Blasted Butties

[micox]

Hi. I seem to be getting an allergic reaction from the bread our shop sells. In 82 years I've never known the like. Is possible that COPD and the medication for prevention and maintenance is triggering this. Very odd!

[Patsy164]

My husband swears some of my problems with digestion and other problems are down to all the different medication I am on. We will never know I am afraid x

[Hidden]

what kind of allergic reaction are you getting?

Certainly white bread anything with commercial white flour can cause bloating / digestive problems - both can impact on breathing.

[micox in reply to Hidden]

Streaming nose/breathing shutting down.

[Hidden in reply to micox]

It is possibly to develop a wheat allergy at any point in life, but I wonder if you are pretty sure it that particular bread, maybe try a different bread. Rye bread maybe or corn bread from Tesco bakery. Sainsbury's seaded loaf is pretty good too.

[peege]

Give up the bread for a few days micox to see if the problem clears up. A couple of weeks ago I had a streaming nose & bunged up, I really thought I'd caught a chill even though I'd not been near anyone for weeks. It turned out to be an insecticide spray I'd used. .....they might have changed the bread recipe!

[Aingeful]

It could be gluten? My daughter has gone gluten free because of problems.

[HungryHufflepuff]

You can develop allergies to things at any stage of your life, which I only learned relatively recently. I used to think you were either allergic to something, or not. But you can become allergic to something that you previously were fine with. Or it could be that the baker has recently changed an ingredient and you’re intolerant to that.

[gillianTS]

Hi micox

Having this kind of reaction must be very alarming to you after eating a food you have previously eaten without problems. Have you changed your butter/margarine, I ask this based upon a report in the European Respiratory Journal "Dietary factors associated with wheezing and allergic rhinitis in children" talks about bread and butter: erj.ersjournals.com/content...

Ingredients in foods change all the time, from processing of raw ingredients to the adding of preservatives and enhancers, and of course companies change suppliers all the time. Baker’s asthma is an occupational asthma that bakery employees develop after being exposed to cereal grains such as wheat, rye and yeast.

What I would say based upon your streaming nose this sounds very much like a allergic reaction to something with the added horrible problems of your breathing shutting down, I would not delay in removing this bread from your diet entirely since the risks appear to high. I have this streaming nose issue and after seeing ENT consultant I was advised to look at my diet, I removed gluten from my diet, but I have not experienced your breathing difficulties which sound alarming.

I know this might sound dramatic but if you experience significant shortness of breath following a meal, you should seek medical advice. You could be having an anaphylactic reaction, even if you don't have known food allergies. Sometimes, the first indication of a severe food allergy is this type of reaction, and quick treatment could save your life.

[Ergendl]

The Chorleywood process which uses weak UK flour rather than strong Canadian and US flour, appeared in commercial force in the 1960s,. It uses a high yeast, high sugar dough with flour improvers that is extruded into square tins and expands through air pressure as it bakes. Quite a different process to traditional bread baking which uses flour, yeast, a little sugar to get the yeast working, a little fat to make the bread keep, and salt to flavour.After 60 years of consumers eating this cheap Chorleywood bread, even many commercially baked traditional bread products now also have a sugar content between 3g and 4g per 100g to suit modern taste.

Look for bread that has a dome top rather than a flat top, and a sugar content of around 1g to 2g if you want to avoid it. The bread will usually be more expensive.

[Yatzy in reply to Ergendl]

Crikey, didn’t know that....thanks 🤔