Are these symptoms or just a cold?

[Pam]

I've been a really naughty lady!!!!!! I have fallen off the wagon so to speak and eaten lots of dairy stuff over the last week.

I also did this when it was my birthday after hubby bought me some milk chocolates (for him and the kids to eat) but stubborn old me ate them instead. I then developed a few patches of eczema and some really itchy skin.

Last Wednesday we had a bit of a do at work and I pigged out on dips, cheesy flavoured things, chocolate muffins and profiteroles. That night I started with a sore throat which progressed into a full blown cataarh attack by Christmas day and I have still got the dreadful blocked up head feeling a week later (and have continued to eat trifle, crisps, milk chocolate etc)

I can't complain because it is all my fault, nobody made me eat the stuff - but I have really enjoyed it! I'm still no wiser as to whether it is my fault for eating milk stuff or if I have simply got a cold (hubby has just got a cold too, but we have been with other people who have had colds). Until I've finished all the chocs and biscuits at work I won't find out either. I'm itching now, just at the thought of the trifle that I have just eaten. Serves me right I suppose.

[matt]

i'd love to be all holier than though but i know what you mean. i've smoked over the christmas week even though i gave up two years ago. i know how stupid it is but i enjoy it. i'd put money on it being symptoms not a cold. if you're happy to live with it then carry on eating the stuff until it all goes.


hope it's worth it!

[Bet]

Pam

My daughter had very bad sinus problems until we realised she had a milk intolerance We took her to a cranial osteopath who suggested putting her on a milk free diet. I'm sure you know but a cranial Ost. does head massage / manipulation. The day after we took her, her nose started running which we thought was a heavy cold at first, but it lasted 6 weeks! Thats how blocked her sinuses were. I'm sure this is a sympton of eating dairy products again I'm afraid.

My vise for Xmas has been alcohol - so I'm going to see the new year in tonight with a bottle of bubbly and then go back to drinking water! I won't like it but I'm sure my body will!

[Pam]

Sounds like there has been more than me who has been naughty then! We'll all have to make and stick to our new years resolutions to eat/drink more healthily again.