Re: Re: salicylates in sprouts

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Emma,

> I don't understand how medicine can justify giving a salicylate

> medication for crohn's and collitis, when it is so well known that

> salicylates cause GI bleeding and distress!

This information is second hand, but apparently, if I remember it

correctly, Dr. Fine is a big advocate of Pepto Bismol for gut

distress. Apparently there is a lot of success, but I am not the only

one who tried this protocol with bad results. For me, it gave me

incredibly loose stools that became increasingly loose in direct

proportion to the degree to which they became black. The black is

from the bismuth, but it should be a fairly good marker for the effect

of the Pepto Bismol in general, so the correlation is another data

point supporting my impression that the PB gave me the loose stools.

It further gave me a perpetual slamming headache like I've never had.

> In answer to the title of this post " salicylates in sprouts " - there

> are salicylates in sprouts - 0.07mg. I have to be careful not to eat

> too many of them because they can give me symptoms.

That's interesting, because when I was eating a lot of sprouts on

salads and whatnot, I noticed I never had a problem when they were on

salad, but when I would try to eat sprouts alone (and thus ate more of

them) they would make my mouth itchy, which is similar to a *mild*

reaction to almonds and a reaction I have to certain types of fruits.

NT says something about sprouts having " irritants " so I chalked it up

to that.

Chris

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Are your itchy mouth symptoms not due to aspergillus reactivity? Sprouts

host a lot of mold if you are not overdoing it in rinsing. Almonds and other

dry nuts too. Does anyone know more about this? Crossing of molds and

aspergillus precisely. I see in my private class lots of people with IgG

results to lots of products: they vary but I quite often see aspergillus

niger in the lot. I wonder about this fact but have no way of inquiring.

Maybe Emma will know?

Regards

TAty

Re: Re: salicylates in sprouts

> Emma,

>

>> I don't understand how medicine can justify giving a salicylate

>> medication for crohn's and collitis, when it is so well known that

>> salicylates cause GI bleeding and distress!

>

> This information is second hand, but apparently, if I remember it

> correctly, Dr. Fine is a big advocate of Pepto Bismol for gut

> distress. Apparently there is a lot of success, but I am not the only

> one who tried this protocol with bad results. For me, it gave me

> incredibly loose stools that became increasingly loose in direct

> proportion to the degree to which they became black. The black is

> from the bismuth, but it should be a fairly good marker for the effect

> of the Pepto Bismol in general, so the correlation is another data

> point supporting my impression that the PB gave me the loose stools.

> It further gave me a perpetual slamming headache like I've never had.

>

>> In answer to the title of this post " salicylates in sprouts " - there

>> are salicylates in sprouts - 0.07mg. I have to be careful not to eat

>> too many of them because they can give me symptoms.

>

> That's interesting, because when I was eating a lot of sprouts on

> salads and whatnot, I noticed I never had a problem when they were on

> salad, but when I would try to eat sprouts alone (and thus ate more of

> them) they would make my mouth itchy, which is similar to a *mild*

> reaction to almonds and a reaction I have to certain types of fruits.

> NT says something about sprouts having " irritants " so I chalked it up

> to that.

>

> Chris

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>

>

>

>

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Taty,

> Are your itchy mouth symptoms not due to aspergillus reactivity?

That's quite possible, although I have much more of a reason to think

I react to salicylates. Of course, they aren't mutually exclusive.

Chris

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Emma,

> Think I got tangled up in another of those cultural/language problems

> here. In the UK if someone says " sprouts " they usually mean Brussels

> sprouts

Oh, I see. Here, if you mention brussells sprouts, you'll probably

get a very strange look, unless your talking about doing something to

them besides eating them. Or maybe if you're talking about how to

punish your kids for something really bad they did.

>- we usually call the other kind of sprouts " bean sprouts " !

Well " bean sprouts " usually refers to the sprouts of Mung beans, I

think. There are some other sprouts of certain plants that aren't

usually called beans. Like Alfalfa sprouts, for example. More

recently, they are selling garlic and broccoli sprouts.

> I honestly don't know. But raw salad vegetables are the only thing

> that ever gives me acid - tomato, onion, celery (and that is supposed

> to be failsafe). I don't know what the " irritants " are but I'd like to

> find out.

A lot of raw celery bothers me, especially if I eat it plain.

Tomatoes are horrible. I kind of knew this for years but never really

made anything of it until I realized they were high in basically every

food chemical in this recent discussion. I always just noticed " hmm,

it seems like my gums get more inflamed when I eat foods with tomato

sauce, " but didn't put a whole lot of faith in the observation because

I wasn't sure why that would be.

Chris

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