Why can I suddenly not eat onions?

[Mutzadell]

I love onions and always have. I adore this time of year as we can make French onion soup.

About a month ago, we made a roast with some braised leeks. I was cooking so was eating the leeks throughout (greedy!) and then we had a roast dinner and around 2 hours later I had the most incredible urgent diarrhoea that lasted the rest of the day. I put it down to a bug and didn't think about it.

Then a week later I went out for lunch with a friend and had french onion soup to start and 2 hours later the same thing happened. I still hadn't put 2 and 2 together but last week I was chopping onions and ate a small bit of it and the same thing happened a few hours later and I now realise it is onions fgs!

I decided to test it yesterday when we had a roast with the leeks again - and let's just say today I'm slightly worse for wear!

Does anyone else have this? Can you make it go away? Onions are a bigger part of my life than I imagined!

I had this suddenly happen, couldn't eat leeks, garlic or onions! Especially raw - horrendous.

I cut them all out for a long period of time (about a year) and slowly introduced back into cooking, and now I can tolerate them again (cooked, not raw). Worked on my gut health in the meantime. Could definitely not go through the rest of life not eating onions!!

thanks! isn't it a bizarre thing! I have some probiotics that I have been taking but I'm not sure they are doing anything. I will have to keep trying. I'm very glad they came back to you - I can't imagine removing onions from everything we cook.

This happened to me but I had terrible stomach cramps. I still can't eat raw onions but can have cooked now.

I've lifted and copied this list from a website, which contains a lot of the things I used to build gut health:

• Kefir
• Plain Yogurt
• Dry Curd Cottage Cheese or Farmer’s Cheese, or fermented cottage cheese
• Certain aged cheeses (check label for live and active cultures)
• Fermented Vegetables
• Tempeh (choose gluten free)
• Miso (refrigerated)
• Pickles (in salt, not vinegar)
• Sauerkraut (choose refrigerated)
• Kimchi
• Kombucha (no sugar)
• Other probiotic drinks (no sugar), like beet Kvass, apple cider

Hope it helps!

Thanks so much. I love an aged cheese so that's great news 😂