have been struggling with a nasty allergic skin condition as well as allergic asthma, and as I progress through the process of elimination, I am sad to discover that I may not be able to eat any kind of dairy product.

Not goat, sheep or buffalo milk even.

I can't be 100% certain but I didn't have any milk or cheese all of yesterday, after this allergy on my skin got to a point of unbearable, as well as for 3 days in a row seemingly also causing sleeplessness (via H3 histamine, which is part of the mechanism of many stimulants that cause sleeplessness), I decided I have to try eliminating it first, as it is the most likely suspect.

I confirmed I had to eliminate it the first time I was studying this allergy problem when it first flared up while I was at the low security prison in Kazichene in the last 4 months of my 1 year sentence. At that time, basically the only food I could tolerate was literally the shitty cuts of pork back (the spine part). The bread I could tolerate only if I took this nasty old antihistamine called Chloropyramine.

This drug proved to be quite dangerous as I was working through the alcohol detox, and I had a box of it I had been using, which I threw away when I realised that it may have been making my symptoms worse, and potentially more deadly.

So, so far, I have confirmed the following foods are ok for me to eat:

• coconut oil
• lard
• spinach
• lettuce
• carrots
• eggs
• pork, beef, chicken
• oranges
• plums
• apricots

Allergens

I am now uncertain whether parsely is ok, it seems at least the stems may be allergenic. It is possible that apples and pears are allergenic, and I already know that onion (and garlic), tomato (including canola, potato, capsicum and chilli) and melon (including cucumber and pumpkin) families are all out, as are all types of seeds, which includes cashews, almonds peanuts, and numerous incorrectly named 'nuts' that do not sprout before popping open.

Preservatives

I am pretty sure that Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate are both also allergenic. It should not be a surprise, really, since these chemicals are actually present in several of those allergens above (notably benzoates, related to salycilates, present in all three of those families of plants mentioned above).

You may have been told as a child not to eat red berries? These poisonous red berries contain benzoic acid. Also, when benzoic acid is combined with ascorbic acid (as is common with many soft drinks) the toxicity is exacerbated. I think the cause is that the ascorbic acid changes some of the benzoic acid into phenol (No shit, really, you don't want to drink phenol, it's an old, phased out, toxic antiseptic cleaning chemical that used to be used for floor cleaners).

The Plan:

I will be now sticking to what I have confirmed is ok, and introducing one potential candidate for investigation per day, to eliminate confusing the diagnostic process with the question of whether one addition or another.

I am sad to not be able to consume dairy products at all. I even have to eliminate butter, which leaves me with coconut oil and lard as my options for the critical oils in my diet. I need to find where I can get beef dripping. Beef dripping is tasty! It used to be what McDonalds chips were fried in before the margarine anti-saturated-fat campaign started. The distinctive flavour that they still have is even still extract of certain parts of beef dripping.

The nice thing is, as I become more certain about what causes the problems, I become more free of symptoms, and better able to do all this work I am doing.