#corn allergy

[christopher575]

Someone I know has a severe corn allergy, which makes modern life pretty challenging since it's a subsidized crop that's found in just about everything. Here's a resource he created that I'm sharing just in case anyone here can benefit from it.

[darcieshateusernames]

Sometimes I forget to make more vanilla extract and need to make some emergency style. It comes out a little cloudy, but it’s better than waiting a few weeks!

All the vanilla extract posts reminded me about this and how I need to buy some vodka (and not drink it) to make extract again.

[ratwitchworld]

its really cool how capitalism has made it impossible to find the ingredients in fast food and they have decided that dairy, gluten, and nuts are the only allergens that exist

[no-slice-of-serendipity]

corn allergy vent post! because I am losing my mind!

I am so sick of everything containing corn. and I know it's considerably less than if I was living in places like the US but it's still so fucking stupid

I can't have any of the 'normal' or at least popular brands of soda or really anything carbonated because of the preservatives they put in it, I can't have any of the milk replacements (UNLESS they don't call them milk) because the B12 in them is GROWN ON CORN, I can't have FUCKING TEABAGS. BECAUSE THEY'RE MADE OF CORN NOW.

I am genuinely running out of things to eat, especially with my other allergies on top of the corn one and I am so fucking sick of it

[emilyart-mixedmedia]

I had a serious allergic reaction this week causing a disconnect in relationship to my whole self. I feel a little broken but mostly defeated; although I promised myself there is light in sight.

There is no question I use my artistic expression to lower my stress levels as it is cathartic and pretty dang reliable for me to do so. This week, however, proved difficult for me to tap that resource. My eyes can’t move without making me dizzy and I can’t allow them to zero in on details as it is too much work for them. So what did I do when my hands wanted to create but my eyes couldn’t? I did some shitty art.

Now the photo above isn’t what I started with. It used to be filled with rigid unconnected squiggles and Z’s. Just something to get the marker to the paper. That’s all I wanted and I thought maybe it wouldn’t hurt me like a real piece would. But of course it ended in immediate fatigue and a headache, making me vow to attempt post heal instead of during healing. Unfortunate to me, I also had this fire to ensure this page didn’t go to waste with just a shit ton of nothing. So I let it sit for a few days while I binged The Magicians and ate shitty Thai food. And then I grabbed it and got to work tonight.

I’m not certain if this is done and that doesn’t really matter but it was helpful to finally get something out. I doubt I’ll be able to do more tomorrow since I’ll have a whole day ahead of me but at least I started. And that is really all that counts right now.

[shayweasel]

It gets worse but you handle it better.

Life is weird and I’m ok with that. I think so anyway…. I have a habit of not wanting to say things are bad. It’s a good habit to have but not always a helpful one. It’s not like I deny that things are happening it’s that I don’t want to bother people with things. I think sometimes I’m doing great! I’m stable and then my body decides that it doesn’t like that and I trip and fall and leave a…

[ephestian-edapha]

this is a list of things I have recently found out I can't have (eat/use/touch) because they have corn in (mostly via having a reaction to them and looking up the obscure ingredients): (mostly uk specific)

store bought milk alternatives (yes, all of them)

popular sodas (pepsi, coke, dr pepper, etc)

pringles

hair gel

the plastic they put birthday cards in

teabags.

stock cubes

cider

store bought chips (fries)

makeup remover

syrup

soap

PAINKILLERS

[3liza]

[anistarrose]

I was going to wait to talk about this until Disability Pride Month, and instead will probably just talk about it a second time then, because food allergies are extremely underrecognized as a disability. But did you know that if you live in the US and have a sufficiently severe corn allergy, you can't safely be prescribed about 95% percent of pills because they all have fucking cornstarch in them as a binding agent? And the corn-free alternatives obviously cost more — if they even exist at all?

I'm just saying, there's an entirely unique emotion that over 99% of humans have never even felt. And it's called "realizing that you're allergic to your own lifelong allergy medication."

[strengthandsunshine]

Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad combines your favorite potato chip flavor and potluck side dish! Made with tangy homemade vegan sour cream, tons of savory oniony flavor, and soft tender potatoes, you can skip the potato chips and enjoy this classic combination in one delicious forkful! Healthy, gluten-free, and allergy-free, this easy potato salad recipe will be a hit at every party!

Vegan Sour Cream & Onion Potato Salad https://wp.me/p4UrDz-9gu

[freebooter4ever]

One thing i am learning:

so leading up to this from the end of my stomach virus on July 1st till July 27th I was having huge gas issues with my stomach. Lots of bloating, lots of farts, just so much fun. But then around July 25 the farts slowly stopped happening but thats when instead the gas seemed to be getting trapped in my gut and just not coming out. And i suspect that's what was triggering the panic, heartrate, breathlessness, etc. So after this last monday while with my friends my goal was to get the farts to come back, which probably sounds insane but keep in mind my brain has not been fully functional lately. So on wednesday, the best day this week and when i felt the most normal, oxygen levels back to 99, when i took the probiotic and experienced the most farts/gas/etc i thought that was what i was now aiming for.

But the interesting thing now is that after completely overhauling my died and only eating bland foods / high fiber foods / vegetables, both friday and this morning i have not had much gas at all....but i also am not having that intense difficulty breathing reaction despite eating more calories than i have in days. Tldr i think a combination of being on the probiotics plus eating foods that are easy to digest has stopped the bloating rather than just let me fart more to release the bloating. So i guess thats my new goal: to get to a base stable point where im eating a healthy bloat free diet. And not feeling like im starving all the time. Yay.

Ngl im gonna really fucking miss my terrible eating habits but i think i knew that one day they would come to bite me in the ass. Im hoping eventually i will be able to eat things like pasta and cheese and stuff again, but thanks to that terrible virus i had i think i have to be extra careful with my gut now. Ethan kindly spent like an hour of his lunch break talking to me on friday and that was one of the things he joked about - that as sad as it is at some point in the aging process our bodies change and cant handle stuff we used to. He's been helping me out with easy food to start introducing into my diet thats significantly healthier than like...pasta...and cheese. (ethan also had some scary health issues related to oxygen levels and has an aunt who is a doctor so he was able to put my mind at ease a lot about what's been happening, and make me feel less insane)

[sleevesareforlosers]

"american food is so full of corn because we have a lot of it" is not a neutral fact lol

do like thirty seconds of research about WHY theres a lot of it. why is its price so artificially deflated compared to other staple grains why is it grown in SUCH high quantities (and as a monocrop) why is it put into literally 95 percent of food products even ones that dont necessarily require or benefit from the addition of a corn product. yes a lot of criticism of american food culture is based in classism, fatphobia, racism, ableism but discussing the overprevalance of what is an actively disguised allergen with minimal nutritional value is like not the same at all

[ratwitchworld]

having a terrible digestive time even BRAT foods are irritating my intestines it’s either bc i got corn’ed or a moldy cherry incident but either way im realizing that the only way forward is to cook all my own food it’s not fair!!! why do i have to be perfect to feel okay

genuinely feel so held back right now i’m trying out being sober for my stomach and it just feels like i’ll be alone forever like hiii i don’t drink or smoke and i can’t really eat out :) i throw up a lot and sometimes after too much activity my hands stop working :) i know that those things don’t have anything to do with who i am as a person but upfront it does give no fun

[givehimthemedicine]

elmax twoshot - Max in the hospital struggling to cope with blindness and secret feelings. part 2/2

"Knights can only tell the truth," El says. "They have to do an oath to the queen to say so. An oath is like a big promise, Will says. I thought.. I could do that. If you chose me. You could be the queen, and I could be like.. your knight."

Max half seriously worries that her heart monitor is triggering an alarm somewhere.

[thrilling-oneway]

Last reblog that's the state of the tvtropes edit war that I keep mentioning

[habitual-creatures]

I freakin’ hate corn dogs ugh yuck

But seriously who is putting Mystery Guest through such torture of the hotdog water

Corn dogs are great! >:[

Apparently, their friends...