meat "intolerance"?

[Leah]

Okay, so I have a question. If you are tested by Enterolab and it says that you are somewhat intolerant to certain meats, does that mean that you should be able to tell within the same day whether you react to eating them? I understand about the dairy, gluten, soy, and egg reaction could be delayed and ongoing ( and inflammatory), but what about meats... and for that matter, other grains?

[Belle]

i tested for a 9.5 for beef and i am also not sure if that means i need to avoid it. i have been meanwhile although at one point i was having veal b/c i thought it was a lighter easier to digest meat

[carolm]

Leah, someone else probably has a better answer than I do, because I am still fairly new to this. All I can compare it to is my reaction to eggs. When I was on Entocort I could tolerate eggs. Off of Entocort I would react to eggs within about 4 hours of eating them-- rumbling, nausea, and cramping. I don't eat them anymore. I know Enterolab said I have some reaction to meat, but I have not had this reaction to chicken and beef so I continue to eat them, rotating them with turkey through my diet. I know the last time I ate a small slice on tomato on a sandwich in the evening, I saw it the next morning undigested in a bout of D. So, I'm thinking that if it's something I am going to react strongly to I would probably react within 12 hours.

I'll be eager to hear what others have to say.

Carol

[tex]

That test wasn't available back when I was recovering, of course, but here's how beef affected me, (the following is a quote from a post I made over 6 years ago:

I react very uniquely to beef, also. I don't get D either, no matter how much I eat, or how often I eat it. My symptoms consist of a little bloating, beginning about 3 or 4 hours after I eat it, along with an overall cruddy "something is wrong" feeling, followed in about an hour, by a slight to moderate headache, and usually some stiffness/soreness in my neck, and sometimes shoulders. By the next morning, I'm usually back to normal, again.

That's from post number 5, (the last post), in this thread:

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2084

These days, beef doesn't affect me, but for all I know, I might possibly be producing antibodies to beef, because casein doesn't seem to cause symptoms, either, but I definitely produce antibodies to casein.

The point is, it was always a minor issue, for me, compared with gluten, or any other food-sensitivities, but it obviously produced leaky gut symptoms, back before my gut healed.

Tex