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Pork Sensitivity | Signs & Symptoms
Pork, the other white meat, is America’s third favorite meat-especially when you factor in bacon. Whether in a club sandwich, on the side of a sunny-side up egg, or simply as a snack, Americans love some bacon. But it doesn’t always sit right. Could it be due to a food intolerance or sensitivity to pork?
What is pork sensitivity?
A food intolerance or sensitivity occurs when your digestive system reacts adversely after eating a certain food-in this case, pork. While food allergies and food sensitivities are rare for meat – including chicken, beef, and lamb- it is possible. Meat proteins can trigger IgG sensitivities which can be picked up through a food sensitivity test.
Pork allergy symptoms can be similar to that of pork sensitivity, so it can sometimes be difficult to determine whether the reaction to pork is one over the other, making testing all the more important to understanding your gut.
Another note that there is evidence of a tie between those that have a cat allergy also experience symptoms when eating pork in what is called pork-cat syndrome.
In those cases, the body’s allergic antibodies can cross-react to both cat albumin and pork albumin. In all cases of a food allergy, these are tied to your IgE immune system reacting to certain factors making it more serious and lifelong. It’s necessary to see a doctor or allergy specialist to determine if this is affecting you.
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Pork Sensitivity Symptoms
Pork sensitivity symptoms may not be as severe or life-threatening as a pork allergy, but they can be very uncomfortable as it affects your digestive system and can cause other symptoms as well.
Pork sensitivity may present itself in the following ways:
Abdominal Pain
Bloating
Nausea
Diarrhea
Fatigue
Skin problems
Headaches
Low mood
Some of the symptoms above can also be present if pork is not prepared properly and thus causing food poisoning rather than a food sensitivity.
It’s very important to ensure you’re eating well-cooked pork meat for this reason. Food intolerance or sensitivity symptoms, on the other hand, will occur more often than a one-off, so it’s a good idea to keep a food diary to help keep track of when your body reacts poorly to certain foods and to determine whether a food sensitivity test is necessary to understand your digestive issues.
Testing for Pork Sensitivity
In order to find out whether your symptoms are indeed tied to a pork sensitivity, we recommend taking a food sensitivity test to determine whether a sensitivity to pork is to blame and whether there are other ingredients that are also affecting you at meal times. At YorkTest, we analyze your IgG antibodies 1-4 through a finger prick blood sample, one of the most accurate methods of testing available.
The blood test can identify over 200 ingredients to which you may have food sensitivities and their severity in an easy-to-understand traffic light system.
Once you have your results, our team can help guide you to understand your food sensitivities, as well as advise on how to interpret your results in your everyday diet, and make your food elimination diet journey easier. For more in-depth assistance and advice, we recommend booking a consultation with one of our highly qualified nutritional therapists.
How long will a pork sensitivity last?
Pork sensitivities are not necessarily lifelong. Through careful elimination diets, you may be able to reintroduce pork into your regular diet with time. An allergy, on the other hand, can never be overcome and in some severe cases, can induce life-threatening reactions. For allergy we always recommend seeking professional medical advice to make sure your body is getting the nutrition it needs.
Foods to avoid with a pork sensitivity
Staying away from pork products isn’t always as easy as eliminating the meat. There are other items to avoid until your symptoms subside that you may not have thought of previously as they may contain animal fats.
That’s why it’s always important to read through food labels.
Some foods to avoid include:
- Bacon
- Jello
- Gravy
- Marshmallows
- Chips
- Fruit snacks
- Canned biscuits
- Gelatin
- Pre-made pie shells
- Deli meat
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Headaches After Eating: Causes and Treatments
Overview
If you’ve ever noticed that your head hurts after you eat, you’re not alone. This is called a postprandial headache — postprandial meaning “after eating.”
If this type of headache occurs on a regular basis, you shouldn’t ignore it. While some headaches may be caused or triggered by certain types of foods, some are symptoms of underlying conditions that require medical attention. Keep reading to learn what might be causing your post-meal headache.
Headaches after eating occur with a variety of pain levels and have several possible causes.
Some people notice that their post-food headaches are especially bad after eating certain foods, or consuming sweets or carbs. Still, others notice a pattern of headaches after every meal.
There are several possible reason for these headaches. Here’s some of the most common:
Postprandial hypoglycemia
Also called reactive hypoglycemia, this condition is characterized by a headache within 4 hours after eating. It’s triggered by a drop in blood sugar levels. Some causes include:
- diabetes
- digestive tumors
- abnormal hormone levels
Food allergy
You may believe that an allergy always carries symptoms similar to allergic rhinitis — such as sneezing or a runny nose — but that’s not always the case. In fact, food allergies can cause a host of reactions, including headaches.
If you’re experiencing headaches after eating a specific food or ingredient, it’s possible that you may be allergic to a food and be unaware of the allergy.
Food intolerance
Different than a food allergy, the symptoms of a food intolerance are almost always digestive in nature. However, in some instances, they can trigger a headache after eating.
TMJ disorders
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the joint that connects your lower jaw (the mandible) to the portion of your skull (the temporal bone) in front of your ear.
TMJ disorders are generally characterized by a popping or clicking sound, or a tight feeling on either side of your jaw when opening and closing your mouth. Because the affected joint is so closely tied to your head area, chewing can also trigger pain and cause a headache.
Cold stimulus
This type of headache is commonly known as a brain freeze or “ice cream headache.” It occurs after eating or drinking something frozen or very cold.
Experts believe it happens due to changes in the blood vessels around certain nerves, in response to cold temperature.
This type of headache can be intense, lasting seconds to minutes, but doesn’t require any treatment.
If you experience headaches after eating, see your doctor. It’s important to detect and treat conditions like abnormal blood sugar, TMJ disorder, or food allergies and intolerances, if they’re what’s causing your headaches.
Fortunately, many headaches after eating can be treated easily.
Foods that can give you a headache Other factors, such as loud noises, can aggravate the situation, but 90% of people on the planet are not even aware of one of them.
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These are foods and drinks that, through the chemical components they contain, can regulate the secretion of hormones or in other ways affect our well-being. Of course, everything here is very individual, because the susceptibility to the same food in different people is not the same.
In case, here is a list of 6 foods to avoid if migraines and headaches are too frequent guests in your body.
– Aged Cheeses –
Cheeses such as cheddar, camembert, blue and swiss, although very seductive looking, are too oversaturated with the amino acid tyramine. In most cases, the body does not have any problems processing tyramine, but with a deficiency of the enzyme responsible for breaking it down, the amino acid can accumulate in the blood, leading to an increase in pressure. Also, this substance is presumably associated with the secretion of the stress hormone norepinephrine, which, together with increased KD, leads to sad consequences for the head. If you are not ready to completely give up cheese, then we advise you to choose less aged varieties, since the concentration of tyramine only increases over time.
– Processed meats and fish –
Speaking of time, canned fish or processed meats also contain more tyramine than fresh meat products. Sausages, salami, sausages, pickled fish and even caviar can exacerbate migraines. The situation is aggravated by the content in many types of processed meat of a large amount of nitrates and nitrites from preservatives.
They help expand the walls of blood vessels, which provokes an increase in blood flow to the brain, and for some this is quite enough to come down with an acute headache.
– Sauerkraut and kimchi –
Russian, that the Korean national dish was included in this list not by chance, because they have one thing in common – a high content of tyramine. It is provoked by the time that the product spends waiting for readiness in a preserving environment. At this point, many of us should already be thinking about starting to eat only fresh food, but we’ll continue anyway, considering a couple more drinks.
– Coffee –
Despite the fact that caffeine is an ingredient in many vasoconstrictive headache medications, some people attribute completely opposite properties to coffee, tea and other caffeinated drinks. The official answer of scientists on this issue is as follows: coffee itself does not cause a headache, but a break or a sharp rejection of its constant use may well respond to migraine attacks.
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By the way, 200mg of caffeine or about a couple of 200ml cups of coffee per day is considered normal.
– Wine –
purely from a practical point of view, we are all familiar with the ability of wine to aggravate the condition in the morning, few people know exactly why this happens. Firstly, wine, like all alcohol, removes moisture from the body in large quantities, and you can immediately forget about a bright head in a dehydrated state. Secondly, red wine contains tannins, flavonoids from the skin of grapes, which give it a characteristic dry and tart taste. It is the latter that to a greater extent affect the state of the head in the morning after evening libations due to changes in the level of certain chemicals in the brain. The good news is that you can reduce your risk of migraines by choosing a wine with a lower tannin content, such as Cabernet or Merlot.
– Dried or overripe fruits –
The list can also be summed up by fruits and vegetables saturated with tyramine over time, which were dried or simply hit the table in an overripe state.
In addition to the antioxidant already familiar to us, “dehydrated” fruits and berries, for example, raisins or dates, contain the preservative sulfite, which, although they cannot yet be directly associated with a headache, is already seriously suspected. So, if you suddenly decide to go grocery shopping between migraine attacks, then do not be too lazy to read the composition and, having found sulfite in the list, leave the product on the shelf.
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Do you eat raw meat? It’s good not. But the raw food diet is now in vogue and sometimes oversteps the bounds. Today, a case of trichinosis associated with eating raw pork has been reported. A young man fell ill, who eats everything, including meat, raw. “I was treated to pork at a party when I was with relatives in the Altai Territory. A pig was slaughtered in my presence, I cut out part of the meat from the carcass, salted it and ate it. In recent years, an increase in the incidence of trichinosis has been noted in the Altai Republic. Trichinosis is a parasitic disease, the causative agent of infection is a small round worm – Trichinella, which is widely distributed in nature among predators and omnivorous mammals, rodents. In the human environment, so-called synanthropic foci of invasion arise, where pigs, dogs, cats, and house rodents are affected. In nature, the source of infection are wild boars, badgers, raccoon dogs, brown and polar bears. The transmission of invasion in the synanthropic focus occurs between pigs, dogs and cats when they eat the meat of sick animals. Parasite larvae, surrounded by a dense capsule, live in the muscles of animals, where they remain viable for 40 years. They are highly resistant, tolerate prolonged cooling, heating, salting, smoking of meat and die only when pieces of meat with a thickness of no more than 8 cm are welded for 2.5 hours. In the Republic of Altai, the main route of human infection is through the meat of a brown bear, less often through the meat of dogs and badgers, used in smoked form, in the form of dumplings, meatballs, shish kebabs. Incubation or latent period – from 3 to 45 days, more often from 10-20 days, after which symptoms of the disease appear: fever, which can last from 1 to 6 weeks, swelling of the eyelids, puffiness of the face, muscle pain, various skin rashes . In severe cases of the disease, damage to the myocardium, lungs, and central nervous system is possible. Trichinosis is characterized by group diseases and outbreaks. At 19In 1985, in the Republic of Altai, 26 people became infected and fell ill with trichinosis through the meat of a brown bear, which was consumed by 94 people. Those people who ate meat after a long boil (2.5-3 hours) did not get sick. Microscopic examination of the remains of bear meat showed that the meat was literally “stuffed” with Trichinella larvae. By the way, dangerous larvae are visible only under a microscope. Prevention consists in preventing the consumption of meat that has not passed the sanitary and veterinary examination. You can not purchase meat products from private individuals selling in unidentified places. The sale of meat and meat products is permitted only in places specially equipped for this purpose in compliance with sanitary rules. Prolonged cooking of meat is also a guarantee of its safety. |
He brought the rest of the meat home to Gorno-Altaisk. After 3 weeks, my temperature rose to 40 degrees, I had a severe headache and weakness, and swelling on my face. No one else ate raw meat. The rest of the pig is still in the home refrigerator, ”the victim said … Alas, a laboratory study of the meat of the seized pig showed the presence of microscopic Trichinella larvae in it.
In nature, the circulation of invasion is maintained by predation, by eating the meat of sick animals.
In the common people, the disease is called “puffiness” – because of the pronounced swelling of the face.