[o_zarkman44]

I also forgot to mention chocolate as having the same substance, but was reminded by another post on this thread.

Strange that I hadn’t heard that the intolerance is possibly genetic from a certain ethnic location, Lapland. Also includes Norway (My heritage). This may be something derived from a study since I was diagnosed. I haven’t done any follow ups since I changed my diet almost 20 years ago, knowing what to avoid.

[mupcat]

That is really interesting, especially the part about ethnic locations. Never would have thought about rice, and your latest reply mentioning chocolate.....now THAT would be horrible for me. So assume you avoid that also?

[muawiyah]

I've known several Chippewa Indians over the years. They all had the rotating sensitivity to chocolate, coffee and tea. First you're allergic to one, so you use the others until you get allergic to one of them, then you go back to the other, and so on. Kind of strange but apparantly the angry t-cells have a limited memory on that one.

Lady I worked with had to change from one to the other every few months.