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Tips For Dealing With Being Allergic To Yeast

2 March 2017 by Dylan Owens

If you are allergic to yeast, you likely find the entire situation to be relatively frustrating. Yeast is in a lot of foods and can be difficult to avoid without doing a lot of research beforehand. Here are some tips for dealing with and managing your yeast allergy so that you can live your life as fully as possible.

1. Keep a Low Carb Diet

The easiest way to avoid accidentally ingesting yeast is to stick to a low carb diet. The reason for this is that many foods, especially processed foods, that contain high amounts of carbohydrates include yeast. Your body does need carbs, but you can get simple carbohydrates from vegetables and fruits. The benefits of this dietary restriction is that it can help you maintain a healthy weight if you stick to it. If you are overweight, it might even help you lose weight.

2. Avoid Foods With Lactose

You might inadvertently ingest some yeast throughout the course of your day or week. This could be a problem if it grows and gets out of control because it could cause bloating and abdominal pain. In order to avoid having the yeast get out of control and wreak havoc through your body, try to make sure that you are avoiding dairy as much as possible, as well as other foods that contain lactose. The reason for this is that yeast eats lactose and grows when it consumes it. Avoiding lactose can help starve the yeast out of your body. 

If you are truly serious about starving out the yeast in your body so that you don't get the symptoms, you will also want to avoid foods that are high in sugar because yeast also consumes sugar in order to grow and spread.

3. Avoid Nuts

Some nuts will contain mold. For most people, this isn't a problem. If you have a yeast allergy, you want to avoid mold as much as possible because that mold could be yeast or could morph into yeast. Avoiding nuts such as cashews and walnuts will help you avoid accidentally ingesting more mold than you feel safe doing. 

By watching what you eat, you can avoid the problem of accidentally ingesting yeast for the most part. If you do accidentally consume some yeast, you can starve it out by severely limiting sugar and cutting out lactose intake. Talk to an allergist like those found at Premier Surgical Associates for more information.

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