Sorry if this is a bit grim but I am confused!

[Ormirian]

Can certain foods give you the shits even though they don't cause you any other symptoms of intolerance?

I love peanut butter. I am not in the slightest allergic to nuts - I eat them all the time. But since I bought a jar of pb a few weeks back I have realised that I get the runs within 30 mins of eating some. I coudln't work out what was causing it before but I had a lightbulb moment this morning! It has to be the pb - there is no other common factor.

Anyone experienced this? Or am I imagining it?

[FoofffyShmoofffer]

Yes!!

From personal experience it's wholemeal bread. I can eat anything with Wheat, Bran , Oats, Seeds you name it but bloody Wholemeal bread has me in pieces.

Terrible pain and 24 hours on the loo.

According to the GP it's just one of those things!

[Ormirian]

Ooh interesting. I went through a phase of that - reacting to any kind of wheat a few years ago. I took myself off wheat for a while but was able to reintroduce it again gradually. I don't eat that much bread now but I do eat pasta - so I don't think it can be wheat again.

[Malificence]

Peanuts have me running to the loo within an hour.
As do onions and occasionally, garlic, especially when I'm premenstrual.

[bagelmonkey]

DH eats peanuts - peanut butter occasionally, roasted/salted nuts, nutty chocolate etc with no problem at all. Last night he refused to eat a monkey nut cos he says they give him the shits. Even though they're the same freaking thing

[flippineck]

Prawns and lettuce do it to me, but not every single time

[annoyingdevil]

broccoli and pakora (from Indian restuarants) give me crippling stomach pains

[Jbck]

Shop bought tiramisu. Proper homemade is okay but they must put something in the chilled desserts that sets me off. A friend gets the same thing too with it.

[Ormirian]

So I am not the only one with the selectively fussy gut.

Bad again this morning though and no peanuts eaten

[mangomousse]

Pork and most red meats and it can take a while to "calm" down again after a bout.

[whomovedmychocolate]

Have you had a recent infection Orm? This can trigger off or cause allergies to recur (clasps recent BBC Science Mag to bosom in show offy fashion).

[bruffin]

I have the same problem with Pork, particularly if it has been frozen. The rest of the family can have the same meal with no problems but I end up on the loo a couple of hours later. It is not evey time either.

[swanker]

mal- a garlic intolerance (and onion is in the same family) can be due to malabsorbtion of sulphur- you need to eat more legumes to counteract this (eg eat french beans with chicken kiev etc) I too have a garlic intolerance! and a hatred of green vegetables

I find sometimes it is the fat content which makes something go through me quickly IYSWIM.

[Malificence]

That's interesting , the only green veggies I eat, are peas!

I can't eat cauliflower or cucumber either.

Yes to high fat stuff too, if I have a mcdonalds burger, that goes straight through me.

Thankfully I can eat copious amounts of chocolate.

[coffeeinbed]

funny, brazil nuts here as well!

[Ormirian]

No recent infection thankfully. my DC have had a vomiting bug but I'v been fine.

Re the fat thing - when my mum's gall bladder was going into meltdown she couldn't deal with fat in any form.

[whomovedmychocolate]

Ha, you could have got a subclinical version of it Orm and not suffered any outward symptoms but still triggered off a t-cell response.

[flibbertigibbert]

Weetabix does this to me. Also, I find that the day after I eat nuts I tend to be a bit more 'loose' than normal. Sorry for tmi