomfortable last night, even with taking digestive enzyme beforehand.

I can't stomach milk, literally and figuratively. It grosses me out to think I'm drinking breast milk from another animal.

A friend of mine has rheumatoid arthritis and she's cut out dairy from her diet. She reports that her flare ups are fewer and less painful now. I know I could do better without dairy, but sometimes it's just not the same eating soy ice cream.

[shootingstar]

I didn't know about overdosing on lattes for me..until I was on a 5 hr. bus ride. I learned my lesson.

I can imagine the problem for you badger for that mac 'n cheese...which actually I haven't had any mac 'n cheese ...um..for last 10 yrs.?? Kraft doesn't turn me on unless I'm really desperate in the wilderness or making it from scratch sounds like too much work (for me).

Each person's body is different, that's for sure!

[OakLeaf]

sometimes it's just not the same eating soy ice cream.

Try the coconut kind. It's brilliant.

(And I'm an American who doesn't use that word lightly. )

[KnottedYet]

I had a slice of pizza and some Annie's mac & cheese last night. Oh. My. G*d. I was so uncomfortable last night, even with taking digestive enzyme beforehand.

I can't stomach milk, literally and figuratively. It grosses me out to think I'm drinking breast milk from another animal.

A friend of mine has rheumatoid arthritis and she's cut out dairy from her diet. She reports that her flare ups are fewer and less painful now. I know I could do better without dairy, but sometimes it's just not the same eating soy ice cream.

There is no lactose in cheese. It gets digested by the critters that turn milk into cheese.

Little to no lactose in the pizza or the mac. However, both have a nice large dose of gluten, which is unaffected by OTC digestive enzymes.

Are you sure it's only dairy that is your problem?

(if it were a caseine issue, you'd have an allergic reaction to the cheese - histamine, autoimmune, and anaphylactic stuff)

Most celiackers are also missing the genetic trigger to produce enzyme to digest lactose as adults.

Just being Devil's Advocate here...

[badger]

There is no lactose in cheese. It gets digested by the critters that turn milk into cheese.

Little to no lactose in the pizza or the mac. However, both have a nice large dose of gluten, which is unaffected by OTC digestive enzymes.

Are you sure it's only dairy that is your problem?

(if it were a caseine issue, you'd have an allergic reaction to the cheese - histamine, autoimmune, and anaphylactic stuff)

Most celiackers are also missing the genetic trigger to produce enzyme to digest lactose as adults.

Just being Devil's Advocate here...

not sure. I knew that yogurt and cheese, because of the probiotics, are easier to digest, but I always feel somewhat icky after eating dairy. Me and latte...yeesh, after about an hour you do NOT want to be in the same room with me!!

And I LOVE bread. I'm able to digest that no problem, along with other stuff like pasta and crackers. Aside from the combustion problems after consuming dairy, I rarely have the "excited intestine" problem. Could I still be sensitive to gluten?

[OakLeaf]

I know that there's some controversy in the medical field about food allergies and histamine reactions, but as I understand it, it's really a definitional controversy. There's no question that many people have histamine reactions to many common foods; immunologists just quibble about whether it's truly an "allergy" in the technical sense of the word.

There's really no downside to just TRYING a challenge diet. It's a hassle for sure, but it will give you valuable information that you really can't get any other way (serum IgG yields lots of false positives, intracutaneous skin prick yields lots of false negatives, monitoring systemic reactions after subcutaneous injection just isn't that sensitive).