NO-ALLERGY DIET: ABOUT CHEESE AND EGG-FREE DIET
The cheese stands alone
You may find you can tolerate every other milk product except cheese, not even lactose-free varieties. The trouble may stem from the mould-type fermentation that turns milk into cheese. Cottage cheese is mould-free. Dr Breneman told us that some cheese-sensitive people can tolerate farmer’s cheese and homemade cheese, which are often mould-free.
If moulds aren’t your problem, but cheese still makes you miserable, you may be sensitive to tyramine, a natural substance in cheese and other foods — notably chocolate, yoghurt, beer, red wine, gin, bourbon and vodka – that tends to trigger migraine headaches. If that’s the case, you may be able to eat only a tiny sliver of cheese, as long as you don’t eat any other tyramine-containing food or drink along with it.
Egg-free diet
We tend to forget that a lot of foods contain eggs. They show up in all kinds of goodies. Puddings, cakes, pancakes and waffles all contain eggs. And eggs are the stuff noodles, custards and mayonnaise are made of. Eggs show up in ice cream and marshmallows. Occasionally, eggs are even used to make root beer foam.
Like those allergic to milk, people allergic to eggs may be sensitive to only a part of the food: in this case, either the white or the yolk. (Whites are usually the problem.) The method of cooking also makes a difference. Some people can tolerate hard-boiled eggs, but not soft-boiled. Others can cook their eggs until they’re tough as golf balls and still be allergic. Very rarely, a person is so sensitive to eggs that he or she can’t tolerate chicken either. Another egg-related product – vaccines grown on egg cultures – should also be approached cautiously if you’re allergic to eggs. (Ask your doctor about a vaccine’s base if you are allergic to eggs.)
So what can you eat, if not eggs? Plenty. Practically all meats and vegetables. Potatoes. Rice. Fruit. Watch out for code words for eggs on food labels: vitellin, ovotellin, livetin, ovomucin and albumin.
A word about egg substitutes: so many of these products contain other highly allergic substances and additives – notably yellow food dye – that we can’t recommend them. You may end up trading one allergy for another.
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