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Can someone help me figure this out?

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user79533788 · 08/04/2023 05:10

So I've never had any food allergies or anything, always been able to eat different types of food with no issues.

Around 2 years ago I had a really bad allergic reaction to pizza. Vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pains.
I tried garlic pizza bread and had the same reason so no more pizza for me.

I'm up with similar symptoms and the only thing I've eaten in the past 24 hours+ is a shortbread biscuit.

I've figured it's that that my body is reacting to.

However, I can eat everything else with no issue, bread, pasta etc etc.

What could be in pizza dough and biscuits that I'm allergic to that isn't in other wheat products? 🤔

It's baffling me

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TwoGorgeousKids · 08/04/2023 05:28

My husband has exact same issue with pizza. He can eat anything but pizza always gives him bad diarrhoea. It's bizarre

greenspaces4peace · 08/04/2023 05:30

Could it be yeast or semolina?

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user79533788 · 08/04/2023 05:33

TwoGorgeousKids · 08/04/2023 05:28

My husband has exact same issue with pizza. He can eat anything but pizza always gives him bad diarrhoea. It's bizarre

Has he ever had a gluten intolerance test?

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user79533788 · 08/04/2023 05:33

greenspaces4peace · 08/04/2023 05:30

Could it be yeast or semolina?

I'll try to research that thank you

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TwoGorgeousKids · 08/04/2023 05:35

No he's never had any kind of test. He doubt if he is gluten intolerant as he can eat anything else with gluten no problem.

greenspaces4peace · 08/04/2023 05:59

Pizza dough is sometimes made with duram flour which has a different protein.

duvetdissident · 08/04/2023 06:04

Have you got the packet the biscuit came in? It should have an ingredients list.

Lindy2 · 08/04/2023 06:06

Perhaps it's a stomach bug and not food related.

MissSmiley · 08/04/2023 06:33

How long after you eat do the symptoms start? I have coeliac disease and before diagnosis if I ate gluten I would sometimes react like this but not every time I had gluten maybe just once a week, but the symptoms began maybe 6 hours after eating, never straight away

marcopront · 08/04/2023 07:20

My daughter has (possibly had - puberty changed things) an allergy to yeast but it seems to require a build up. Her reaction was morning sneezing. (I was so pleased when I found that on a list of allergy reactions.)

Are you menopausal?
Given my daughter's allergy changes during puberty I believe hormonal changes change allergies.

Buttalapasta · 08/04/2023 07:30

Pizza dough has to rise as it has yeast in it. If this is done too quickly, it can be indigestible. I've had the same reaction sometimes. You could try slow rise pizza. It doesn't explain the biscuit but that might be a coincidence.

Buttalapasta · 08/04/2023 07:32

Btw for me the riskiest pizzas are takeaway pizzas. I never get them now unless I know they slow rise the dough. Frozen seems to be better!

delilabell · 08/04/2023 07:49

Just a thought but could it be gall stones ?

Applesinmyhouse · 08/04/2023 09:27

Honestly it could be gallstones. That’s how it started for me, years of odd one off attacks that i dismissed as ‘indigestion’. Then in pregnancy the attacks got more frequent, twice weekly. I could barely eat anything. I told my midwife whose response was ‘aw bless’ 🤨. I again dismissed it thinking it was acid reflux. But they didn’t go away after pregnancy. And now I have cholecystitis, my gallbladder is buggered, and it needs to come out.

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