Hi I have Lymphoedema & lipoedema ( lucky me) having problems with lots of foods, anyone got any ideas what i can eat?

[Belinda3]

Can't eat pork sometimes, fish, cuicumber, melon, pineapple, bananas, mushrooms, pastries, cream, stuffing and more recently bread, get tremendous pain & blotting. Seems to be getting worse as I get older ( I'm 43)

[Lynora]

You could find a fully qualified nutritional therapist (try the BANT website - bant.org.uk) and work with them on finding the triggers to your reactions to the various foods.

I had a cousin a long time ago who didn't just develop intolerance - she was severely allergic to any form of nut - but we didn't know, and when I was young, very little was understood about anaphylaxsis or the need to carry Epipens! She learnt to live with it very well, and also found she had intolerance to a number of other foods. Her doctors (and we are back in the late 50's now!!) told her to eat just basic foods for a while, so that she could introduce stuff and see how she reacted. I remember her eating only pears and roast lamb for months, with only water to drink!!! I know as we grew up, she became more adventurous with her food, but always had to be careful, and couldn't go into restaurants just in case they had used nuts or nut oil in the food prep. She never had regular bread, but could tolerate rye 'bread' without much trouble, so life was ideal when her husband got a posting to Germany with the army - lots of rye bread there!!

[Rebec]

In my humble opinion, you should try different vegetables, in small quantities and wait to see how your body reacts. Also, you might try pittas as they contain less additives than normal bread, and also white ones and not the whole meal ones. You can try, maybe, toasted white bread as the stomach tolerates this better, in case the bread you ate before was brown and 'heavier'.

[naominorthenellis]

i would suggest that you get some blood tests done to see what foods are not agreeing with you. We use the York Test yorktest.com

I had my bloods tested by this company years ago and eliminating certain foods from my diet really helped.

Good luck. NNE

[andor42]

I have an aunt who suddenly became allergic to lots of foods at 50ish and of course its always the things you love the most. As time went on she found that many of the foods she could still eat in tin form. Apparently she was told the tanning/sterilising process a lot of the acids in fruit esp. evaporate in the process so she was able to eat them. Now 15years later her body has changed again and she has no problem eating most things. The body is wonderful but strange at times.