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Food intolerances & sensitivities

JT

I seem to suffer from a lot of these, do you? Is this common in ASC?

I can't eat gluten, dairy, eggs, onions, anything spicey, mustard, and nuts & other fibre scratch my insides so it flares up inflammation in my intestine (IBD).

I was only diagnosed with ASC this year, but was curious if these issues with digestion I've had since 2012 were common for those on the spectrum?

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  • Yeah I can't eat gluten, dairy, spicy foods, and certain nuts, because of bowel inflammation and other issues, but that's not to say that I don't like those foods, I do, but my body acts up, so I had to find alternatives or stop eating them. But if I had the choice I would just eat anything, if my body allowed me to.

    Some fruits and dried fruit cause migraines, but I think that has something to do with what they spray onto the fruit. Sometimes I'm fine eating fruit, and at other times it'll cause a migraine.

    Strawberries have caused a gluten-like reaction which confused me, so I looked it up, and I read that sometimes to protect the strawberries from frost, they'll use wheat straw or hay to protect the strawberries. No amount of washing or freezing I did changed anything. I like strawberries, but I avoid them now because I can't tell if they've been cross-contaminated with wheat or not. 

    I rarely drink coffee, and when I do it's in very small amounts, like a centimeter of coffee and the rest is almond milk and sugar, and for me, it can take the entire day to drink 1 cup of coffee. Otherwise it'll give me a migraine. 

    I drink wine on occassion, but I don't really like the taste of alcohol in general. I avoid beer because it uses barley (gluten), and whenever I have tried beer in the past I'd have digestive issues. 

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  • Yeah I can't eat gluten, dairy, spicy foods, and certain nuts, because of bowel inflammation and other issues, but that's not to say that I don't like those foods, I do, but my body acts up, so I had to find alternatives or stop eating them. But if I had the choice I would just eat anything, if my body allowed me to.

    Some fruits and dried fruit cause migraines, but I think that has something to do with what they spray onto the fruit. Sometimes I'm fine eating fruit, and at other times it'll cause a migraine.

    Strawberries have caused a gluten-like reaction which confused me, so I looked it up, and I read that sometimes to protect the strawberries from frost, they'll use wheat straw or hay to protect the strawberries. No amount of washing or freezing I did changed anything. I like strawberries, but I avoid them now because I can't tell if they've been cross-contaminated with wheat or not. 

    I rarely drink coffee, and when I do it's in very small amounts, like a centimeter of coffee and the rest is almond milk and sugar, and for me, it can take the entire day to drink 1 cup of coffee. Otherwise it'll give me a migraine. 

    I drink wine on occassion, but I don't really like the taste of alcohol in general. I avoid beer because it uses barley (gluten), and whenever I have tried beer in the past I'd have digestive issues. 

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