Lesliec1 The nickel allergy seems to present as hand eczema as it's primary symptom, but also causes chronic fatigue and joint/muscle pain. There's not a huge amount of research out there. One paper even called it a phenomenon. My guess is if only .15% of the population have a dietary nickel allergy, AND you have to eat a high nickel diet (plant based with oatmeal?), it just doesn't happen enough that it's well know.
I've read a little about about Burgess, he's on a low sulfur diet I think? How do you find the content of sulfur in foods? That's part of the problem with nickel. It depends on where the food is grown, to some degree.
The shoe thing might have been partially due to the nickel thing.
I do consider myself to be pretty good at troubleshooting, but detective might be fun.
Chile I mostly use aluminum cookware, but makes me think I should switch to enameled or something.
JohnLarson Right now I'm eating frosted mini wheats, but once that's gone (tomorrow), I'll probably switch to grits or cream of wheat. Once I'm fully healed, maybe I'll just start rotating breakfast and reintroduce oatmeal back in, with the vitamin-c added.
nicoles Coincidentally, there maybe some tie in with nickel and U.C./Crohns/IBS. Found this thread in my research.
http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?t=49731Melinda I knew there had to be a reason. I accused the electric blanket (which honestly is still not off the hook, I mean nickel is a metal and could have been affected by an EM field, just saying), that new mouthwash. Diet seemed to be the next most likely cause, but what was I supposed to change? Go back to SAD? I even ate nuts a bit for a couple of weeks thinking I might be too low in fat consumption. Ironically all nuts are high in nickel, so it sure didn't get any better.
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We had our friends from out of town staying with us this past weekend. Then we held a cookout for 30 people total on Sunday. The wife made a vegetable couscous, and I made gluten italian sausage and a dairy/fat free mushroom risotto. The last time I made it, I thought the lemon juice took away from the dish, so I took some out to the wife for her to taste, she said, "I'm not sure this could be improved on. I might have to start hating you."
Anyways, here's the recipe (I leave out the margarine and the oil. I also left out the spinach this last time because I didn't want to scare away the SAD eaters);
http://dairyfreecooking.about.com/od/vegetarianentreessides/r/vegrisotto.htm