Posted by: Rose
« on: January 16, 2014, 10:56:20 PM »
Okay, a little background first. I've been lactose intolerant for a few years now, but it was always sort of mild so I mostly just ignored it. I ate aged cheese mostly, and completely avoided milk. Lately, I've been trying to crack down on it though.
About two years ago I tried soy milk for the first time and it made me really ill. I had huge stomach cramps, much, much more painful then straight cow milk ever gave me, and diarrhea. I thought it maybe was just a bad batch of soy milk, but my boyfriend drank the rest just fine. I didn't even drink it by it's self, I used it in cereal (that I did finish without any stomach problems). To be completely honest, I am not even sure if I'm allergic to soy. I haven't seen a doctor about it yet. (hey, i'm just a waitress, i can't afford it...)
Since then, I've tried to avoid soy. The only thing I didn't avoid was Soy Sauce, because I know it doesn't effect me in any way, and products that contain soy lecithin because a lot of products I've used for years have it and nothing's happened.
About a year ago, I was headed to work and I didn't eat anything all day, so I stopped by a gas station and picked up a protein bar without looking at the ingredients. Very soon after eating it, I started feeling very dizzy and light headed, my throat was itchy, and it was kind of hard to breathe. I looked at the wrapper and, of course, it had a ton of various soy things.
So, my question. What the heck is Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, and based on the two reactions I've had to heavily soy-based reactions, do you think I should avoid it? I can't recall reading it in an ingredients list before, and I can't find anything with google, for some reason.