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Mistakes in food choice
Thank you for all of your replies. I think it was just too much beta carotene. If I had just eaten it one day I probably wouldn’t have noticed it. But after three days I had overdosed.
As for methanol, I quit chewing aspartame gum a long time ago. I never noticed anything from it except that it was kind of addictive because of the flavor enhancing and saliva producing effects.
Quote from salt on September 16, 2020, 1:04 pmQuote from tim on August 22, 2020, 5:09 pmWhat you are describing sounds more like an allergy or a deficiency of something that's making you extremely sensitive to vA.
I disagree. It sounds exactly like a reaction to carotenoids.
A reaction to carotenoids, like an allergy? The lycopene and other carotenoids in one tomato don't inherently cause symptoms like that.
Quote from lil chick on August 25, 2020, 6:41 amI dropped that rec about vinegar in broth after doing it a few times. Vinegar doesn't seem to belong in a basic broth. My taste buds don't want it in there.
I came out in a rash yesterday across the torso--my bad area that has been mostly quiet--can't help but blame the jugs of salsa that hubs is forcing me to eat (LOL)
Hubs thinks he has come out with poison ivy on his hand, but is he also responding to the salsa?
Then I thought to myself, poison ivy . rhus tox. red toxin. Didn't Grant once talk about how the allergen in poison ivy is so closely related to VA?
I once had poison ivy right across my torso. Isn't that interesting? And my problems with excess itchyness there came after that horrible bout.
@tim-2, You mentioned allergy to VA, I suppose there could be some odd cross-sensitivity between carotene(s) and poison ivy
Are people who are having instantaneous carotene reactions all allergic to poison ivy?
I am having a poison ivy like rash on my hand after moving to eating about 1/3-1/2 the RDA of forms of vA, beta carotene, etc, for the last 3 weeks. (I did the diet some years ago, felt better, but got distracted with life, got megadoses in multivitamins, and have come back to it now.) The rash is open and weepy and spreads if I scratch it.
Oh no, that sounds awful. I hope it stops soon.