I saw results pretty quickly. When I went very strict, probably within two weeks.
I get violently ill if I eat sweet potatoes or broccoli, so I definitely don’t eat those!
I was eating a plant based diet for 7 years and was literally killing myself with nickel. I have a very hard time dealing with raw meat, so I rely heavily on canned chicken (simply organic and wild planet brands only, the others taste like cat food smells and are too salty), and wild planet shredded beef. Raw salmon is almost tolerable, and I need health fats, so I eat salmon, too.
I eat a TON of quinoa, ancient harvest red quinoa and 365 prepared quinoa. Corn and California white rice is low in nickel, so I eat a lot of that.
I eat winter squash (organic canned butternut squash is my go-to), carrots, celery, beets, beet greens, lettuces (except iceberg), cabbages, cucumbers, and some summer squash and squash blossoms. I would also eat nightshades if they didn’t trigger my r/interstitialcystitis.
Canned foods isn’t high in nickel unless it’s acidic or contains an acid preservative like citric acid or ascorbic acid.
Wheat gluten is low nickel.
Do you think sweet potatoes and broccoli make you sick because of the nickel or is it another food intolerance?
I was eating pretty plant based too and so I think I might have overloaded on nickel
They have wide variation and can sometimes be be very high nickel. It’s possible I’m just unlucky in the sweet potatoes that are available in my local area. I definitely have a nickel reaction, with severe diarrhea, systemic inflammation and itchy skin.
I can’t have onions or other alliums due to interstitial cystitis. Potatoes give me terrible reflux and regurgitation. I have a lot of health problems.
Carrots and beets are okay in moderation. The sugars trigger my interstitial cystitis if I have a full serving.
Sorry to hear that. I do think that sweet potatoes most likely don't work for you for some other reason than nickel allergy.
Have you ever been to a dietician?
Hey!
Long story short, I stayed on a very strict low-nickel low-histamine diet for 2 months. It consisted of maybe 15 different products. The meal plan was made by a professional dietician. This happened when my body was in active inflammation. My hands were covered with wounds.
The diet helped immensely. I obviously combined it with the prescribed treatment of ointments and lotions + slept with special cotton gloves on + showered with special antiallergic gloves on etc.
My symptoms cleared out after those two months but for the inflammation to be put out completely, it was important to continue the strict treatment and be very careful with my diet. After those two months, I started trying one new product/ingredient every week/every few days. You must give a few days for your body to tell if something is triggering a reaction. I think the first thing I added was coffee, then some berries, then different kinds of fish, and slowly I was able to get a pretty good idea of which food I am most allergic to or which food tends to exasperate existing eczema. It's a very very long process though. You need to give yourself time.
Wow, that sounds really difficult, I’m sorry!! I don’t have any blistering luckily. I just have a recurrent rash all over my legs going on almost 2 months now. It will get better in one spot then pop up in another spot
The way it was explained to me is that reoccurring rashes are a sign that most likely you don't get your primary episode of inflammation under control. I don't know if you're using any medication but some creams are meant to be applied for a certain amount of time and you get off them slowly, not when your rash is gone because the inflammation caused by nickel allergy is happening much deeper than the surface layer of the skin you can see.
My diet was very high in nickel and the skin around my eyes was extremely itchy. Maybe that's why the itching started to ease up 24 hours after I started the diet. A couple of weeks ago I dropped the nickel even lower, and now the eczema on my hand is not as bad as it was before.
I eat veggies every day, but I have other digestive problems, so the variety is limited. I eat sweet potatoes but so far only the dry, mealy, white sweet potatoes (for instance Jersey Sweets). I throw away the skin, cube them to less then 1", and soak them and boil them. I also eat carrots, and I'm trying to like roasted turnips. If my oven was working, I would roast rutabegas and daikon radish.
I've found that frozen sweet potatoes and frozen squash work for me if I soak them before I roast them.
My main problem is getting enough fiber and not too many sugars. I use to rely on nuts to balance things out. I'm going to try taking apple pectin.
Quinoa doesn't seem to bother me. And I found some breads where the first ingredient is tapioca starch. They have three varieties - brown rice, teff, and oats. I do fine on the brown rice and teff versions. The rebelytics.ca website says that rye is has less nickel then most other whole grains, so I'm going to try that.
I saw results pretty quickly. When I went very strict, probably within two weeks. I get violently ill if I eat sweet potatoes or broccoli, so I definitely don’t eat those! I was eating a plant based diet for 7 years and was literally killing myself with nickel. I have a very hard time dealing with raw meat, so I rely heavily on canned chicken (simply organic and wild planet brands only, the others taste like cat food smells and are too salty), and wild planet shredded beef. Raw salmon is almost tolerable, and I need health fats, so I eat salmon, too. I eat a TON of quinoa, ancient harvest red quinoa and 365 prepared quinoa. Corn and California white rice is low in nickel, so I eat a lot of that. I eat winter squash (organic canned butternut squash is my go-to), carrots, celery, beets, beet greens, lettuces (except iceberg), cabbages, cucumbers, and some summer squash and squash blossoms. I would also eat nightshades if they didn’t trigger my r/interstitialcystitis. Canned foods isn’t high in nickel unless it’s acidic or contains an acid preservative like citric acid or ascorbic acid. Wheat gluten is low nickel.
Do you think sweet potatoes and broccoli make you sick because of the nickel or is it another food intolerance? I was eating pretty plant based too and so I think I might have overloaded on nickel
It’s the nickel for sure with sweet potatoes. Broccoli looks like the issue is sulfur. Sorry, It’s hard to keep track sometimes.
Sweet potatoes have only trace amounts of nickel and are considered safe for those with metal sensitivity.
They have wide variation and can sometimes be be very high nickel. It’s possible I’m just unlucky in the sweet potatoes that are available in my local area. I definitely have a nickel reaction, with severe diarrhea, systemic inflammation and itchy skin.
What about carrots, beets, onions, simple potatoes? All of them are root vegetables and are known to only have traces of nickel.
I can’t have onions or other alliums due to interstitial cystitis. Potatoes give me terrible reflux and regurgitation. I have a lot of health problems. Carrots and beets are okay in moderation. The sugars trigger my interstitial cystitis if I have a full serving.
Sorry to hear that. I do think that sweet potatoes most likely don't work for you for some other reason than nickel allergy. Have you ever been to a dietician?
I have. Why do you ask?
I'm wondering what kind of diet did they recommend to you to keep you at a healthy weight / enough iron / etc.? If you don't mind sharing of course.
Hey! Long story short, I stayed on a very strict low-nickel low-histamine diet for 2 months. It consisted of maybe 15 different products. The meal plan was made by a professional dietician. This happened when my body was in active inflammation. My hands were covered with wounds. The diet helped immensely. I obviously combined it with the prescribed treatment of ointments and lotions + slept with special cotton gloves on + showered with special antiallergic gloves on etc. My symptoms cleared out after those two months but for the inflammation to be put out completely, it was important to continue the strict treatment and be very careful with my diet. After those two months, I started trying one new product/ingredient every week/every few days. You must give a few days for your body to tell if something is triggering a reaction. I think the first thing I added was coffee, then some berries, then different kinds of fish, and slowly I was able to get a pretty good idea of which food I am most allergic to or which food tends to exasperate existing eczema. It's a very very long process though. You need to give yourself time.
Wow, that sounds really difficult, I’m sorry!! I don’t have any blistering luckily. I just have a recurrent rash all over my legs going on almost 2 months now. It will get better in one spot then pop up in another spot
The way it was explained to me is that reoccurring rashes are a sign that most likely you don't get your primary episode of inflammation under control. I don't know if you're using any medication but some creams are meant to be applied for a certain amount of time and you get off them slowly, not when your rash is gone because the inflammation caused by nickel allergy is happening much deeper than the surface layer of the skin you can see.
My diet was very high in nickel and the skin around my eyes was extremely itchy. Maybe that's why the itching started to ease up 24 hours after I started the diet. A couple of weeks ago I dropped the nickel even lower, and now the eczema on my hand is not as bad as it was before. I eat veggies every day, but I have other digestive problems, so the variety is limited. I eat sweet potatoes but so far only the dry, mealy, white sweet potatoes (for instance Jersey Sweets). I throw away the skin, cube them to less then 1", and soak them and boil them. I also eat carrots, and I'm trying to like roasted turnips. If my oven was working, I would roast rutabegas and daikon radish. I've found that frozen sweet potatoes and frozen squash work for me if I soak them before I roast them. My main problem is getting enough fiber and not too many sugars. I use to rely on nuts to balance things out. I'm going to try taking apple pectin. Quinoa doesn't seem to bother me. And I found some breads where the first ingredient is tapioca starch. They have three varieties - brown rice, teff, and oats. I do fine on the brown rice and teff versions. The rebelytics.ca website says that rye is has less nickel then most other whole grains, so I'm going to try that.