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Specific Food Allergies > Sulfite/Food Additive Sensitivities
Sulfite Reactions: How do you treat one?
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Arkadia
Member
Posted: 01.11.2009 at 01:28:44
um....if I had eaten pepperoini, pizza, prosicuitto, wine and beer, I'd have been blowing chow, hanging on while the room spun, and felt like I had a serious case of flu into the next day.
Anything over two drinks and I'm nauseated from room spins period. My mother had her gallbladder out around forty five (?) but it was a long call to supper prior to it. <crosses fingers>
I've been known to overthink things though and hey, it's just what I remember, I could be wrong, but your body will metabolize booze before it metabolizes fat and stores excess alcohol in the liver. Can't quite pull it out my head how it translates to a fatty liver, something to do with altered metabolism, but it's a pretty potent drug. Actually, anything in excess of one drink a day is considered excessive. Personally? If I had 30 drinks a month I'd be useless. Utterly useless.
I consider myself lucky I get sick off anything in excess of two drinks and always have.
If I drink two glasses of wine tonight it would take me up to three days to get over the effects. I'm that in tune to it. If I have a drink again in three days after that, I'll be hanging the entire next morning.
I'm not saying it's not a "sulfite" reaction, only you and your doctor can decide that, just imagining myself in those same shoes and thinking yes, I'd feel like death warmed over.
"We're going to make everyone get along whether they like it or not."
~Oldest son, age 16, upon being asked what most typifies his generation.
admin rebekahc:
Daisy
Member
Posted: 01.11.2009 at 08:10:09
01.10.2009 at 09:07:05, McCobbre wrote:
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After a few sips (over the course of 15 minutes), I suddenly felt like I'd had way too much to drink. And that doesn't make sense with the amount of alcohol. Then my stomach started to feel strange, and I thought that if I ate more, it would help with having had too much alcohol. But then I felt so full I couldn't eat more. I just felt yucky. There's no other way to describe it. Miserable.
Last night the big D was also involved, which was also new, and I thought I was going to throw up a few times. A couple of years ago I actually did throw up with a sulfite reaction.
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:banghead:
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I share Arkadia's thoughts, too. I bolded the section about how you were feeling...perhaps a little too much fatty food? A friend told me her doc said as folks get a little older they do not process fats as well, even without gallbladder disease.
Try the snacks again in a couple of weeks, without the alcohol to be sure.
When my sulfite allergy started to get noticeably significant I took Communion one day and just the tiniest sip of wine was enough to start my "Uh-oh", flushing, reaction cascade.
Take care,
Daisy
Self: seafood, egg, nuts, sulfites, yellow dye, IV contrast
GA - USA
admin rebekahc:
McCobbre
Moderator
Posted: 01.12.2009 at 06:52:17
See what you mean, but I strongly disagree. This "full" feeling is not like anything typical. The only time I have felt like this is during sulfite reactions. It's not indigestion or overstuffing. I can't describe it, but it just feels very different than anything else.
I had about 5 thumb-sized pieces of prosciutto on my pizza, and I snacked on about six pieces of pepperoni. I had a total of about two drinks (one beer, four sips of wine, and later, a few sips of a second beer). This ordinarily wouldn't faze me with anything except a little buzz.
I put my symptoms here because I'm starting to see a pattern. And it's very, very different than any other reaction---or response to food.
"Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic. They are potent forms of enchantment, rich with the power to hurt or heal."~Albus Dumbledore
Me: shellfish, chamomile, sesame and a few odds & ends
DS: peanuts
admin rebekahc:
Daisy
Member
Posted: 01.12.2009 at 07:52:01
I see what you mean. I thought perhaps this was more of a GI feeling, but it sounds like it might be a pattern for you.
Sorry,
daisy
Self: seafood, egg, nuts, sulfites, yellow dye, IV contrast
GA - USA
admin rebekahc:
McCobbre
Moderator
Posted: 01.26.2009 at 09:30:31
Ah--last Friday night--same dinner with three variables present two weeks ago but not then:
--no Doctor Who
--no wine
--no prosciutto
I was fine.
I'm refusing to believe that the Doctor has a single thing to do with this. And I'm sticking to that.
"Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic. They are potent forms of enchantment, rich with the power to hurt or heal."~Albus Dumbledore
Me: shellfish, chamomile, sesame and a few odds & ends
DS: peanuts
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