Recovering from accidental ingestion

[CJSculpts]

I would love to hear tips on what other people do to help recover from accidental ingestion of badness.

I am sure that the natural response that most of you have of purging from both ends (I know sorry, gross) is designed to help the body recover faster. Unfortunately, after so many years of migraines (which were actually probably fructose reactions), my body has rejected the idea of vomiting, etc. no matter how queasy I get. When I thought that it was just a standard migraine, I sometimes used to force myself to purge. Now that I know that it is 100% food related, I have a hard time doing this - good to know that I don't have bulimic tendencies. I realize that I might have to get over this hangup so that I do net get stuck at home for weeks at a time.

Do you find that it helps to "get rid of the bad" as soon as a reaction starts or does it not make a difference?

I chug mint water to try to help settle things. Oddly enough, after this latest episode, the mint water tasted really sweet. Then regular water started tasting sweet. Now I feel as though I am secreting sugar through my salivary glands. I get these random bursts of sweetness.

On New Year's Eve I had some plain white rice for lunch. This seemed to act like a sponge and almost instantly lifted my headache. Unfortunately, the effects were only temporary.

Any other suggestions other than just "sucking it up"??

[colormist]

I usually have severe cravings for random foods: milk, potato chips, really anything my body insists on eating. White rice also fits into this category. I also find it helps if I eat a pixy stix (or twenty) and have some green tea.

[CJSculpts]

: ) I've been eating Smarties like there is no tomorrow. And hehehe I got my bulk order of the Stix from Amazon this week. Also I had a weird potato chip experience. Pre-diet, I generally avoided potato chips unless Adam had them out. The other day I grabbed a couple just to help the hunger while making dinner. I couldn't stop eating them. I felt like Cookie Monster eating cookies. They were particularly oily and I think that the oil helped. People always say to eat greasy foods to help with a hangover. Hmmmm...

[esmee]

I am not a confirmed HFI-er yet, but have all the symptoms and a long history of migraine in response to eating fructose and then allowing my blood sugar to crash before getting safe food to binge on, lol!

Anyways, I have found that umeboshi plums seem to really helps to reduce the intensity of the migraines. I found this out by accident because I ate several when I was in the throws of a bad migraine--my body was seriously craving salt and they were the only thing that felt remotely compatiple at the time. I then googled umeboshi plums and migraine headaches and found this on a Macrobotic site www.macrobiotics.nl/encyclopedia/encyclopedia_tu.html

Umeboshi Relieves Migraine Headaches - A former medical consultant for the Department of National Health and Welfare in Canada successfully treated her own migraine headaches with diet. Dr. Helen V. Farrell reported that she suffered from classical migraines since she was eleven, experiencing scintillating scotomas, dysplasia, transient parasthesias, and vomiting. As she grew older, the headaches were less frequent, and when she discontinued dairy food and exercised regularly they began to disappear altogether. However, in July, 1987, she began to experience a recurrence and decided to treat it with a macrobiotic home remedy.

“By the time I got home twenty minutes later,” she reported, “I could barely see, and the pounding migraine pain was just starting. I headed straight for the pantry and the umeboshi plum paste. I had been reading about this condiment and its ‘contractiveness,’ so I thought I would experiment and see if it worked or not. After about two teaspoons and within two minutes, the visual symptoms disappeared dramatically. I couldn’t believe it!” Every 20 minutes, she continued eating a little more umeboshi and within two hours she “got up, feeling completely normal with no headache, nausea, or tingling.”

Dr. Farrell, who specializes in treating female complaints, has successfully introduced many of her patients to a macrobiotic diet. She reports that it is particularly effective in treating premenstrual syndrome.
Source: H. V. Farrell, “PMS Is Not PMS,” in Doctors Look at Macrobiotics (Tokyo and New York: Japan Publications, 1988), pp. 177-91.


I suspect that the migraines are partially or whole due to systemic acidosis, as fructose is acid-forming in HFI-ers, and the salty umeboshis are very alkalinizining.