Resource Dairy Contributes Significantly To Symptoms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Adolescents

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Diary Contributes Significantly To Symptoms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Adolescents - Study suggests everyone with ME/CFS should be careful about dairy

Dr. Peter Rowe of Johns Hopkins was one of the first researchers to find orthostatic intolerance in ME/CFS, and to associate Ehlors Danlos Syndrome with ME/CFS, and the first to propose that muscle-tendon problems were impairing range of motion and causing exercise problems.

Now he's blazing another trail. He just published a study indicating that milk intolerance is common in adolescent ME/CFS patients and causing them significant distress.

In a former talk Dr. Rowe went so far as to...

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[Kat]

This is excellent, and it's good that it distinguishes between lactose (sugar) and casein (protein).
After reading about a relationship between casein and inflammation last winter, I experimented with going dairy-free. My feet stopped burning, menstrual cramps improved to manageable, bowels improved, and skin cleared up, and I stopped waking so frequently at night. I really miss cheese and ice-cream, but not enough to outweigh the benefits of going dairy-free.

Edit: Worth noting that at 37, I'm not exactly an adolescent.

 

[Cort]

This is excellent, and it's good that it distinguishes between lactose (sugar) and casein (protein).
After reading about a relationship between casein and inflammation last winter, I experimented with going dairy-free. My feet stopped burning, menstrual cramps improved to manageable, bowels improved, and skin cleared up, and I stopped waking so frequently at night. I really miss cheese and ice-cream, but not enough to outweigh the benefits of going dairy-free.

Edit: Worth noting that at 37, I'm not exactly an adolescent.

That's pretty powerful.

I just talked to someone who's college age daughter with ME/CFS and various ailments was greatly helped by going off of milk.

I can't handle much soy - what a fatigue inducer soy is for me! - but I must say that Trader Joe's Cherry Soy Ice Cream I think it is is to die for.

 

[Edie]

I have Fibromyalgia and dairy became a real problem for me. If I accidently ingest some, I'm sick for a good 3 days, until it clears my system. I buy shredded rice cheese from the Health Food Store and Pizza Hut makes me my favorite pizza. I like the 'GOVEGGIE' brand and you can't tell the difference between it and the real mozzarella. Alternatives to dairy products are getting better and better.

 

[San Diego]

Title says “diary” rather than “dairy”.

I was expecting some article about hyper vigilance.

 

[Rachel Riggs]

Well, it makes me happy to read this -- as a former artisan cheese shop owner -- I wasn't just imagining it, was I?? I no longer touch the stuff.

 

[Lissa]

That's pretty powerful.

I just talked to someone who's college age daughter with ME/CFS and various ailments was greatly helped by going off of milk.

I can't handle much soy - what a fatigue inducer soy is for me! - but I must say that Trader Joe's Cherry Soy Ice Cream I think it is is to die for.

Ditto for me with soy. Soy is my #1 enemy! It totally wipes me out, especially anything with soy protein.

 

[Cort]

Title says “diary” rather than “dairy”.

I was expecting some article about hyper vigilance.

Fixed.

 

[Kat]

That's pretty powerful.

I just talked to someone who's college age daughter with ME/CFS and various ailments was greatly helped by going off of milk.

I can't handle much soy - what a fatigue inducer soy is for me! - but I must say that Trader Joe's Cherry Soy Ice Cream I think it is is to die for.

Honestly, I'd been pretty adamant for a long time that dairy was NOT a problem for me. So I was shocked at how much benefit I got from finally trying to eliminate it.
I'm with you on the soy sensitivity - it would be a toss-up for me to have real ice cream (no less than 6 hours before bed, to let the effects wear off of course!) or go for a soy substitute.

 

[TigerLilea]

I have gone dairy free twice now and neither time noticed any improvement or difference to my CFS symptoms.