OT - Allergy Moms - I need your help!

[TriMom]

DH has Rheumatoid Arthritis, and is having huge issues with it right now. I have put my foot down, and insisted on treating it nutritionally as well as medically. There is a school of thought that RA can be triggered by common food allergies. After much research, I have found we need to eliminate the following foods:

Corn – including corn syrup
Wheat and wheat gluten
All Diary
Potatoes and Potato flour
MSG and Modified Food Starch
Tomatoes
Red Meat
Eggplant
Peppers
Peanuts
Shellfish

I would appreciate any recipes, substitution ideas, etc. that you all have found. Also if you have any good allergy related websites, I would love those links as well. After my first meal plan and shopping trip, I discover just how hard shopping can be, and I will welcome any help I can get.

Thanks so much!!!!

 

[syko]

I use www.allergygrocer.com
They have a Search Products By Allergen section to make it easy and there customer service is . I do not know what I would do with out there carrot cake.

 

[bumbershoot]

I would look into macrobiotic cookbooks and websites. Since you're dumping the nightshade family (good call, by the way) (and that's the potato, pepper, tomato, eggplant group the OP has listed, to anyone who wondered), which is a HUGE part of macrobiotics, I bet they'd have some nice help for you.

Though macro also tends to have astonishingly expensive ingredients (umeboshi plums, for instance), so you might want to ignore those (for now at least), LOL.

Also look into vegetarian and vegan cookbooks and recipe sites, with the dairy and red meat elimination.

Might I also recommend that you go with organic/free range meat for the chicken you might keep in your diet? No need to stress his system with the pesticides and whatnot in the meat he keeps in his diet. And you'll very likely be shopping at the health food stores anyway...

good luck to your husband!!!!

 

[Gillian]

I just read The biochemical machine by Eleonora De Lennart. She has some interesting ideas about eating that you might find helpful. Her eating plan is a lot easier than giving up all of those foods, so if your DH hasn't started yet, it might be a good thing to try first. It is possible to eliminate allergens as well. It's only available used, and you need to make sure you get the food chart that's included.

 

[monorailsilver]

My 4 yo ds is allergic to dairy, peanuts, treenuts & some what eggs (I can use them to cook with & he has no reaction).

I got this tip from my dairy free yahoo group. My oldest loves pancakes & I always made them with skim milk. Well after finding out my ds was allergic to dairy I had to think of a new way.

I tried soy milk & they were yucky. Someone on that yahoo group said to substitute apple juice for the milk.

So I do & they taste yummy. If he outgrows the dairy allergy I don't know if I will go back to skim milk in my pancakes. I use bisquick for them & I also follow their recipe for biscuits & use the AJ vs the milk & they taste great too.

At first it may seem really hard reading all the ingriedients & you will feel like their is nothing you can give to your dh. But give yourself a month & it will seem so easy (or somewhat easy). Oh & check out store brands too. Sometimes they don't add the expensive ingriedients (milk) to their things.

 

[LoriMomx5]

I am a health care professional with Lupus and I have a 9 year old with juvenile RA. There has been recent research that indicates that Omega 3 and 6 fats- fish oil is beneficial in controlling the inflammatory process of RA. You can get this by supplement or eating foods such as fish that have them in it. Some types of fish however need to be limited in the diet to only 2-3 servings per week because of levels of mercury. Hope this is helpful. Lori

 

[LuckyMamaInDE]

For allergy-related websites, one of my favorites is http://kidswithfoodallergies.org

Best of luck!

 

[allergymoms]

Revolution health has a new Child Food Allergy Center where you can get help for free: You can just go onto the revolution health website and search food allergies. ( I cant post a link here)

I'd also recommend Cybele Pascals Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook : really delicious and healthy recipes.

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