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People who are intolerant to milk tend to be a little plump and have light skin, with fat accumulated in the abdominal area (tummy). There's mucus (cold, otitis), skin issues (acne, psoriasis) and an inflamed intestine, too slow (constipation) or too active (colitis). But the worst symptom is the intense and relentless fatigue due to chronic inflammation, which steals energy from the entire body.
The situation becomes complicated when someone is also hypersensitive to natural salicylates, which are present in many foods – especially fruit and vegetables - not to mention artificial compounds such as aspirin. Here, too, the signs of intolerance are quite visible. A person bleeds easily (a typical effect of aspirin), has swollen turbinates (thus there are respiratory difficulties), immediate or chronic itching, heavy breathing (asthma) and, strangely enough, analgesics act in the opposite way as how they are intended.
A person with these intolerances has itching (urticaria), milk induced dermatitis, bleeding gums and mucosa, and often suffers from tenacious or recurring candidiasis. There's the classic headache related to malabsorption, and if this person takes a pain killer, he feels worse. What's more, he's desperately tired, every effort is fatiguing, his turbinates are swollen and there's a lot of mucus - so he blows his nose repeatedly and sleeps poorly - and he often has troubles breathing (asthma).
What does “avoiding milk and salicylates” mean?
For a person who is intolerant, avoiding milk (on diet days) means avoiding all milk of animal origin (cow, goat, sheep, skimmed, pre-digested...) and all related products such as yogurt, whey, cheese, butter, cream and ice cream. Since many manufactured products contain milk, you need to pay careful attention.
Salicylates, on the other hand, are naturally present in many foods and are therefore not to be eliminated: it's enough to keep them under control, following your doctor's directions about “limits”. In other words, it's sufficient to keep an eye on your daily intake of salicylates selecting the right foods to eat: it's not so difficult to pick a fig instead of a raspberry. It's also possible to effectively supplement your diet with low dose hyposensitizing vaccines which facilitate an easier contact with foods that contain salicylates.
How can a person manage the milk and salicylates diet?
As seen above, keep salicylates under control is not a big deal. No milk on diet days - however - really means no milk. This implies that you must take a careful look to ingredient labels of prepared foods, and also avoid hidden dairy products such as whey, lactalbumin, lactoglobulin, casein, lactose, milk proteins (from cow, goat, etc.). It seems complicated, but you'll soon get used to it and after the first few days, you'll know what's ok and what's not.
Milk as such (for example in milk shakes or for morning breakfast) is easy to substitute with vegetable “milks”: rice, soy, chestnut, oats. Try different ones to find out which one you like the best; some can even be found already in the form of yogurt or ice cream.
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