But coffee is my one true love in life!
What I thought was just a meaningless question has made me think.
Okay, so I got talking to my old teacher last night, and we somehow got onto the subject of my eczema (I had consumed quite a lot of wine at this point, and so was talking nonsense) and how it had gotten better recently. He asked if I had tried the tip he'd suggested weeks ago and switched from cow's milk to goat's milk.
I said I hadn't, but it got me thinking... I haven't been drinking anything with milk in it recently. Okay, I've still been eating chocolate, and my eczema is only very mild now, but it made me wonder. Could I actually have an intolerance to milk?
I used to have very very bad eczema as a child, but it relented after a few years... And that sort of coincides with when I stopped eating cereal with milk for breakfast and begun eating toast. So that makes sense.
But I begun drinking coffee a lot in the last year of High school, and I didn't get anything then. That's the only time I ever have milk (unless, as I said before, it's hiding in something else I eat).
I always thought my eczema had something to do with my ex boyfriend. It sounds weird, but hear me out - I only started getting eczema again about three weeks after I started seeing him, and I've been away from him for nearly two months now, and it's all gone. I often wondered if it had something to do with the softener or detergent his mother used, but it turned out she used the same stuff my Mom does. So it wasn't that.
He did have two dogs, though. But I had had Steffie from when I was born til I was about twelve, and there was a six year period during then when I didn't have eczema. Unless maybe it's something else.
For the last two weeks, my eczema has come back a little bit, and I have been having coffee at Uni on the odd day.
So, to test whether it is milk or not, I had my coffee with a lot of milk today. If it's just a rash it produces, I don't mind testing it out.
So far, I'm alright. I had my coffee about an hour ago and nothing.
I'll just have to monitor it and see how things go.
Okay, so I got talking to my old teacher last night, and we somehow got onto the subject of my eczema (I had consumed quite a lot of wine at this point, and so was talking nonsense) and how it had gotten better recently. He asked if I had tried the tip he'd suggested weeks ago and switched from cow's milk to goat's milk.
I said I hadn't, but it got me thinking... I haven't been drinking anything with milk in it recently. Okay, I've still been eating chocolate, and my eczema is only very mild now, but it made me wonder. Could I actually have an intolerance to milk?
I used to have very very bad eczema as a child, but it relented after a few years... And that sort of coincides with when I stopped eating cereal with milk for breakfast and begun eating toast. So that makes sense.
But I begun drinking coffee a lot in the last year of High school, and I didn't get anything then. That's the only time I ever have milk (unless, as I said before, it's hiding in something else I eat).
I always thought my eczema had something to do with my ex boyfriend. It sounds weird, but hear me out - I only started getting eczema again about three weeks after I started seeing him, and I've been away from him for nearly two months now, and it's all gone. I often wondered if it had something to do with the softener or detergent his mother used, but it turned out she used the same stuff my Mom does. So it wasn't that.
He did have two dogs, though. But I had had Steffie from when I was born til I was about twelve, and there was a six year period during then when I didn't have eczema. Unless maybe it's something else.
For the last two weeks, my eczema has come back a little bit, and I have been having coffee at Uni on the odd day.
So, to test whether it is milk or not, I had my coffee with a lot of milk today. If it's just a rash it produces, I don't mind testing it out.
So far, I'm alright. I had my coffee about an hour ago and nothing.
I'll just have to monitor it and see how things go.