What am I intolerant of?

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I seem to have developed an intolerance to something and I'm trying to figure out what. Tingly, sore back of throat feeling, bloating, rash on face and stomach cramps.
I've never had anything like this before. Desisted from flour/gluten today, but just had a bowl of chocolate ice-cream and that has given me horrible cramps. So could it be dairy?

I wonder if you could have a bug? Having a tummy bug could cause temporary lactose intolerance.

The tingling/rash does sound like an allergy - have you had any common allergens like nuts or shellfish?

How do you take the ingredients of the ice cream? Some don't even have any dairy in them. The standard way of finding out if you have any food intolerances is to spend a few days eating nothing but plain meat and eggs as nobody in the world has ever been known to be allergic to meat.

Thanks, I did wonder if it was an extension of COVID which I had last week, but the tingly throat thing has been going on for longer. I think had it been nuts it would have been easier to tell as I would only eat them once in a while, but this is quite continuous which makes me think it's something I'm eating regularly.

I was hoping to do a slightly easier version of cutting out one thing at a time, starting with wheat and then dairy, but if that doesn't resolve it I'll do as you suggested, thank you!

Meat allergy and intolerances are definitely a thing. My kid doesn't tolerate pork or beef.

OP keep a food diary and see if you can work out a pattern.

Most ice cream is none dairy. DH has a lactose intolerance, cramps,pain, diarrhea, lactose free milk. No problem with ice cream. Covid would explain the gut problem, but tingling throat....my DGD gets that after eating Strawberry so now avoids and my ds after eating apples. Did you have a really sore throat with COVID?

Most ice cream definitely isn't dairy free! DS feels sick/throws up if he has too much milk but can tolerate it in other forms ie yoghurt, cheese, icecream - it doesn't mean all those things are dairy free! They are just lower lactose.

The problem is you can be intolerant to just about anything OP, onion and garlic are my big two and are top of the fodmaps list of things most likely to cause intolerance. It might also just be a temporary intolerance due to illness - maybe check out low fodmap foods and stick to those for a bit as much as possible. I also have some 'all round' enzymes from Holland and Barrett I take if I know I'm having something that I'm intolerant to.

Try keeping a diary of food and symptoms so you can work out what it relates to. My son gets the tingling throat symptom with stone fruit (peaches, cherries etc.) If you are worried you can ask for hospital allergy testing. I recently went down this route for antibiotic allergy and people were in the unit being tested for e.g. nut allergy. The waiting list was long though, about 6 months