Does soy or diary have hidden names?

[maria]

I was diagnosed with gastritis 2 weeks ago (severe pain in my stomach after I eat). My dr put me on medication to lower the stomach acid production. The medicine did absolutely nothing. No pun intended, my gut feeling is that it is a sensativity to soy or diary causing the problem. I have always had stomach problems all my life, heartburn indigestion, ect, so it isn't something brand new... just the sharp severe pain.

In anycase, I mentioned to the Dr when I went to see him the first time with the pain about food allergies. He told me that the testing isn't very accurate so he doesn't like to do testing for food allergies. Last week I started using lactose free milk... and limited my soy intake. The pain subsided significantly, but didn't go away. I found out this weekend that I was still eating quite a bit of things with soy oil and of course I was still drinking milk but lactose free. I called the Dr this morning. He told me to eliminate soy and diary completely, and if the pain wasn't gone by next week then he wanted to check for an ulcer or other bad things. I don't agree with that, since food trials can take up to 6 months, but that is a whole different post. ;)

In anycase, just wondering if you any of you know if diary or soy have hidden names. Like I know sugar can be listed as tons of different things. This really sucks and eliminates all to food I love, but at least it will force me to eat healthy. Thanks for any help.

Maria L.

PS If any of you know of any websites I can venture too that would be helpful too :)

[Connie Brown]

What a good question, Maria. I haven't seen a list of hidden terms for soy or dairy anywhere on the net. They aren't like sweeteners that way.

Soy is usually on the ingredient list as "soy" something.

Dairy can be "whey" or "milk solids" or the various forms of milk and cheese, and you probably know all those.

You know who I might ask... this sounds a little weird but every single county in the US has a "USDA extension agent" whose job it is to answer questions for us, the taxpayer, about ag stuff including processing and labeling. I might find my local extension agent and send him or her for the answers.

[maria]

Connie thanks for the usda idea. I never knew that.

[shadow]

soy is actually in virtually every processed food as some kind of emulsifier or other strange addativie. it is the most widely grown crop (the vast majority of it GMO) in the world now.

it's uses range from bread, to cakes, to chocolates, to soup mixes, and on and on.
i would say in a normal supermarket you would find soy in about 70% or so of the products on the shelves.

its an insiduous little thing.

(as part of my assignment i actually went around a supermarket looking at ingredients lists, and it's pretty startling whats in what.... msg is in virtually everything also, and aspartame has crept its way into a lot of products also including some kinds of potato chips! there is a new chemical out called "neotame" which is much sweeter than aspartame, and as a result more toxic also, but because of the minute amounts needed can be added without listing it as an ingredient)

my advice.... don't buy any processed foods whatsoever and you'll be fine.