Noticed a pattern: Starchy Carbs --> Sore Throat

[empanda]

Just wanting to know if anyone has run into the same kind of thing and how they've dealt with it.

I've been essentially zero carb for about a year and a half. Recently, I've decided to loosen up a bit. When I'm preparing food for myself, zero carb. When I go out with friends, I'll have a few bites of the rice that's included.

Earlier today, I was out with my boyfriend and we stumbled into a Japanese restaurant. We got the "Hamburg Set" that came with a bowl of rice. I ate about half (160 grams) and a few hours later, my throat became sore.

Normally I would make much of it, but this isn't the first time this has happened. Earlier in the week I was experimenting with rice flour combinations for cookies (and in that instance, avoiding carbs was unavoidable . . . and delicious) and woke up with a sore throat the next day that gradually went away after 16 hours or so.

So, anyone else reintroduce starchy carbs into their diet and get cold/flu like symptoms??

[tragedian]

I haven't noticed that particular symptom, but it wouldn't surprise me because I've noticed the following pattern;

Carbs--->almost everything that's ever been 'wrong' with me.

[Nancy LC]

Maybe you've got an intolerance to rice in particular?

[Solidadund]

Sounds like an allergy to starchy carbs. I would just stay away from them.

[nocarbkat]

Sounds like an allergy to me. I had a friend of mine that would eat all kinds of things and felt bad all the time, until she went to an allergy specialist and discovered all these allergies!

[tragedian]

Maybe, just for experimentations sake, you could take a benadryl. If the sore throat goes away; allergy!

[Amanda1978]

You can have bad reactions to rice without an actual allergy. I followed the recommended baby feeding schedule for my babies. My two oldest did great and could eat everything but my youngest had a horrible reaction to a number of foods starting with her first bite of rice. She got a red blotchy hive like rash around her mouth within minutes of her first taste of rice cereal and it spread to the rest of her face, neck and in her hair within another 10 minutes. I promptly gave her Benadryl, she rubbed her itchy little face like crazy until she fell asleep, then about 30 minutes after falling asleep she woke up and vomited profusely, then was fine. That was with less than 1/3 of a little baby spoon. Doctors said it couldn't be an allergy since an allergy develops after at least one exposure to something. We tried once more and it happened again so the doctor and us decided to avoid it until she was old enough to be tested. (Allergies come and go easily before 2 years of age.) She reacted like this with even 1 little piece of rice until she was over 18 months old. She also reacted like this to rye, barley and cows milk. (No rash with milk but she'd sure throw up, but she could drink Nestlé Goodstart Formula which is made of cows milk but some of the proteins are already broken down.)

Anyway they tested her a few months before she turned two and everything was negative. I waited about another 6 months after that before slowly introducing these foods again. General consensus about the milk among the specialists and family doctor is that her digestive system took longer to mature. The other reactions had some other name for it, basically an immune system response but not a true allergy.

I still don't purposely give her rice, rye and barley but I know that we can at least eat at a restaurant without bringing our own food for her and she can participate in school lunches, birthday parties, etc. without worry too.

So, I put rice on the as bad for you as wheat list. Try other carbs instead of rice based foods to see how you react.