Some of you know I tried a vegetarian diet for about six months in a bid to lower my cholesterol (it worked, actually, and I was pretty happy eating vegetarian. I had less success in cooking separate meals for my family and myself, as I was the only one avoiding meat, so eventually, I decided chicken and fish are OK. It's probably a story for another blog that isn't about mold.).
What you may not know is that I also tried a mold-starvation diet in the summer after we moved into our townhouse to try to regain my equilibrium, a stricter eating plan on which I temporarily shunned pretty much all dairy and anything processed, plus some other things you probably wouldn't have thought to avoid.
The idea was to starve the mold so it couldn't thrive in my body anymore - make myself a tougher host for it. So I consulted information for people with mold allergies, and found there were specific foods they should avoid.
On the "don't eat" list - cheeses, mushrooms, dairy, hot dogs, lunch meat, bread, cereal, soy sauce, sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar and potatoes - notice the pattern of anything with yeast in it, anything pickled or fermented.
I stuck to it for a while, but eventually found I wasn't as sensitive as I had been immediately after the move and could eat some of those things again, which was around the time I started eating vegetarian.
I've been less strict about foods in the last three or four months and am now wondering if that could account for some of the more recent fatigue and itching. I'm also wondering about the humidifier I was advised to run at night to keep my sinuses moist - is it possible that's making it worse? Or, have I just turned myself into a worry-wort because I had this horrible mold reaction thing happen to me, and now I see it everywhere, even where it isn't? My fatigue, itching and cold that won't leave me alone make me think it's probably not in my head.
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