Look into an anti-histamine diet. I was experiencing the same thing until a random doctor at an urgent care clinic asked me about a small rash (that I wasn’t there for). He dug deep into my allergy history, and it was a revelation. I changed my diet and everything changed for the better. It was strange going from keto/low-carb to low-histamine and nixing things like avocado, tomato, and bacon, and adding carby foods like potato and oatmeal, but the pounds (and my blood sugar) dropped, and my allergies all but disappeared. Might be worth looking into. But I’ll warn you… it’s a LOT. Prepare to read.
Look into a PEG400 test. It’s poly-ethylene glycol. It’s to measure how “leaky” your gut is. The tight-junctions between your cells in your small intestines are supposed to prevent things from entering your blood stream, causing an immune response. If you have a leaky gut, you’re going to have to take some steps to help your tight junctions heal.
Try looking into the autoimmune protocol diet. It’s an elimination diet designed for you to reintroduce things until you work out your problem foods. Based on your other comments the tomatoes could be causing some of your issues - nightshade vegetables are one of the major problem groups for autoimmune peeps.
I’ve done a version of this diet for about three years. I was puffed up like a balloon from inflammation to start with, and my first extended fast was also such a massive relief.
Check out the carnivore diet, it’s not for everyone, but if you’ve got a suspected auto immune condition, and need to reset and adjust, to then begin adding in foods slowing to figure out what you are allergic too.
Here’s a great talk by Dr Paul Mason on lectins and how they could be the cause of autoimmune conditions developing.
I’ve had similar things happen to me, but barely detectable. If you’re willing to explore alternative therapies, I highly recommend seeing someone who does muscle testing (like Nutrition Response Testing, but preferably a muscle testing style with a less scammy payment program). They can really help identify what the root of the problem is and what will help. I also recommend seeing a holistic five element acupuncturist and chinese herbalist.
I can’t say that I’m over my autoimmune problems, but my acupuncurist cured me of other severe health problems with chinese herbs (severe enough that it was completely life changing for me to be cured), and I haven’t really given the nutritional muscle testing a try because money and lack of availability of someone I trust who does it in my area.
What helps me most with inflammation problems is avoiding nightshades (potatos, tomatos, peppers) and identifying and eliminating food allergies from my diet. They help with separate kinds of inflammation for me, and since my skin isn’t super itchy all the time anymore, I’m eating nightshades again. But there’s a whole diet you can read about online that’s an Autoimmune diet that you might want to try. I think it’s like paleo, but worse (or better? lol)
If you’re not taking large quantities of vitamin D and zinc, try it for a little while. It took away my food allergies for a week (or at least made them asymptomatic) and then I overdid it on actual real food and they came right back. :’D
Look into gut health. Recent research shows that the kind of bacteria in our gut can influence a huge variety of health outcomes. I’ve also successfully used a glutamine supplement to help restore the lining of my gut, but it’s hard to say if that would be a problem for you or not (unless you use muscle testing…)
You might want to try taking an antihistimine before breaking a fast and see if that helps with that specifically.
Mikayla Peterson had a very severe autoimmune disease (inflammation, multiple joint replacements in childhood from rheumatoid arthritis, etc) that she was able to get in check with a very strict carnivore diet. (Look up the Lion Diet. I think leafy greens and carbs set her off the most but she basically has a terrible reaction to anything besides ruminant meat, high quality liquor and salt) Based on what your said about the oatmeal it seems like your might not need to be such an intense elimination diet but it does sounds like there is a specific group of something you need to stay away from! Looks like you have a lot of good advice here, hopefully something works out for you because the symptoms sound icky!
Hi there! I’m just learning about inflammation. (In the past I thought it was a buzz word used by people who didn’t really know what they were talking about.) anyway- how do you know it is inflammation specifically?