Contaminated Olive Oil (and DS' reaction)?

[luminesce]

Ugh... DS had a reaction and the only thing we did differently was increase olive oil consumption (and I think we got a different brand recently.) With a few cursory Google searches, I ran across information about fraud in the olive oil industry and how there are often all kinds of other oils mixed in (soy, corn, who knows what else!)

Has anyone else had this problem? I'm rather peeved right now to think this might be what happened!

[lil_miss_understood]

There have been several threads on this.
I believe the "rule" was not to use your olive oil until you'd verified it's authenticity by refrigerating it for 3 days. If it had not become thick- if it remained liquid- in that time, it wasn't pure olive oil.
There was also one particular brand named which was a reliable source, but I don't recall which off hand.

ETA: Sorry to hear it happened to you.

[mamafish9]

What kind of reaction? Olive oil is high in salicylates, and when I ate a lot of it during my initial ED, DS reacted bigtime.

[lil_miss_understood]

Originally Posted by mamafish9

What kind of reaction? Olive oil is high in salicylates, and when I ate a lot of it during my initial ED, DS reacted bigtime.

....I don't like you.
"No berries," she says. "No coconut." she says. Now it's no olives. What's next?

[kjbrown92]

And when you're doing the refrigerator test, put some in a small bowl. If you put a giant jug in the fridge, it's going to take a while to solidify. Scalfani or something like that is the safe brand (he's the one that got the law written in CT to make it illegal for olive oil to be something else when labeled olive oil).

[luminesce]

Originally Posted by mamafish9

What kind of reaction?

Well, this one is totally confusing. DH had a touch of something on Saturday. He carried a fever around 99.4-100.4 for 3-4 days or so; a few upper respiratory symptoms and a few body aches. I had a 99.2 fever on Saturday too, but no glaringly obvious symptoms other than feeling a little tired and he seemed to drop to normal really quickly. I don't think DS ran a fever (I only checked once) and he acted normal ... but he did have a bit of a runny bowel movement that day. It coorelated with the day we gave him a little flax oil and prune juice so we attributed it to that. Then he didn't poop for 2 days. When he did, it was *really* runny. It wasn't frequent (just 2 movements each day or so) and it wasn't really diarrhea - not watery but like baby poop (pudding texture). There was no rash or allergy signs with the poops and since we had increased fats, I thought maybe that was *his* way of reacting to whatever bug we may have had - but then last night he had a bit of soreness with the poop so now I'm confused. Could be bug, could be food, could be related to the consistency being irritating, could be the olive oil, could be the rice milk - aaah! How can there be so many possibilities with so little change in our diet?

We got his IgG results today. Wheat, Gluten (gliaden), Milk were are 2 and on the avoid list. Corn, Carrot, Sunflower Seed, Egg White were between 0 and 1. So, again, we're not sure what to do from here. We're eating carrot and sunflower now and not a lot of variety yet. Do we introduce new stuff in the middle of the reaction that we aren't terribly suspicious of and are 0 reaction on the igG to diversify (and cut back or out the carrots and sunflower)? Or do we wait until the runny poos stop? He hasn't pooped today so I'm not sure...

This is only the second time he has ever had runny bowel movements since he started having formed stools and the first time only lasted 5 hours.

One other thing we are a little suspicious of, after research, is the Rice Dream rice milk, which is labeled gluten free but apparently processed with Barley. We did eat more of that than usual, as well as the olive oil.

We're surprised that the nightshades (potato particularly) didn't show up but then again, it might be that he is reacting to the content -- or maybe it just missed it? Soy was the only other thing we suspected but also didn't show up on the IgG.

For what is worth, my results showed egg white, lentils (2), milk and egg yolk (1). DH's showed yeast, (3) wheat, gluten, milk (2), blackberry, brazil, cashew, egg white, lentils, salmon (1), chili pepper, egg yolk, mushroom, pea, peppers, raspberry, string bean (0-1)

Overall though I'm not thinking it is sals after looking at sal content of specific foods. I don't know for sure though.

[kjbrown92]

how long have things been out of his diet? Some of the tests, you have to have consumed things within 6 months of the test, or those foods aren't as accurate. And for our ALCAT test, it missed corn which was DD2's biggest one (though she'd been off it for a year). For DS, it missed white potato and it said soy was only mild (though he'd been off both of those a year, but he'd also been off milk for over a year and that showed up as severe). And just remember reactions (real) trump results (test). I certainly wouldn't put anything new in until he's done with sickness/reaction that he's experiencing now, but I would take anything else out that you haven't already that tested positive.

[luminesce]

Originally Posted by kjbrown92

how long have things been out of his diet? Some of the tests, you have to have consumed things within 6 months of the test, or those foods aren't as accurate. And for our ALCAT test, it missed corn which was DD2's biggest one (though she'd been off it for a year). For DS, it missed white potato and it said soy was only mild (though he'd been off both of those a year, but he'd also been off milk for over a year and that showed up as severe). And just remember reactions (real) trump results (test). I certainly wouldn't put anything new in until he's done with sickness/reaction that he's experiencing now, but I would take anything else out that you haven't already that tested positive.

Egg (which was borderline but high on my suspect list) is the only food that has been out for a long time - around eight months. Everything else had been out of his diet *completely* 1-3 weeks prior to the test. We had restricted dairy/soy for a little while before but not removed completely. Some of the foods he has never eaten.

He is eating carrots and sunflower seed now, which were classified as borderline and haven't seemed to be causing reactions. The only other veggies that he can/will eat are sweet potatoes, butternut squash, fried zucchini and maybe a bite or two of cauliflower. (green beans & broccoli are refused). Other than meats and canola oil, sunflower seed butter is a pretty big part of his fat intake now.