Flushing and lightheadedness

[tummyache]

Pre-diagnosis did anyone else have flushing, sweating and lightheadedness a few minutes after consuming a small piece of candy? Just curious.

[colormist]

LOL, Fred.

Yep, those are the first signs of hypoglycemia. The next signs are a ravenous appetite and sleepiness.

I blame hypoglycemia as my primary cause of weight gain.

[Magda]

Wow i have just been having this this weekend. I accidently ingested Isomalt in a large quantity. Then, because I gave up so much sugar, I made the mistake of dousing all my water with lime juice (a total of a bottle of lime juice concentrate over the weekend). Now I am going through this exact reaction.

I feel like a crazy person!

[urmensch]

I wouldn't trust anything in a bottle. I use *fresh* limes
with some dextrose.

[ukbill]

Mmm I feel I should add a warning.

Adding Dextrose to counter the Fructose content will allow you to eat something which has too much Fructose in it for normal consumption.. however the dextrose burns off quicker than the Fructose so can cause a substantial "falling of the edge of a cliff" type hypo and also the Fructose will still be causing problems for your liver and kidneys.

I assume you are adding Dextrose to counter the "sour" taste of the Lime Juice?

This is not needed. It is easy when you cut out ALL sugars to get used to eating the stuff neat I can eat limes and Lemons along with Rhubarb both raw and cooked without any added sweeteners.. its all a mater of acclimatisation.

I have to admit I find Limes far too sweet to eat more than a little of one.

[urmensch]

Maybe limes in the UK are sweeter than here? Limes and avocados are my safe zero fructose fruits.
At least some databases agree.

Fructose varies with the particular variety, how ripe it is, how much
fertilizer and water and sunshine. Looking in a table doesn't really guarantee anything, and
answers can vary in different parts of the world.

OTOH I can't find anything in a bottle that doesn't have added sugar.

[nicoleh]

urmensch I think it does vary by country. for instance eggs seem to be totally fine for DD, and our database here agrees they're fructose free. but the USDA database says eggs have 50mg fructose and the Americans seem to react to eggs.

I used to think avocados were fructose free. but then DD definitely started reacting badly to avocados, sadly, and I checked the database here - not ok.

but then again her tolerance - or should I say INtolerance - 9mg - ain't much.

[ukbill]

IO always react badly to avocados too.

Colormist also had a bad experience with a different variety (to what she usually gets) recently so they have to be on the avoid if not known to be safe list..

There are varieties of Lemon in the UK that are too sweet also however all Limes in the UK seem too sweet for me. I am ok with say 1/2 a lime worth of juice in a meal.. but I can usually get away with a whole lemon Juice without any problems at all. (however I recently went overboard because I had some lemons that needed eating up and used 2 lemons and that was far too much for me. )

This is one of the main reasons I am very strong on the NO sweeteners or Sugars for HFI children.

There are too many variables in our diet to be safe unless we can detect the sweetness ourselves and reject the food that harms us.

If we are given sugars and sweeteners by our well meaning parents it removes our ability to detect these low levels and self protect ourselves.

So although it is easier to comply to a child's (and parents) wishes to have "normal sweets" like other children, it is just wrong for the long term health of the adult the child will grow into.

So Hard love has to prevail I'm afraid if you want your child to grow into a fully healthy independent, confident adult.

[ukbill]

I think it depends on the food the hens are given.

If the hen food is high in sugars as apposed to starches in the form of grains (as it should be) then yes eggs may well contain more Fructose.

Usually cheaper poultry food will uses use sugars and stuff like that instead of using grain and other starches because its cheaper!

Believe it or not because poultry manure is very high in Nitrogen less scrupulous animal feed manufactures will add sterilized poultry manure in animal feeds because it makes the Protein level of the feed appear higher!

When food is analysed the amount of Nitrogen is used to calculate the amount of protein in foods so dodgy companies add nitrogen compounds to make the analysis look better.

[nicoleh]

I have suspected that the food the chickens were fed made all the difference to their egg fructose content. Here in Australia at one point farmers were being sold WASTE CONFECTIONARY to feed to DAIRY COWS! oh my goodness. there was a bit of outrage about that, but I think the farmers in Victoria are still doing it. I would suspect that milk could cause problems for an HFIer.

so glad we part-own our cow and she lives on pure green grass.

I also get our eggs, when I can, from friends who feed them table scraps and only a little grain-based feed. I know they'll be getting fruit but that is quite natural. I think it's only when you overwhelm their own systems with sugar and rubbish that it would go into the egg. That's my theory anyway!

[ukbill]

That is very common.

If not feeding the cows the waste confectionery directly it is bought by the cattle feed compounders and used in their formulations all the time.

So are very many other waste products from the food industry.. very little is ever wasted!

Pigs get fed out of date cheese and milk products for example.

Cows also get fed orange and citrus waste from the of Juice extraction processors.

A very good feed for them is the waste from Sugar beet factories (it is still over 8% sugar) and "spent grains from the beer brewing industry (assuming they are making real beer from Barley not chemical beer from Maize that is)

This is why eating Organic meat is far safer for an HFI person because none of this is allowed under the organic food system.

Unfortunately its also very much more expensive.