death to soy

[rootofnewt]

so... we've eaten Penne & Chreese LOTS. recently, the packaging changed. a quick glance over the ingredients revealed nothing extraordinary, though the ingredients seemed to have changed a bit.

the texture and taste isn't as good as it used to be. and now it makes my lips burn and itch horribly. needless to say, i dropped the bowl and ran to spit and wash out my mouth thoroughly.

wasn't quick enough. now i have itchy blisters.

*sigh*

as if that wasn't bad enough, i managed to get ahold of soy at some point yesterday or the day before and broke out in that damn dishydrotic eczema crap. i think it might've been one of the free weeklies i was reading. some newspresses use soy ink... i was reading The Hook while waiting for boy. i was reading in the car, so i was *holding* the paper in my hands. normally, i put the paper on the floor or a table and read it while turning it with just a finger or two and i wash my hands frequently.

*sigh*

i'm itchy.

i hate allergies.

Comments

[dizzyblind.livejournal.com]

I've heard about soy being an allergin for eczema before but I haven't tried cutting it out of my diet. Maybe I should try that.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

*anything* can cause allergic eczema.

I was taken off human and mammal milk as an infant (severe lactose intolerance) and put on soy formula. incidentally, i had eczema from infancy. my doctors blamed it on dry skin, skin allergies, or nothing (idiopathic)...

When I started having allergic reactions to food, I was tested and soy was singled out. I gave up soy and the hives went away and I could breathe again. It was a nice thing. My doctor told me I could keep soy oil, soy sauce, lecithin, and additives unless I found myself reacting. I started getting hives, so I cut them *all* out. My lifelong eczema (hands, knuckles, elbows, knees, ankles, behind the ears, some other random spots) disappeared.

I can tell if I've had soy because my ears crack first. The dishydrotic eczema is something that's plagued me off and on for the last year. I've been drinking chai creme frapps weekly because I was told they were safe. A few weeks ago, our favorite barista told me, "You can't have those!!" and fetched the "thickener" mix. Way down on the list--hydrogenated soybean oil. I gave them up--the stuff went away.

Right now, it's back--I got soy-i-fied somewhere recently. Possibly at Tokyo Rose when I broke out in hives after touching som soy sauce and sitting next to Jason and Anton. Possibly the ink from the newspaper. My ears are itchy behind and the blisters are back on my hands.

You could try soy. Did giving up wheat not help? What kind of eczema is it? Have you been tested for celiac sprue?

Milk is another common culprit for eczema, as are detergents, chlorine, and fabric softeners.

[ismene.livejournal.com]

Since it's a product you've used a lot before, I recommend writing to them and complaining that they've changed their recipe to include the evil of soy.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I wrote to ask whether their annatto could possibly be contaminated. None of the chreese products are supposed to contain soy, yet I KNOW this product's ingredients changed dramatically.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I thought of you today when I received a complimentary copy of Vegetarian Times in the mail, and as I was leafing through the recipes, I noticed how much soy is used in vegetarian cooking - at least according to this magazine. And nearly everything advertised was soy derived or contained soy.

[nimrodiel.livejournal.com]

I've noticd that too. Though one thing I like about many of their recipies is that they usually are not too hard to alter.

But they have made alot of their recipies Vegan friendly. It seems like people want easy quick recipies instead of actually planning what they eat these days.

There is a cookbook called Vegitarian Planet by Diddi Emmons that I like alot. It has very few to no soy recipies in it.

I like the recipies in this book alot

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Every once in awhile, I write them a cranky letter about having soy-free dishes. ;) They're pretty good about it every so often. And some recipes are easily altered, but it seems like they use soy sauce as a flavoring in *everything*... hello! some of us like to flavor our foods with substances OTHER than salt and free glutamate!

They hired a new food person from http://www.vegsource.com/ and who LOVES soy. She also provides soy-free alternatives on the site, but I have to remind her every so often that such-and-such does *not* come in a soy-free variety whatsoever.