canola-rape

 

I have this "allergy" thing.... 

 

when we were stationed in england, just off base was a HUGE field of bright yellow flowers. we discovered that every time the wind blew from that direction or when we drove that way (even with the windows up) I had a severe reaction. my nose literally ran like a faucet. I had to just hold tissues over my nose and add more as they became saturated with violent yellow liquid. alternately, my sinuses swelled til they felt they would burst out of my cheeks. and my eyes burned. we learned the name of the flowers: rape. well. ok.

 

I just learned that canola oil is pressed rapeseed.

 

I changed my oil purchases from vegetable oil to canola oil in 2005-6.... (whenever it was that tad got a high cholesterol test).... I began getting violently ill the fall of 2006.

 

I wonder.... if my allergy to rapeseed _caused_ my gut issues and created the sensitivity to milk. guess what I am eliminating altogether starting today?