Thursday 21 January

Well i’ve been drinking green tea (vile) can handle the one with mint but can’t leave the tea bag in like I do with chamomile.  Have eaten almonds, mixed seeds, blackberries and some salmon.  My skin has a few raised spots but nothing too bad.

I have been to get tested for food tollerances and feel utterly depressed – I can introduce yoghurt into my diet as this will provide the calcium that my body is needing.  Wheat can be introduced but I have to be careful.  The thing that is really upsetting me is that I now have a bad reaction with yeast – which means I can no longer drink my real ale/beer and not only that I now have an intollerance to chocolate – whereby I was allowing myself to eat dark chocolate which contained no milk I can no longer have that now.
The other items were still the same, citrus fruits, peppers, paprika pepper, cayenne pepper but as yeast is contained in fruits this means that I really should keep my fruits to a bare minimum and just eat vegetables – berries are fine though which is strange.  Also, it came out that I can’t drink tea (black tea) which I haven’t done for a while anyhow but how strange.  She thinks the antibiotics could be having an effect and that is why if I decide to introduce wheat then it shouldn’t be a lot and to introduce the little I have very slowly.

The deficiencies vitamin wise are calcium, magnesium, folic acid and all my B Vitamins (B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (patothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine) and B12 (cobalamin).  So she has suggested a vitamin B complex and one that does not flush.  Time will tell.

One thing I am intrigued about is this theory Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) which could potentially be linked between my Rosacea and IBS.  I’ve pasted the link below which discusses further

http://rosaceagroup.org/The_Rosacea_Forum/showthread.php?t=13631&page=3

To me, this theory actually makes sense and will continue to investigate.