in regards to danceintx and hopeless dork, all my allergys lead me to have numbness and racing heart. they are less commen side effects of allergys but still present. i get very bad were my numbness is compleatly overwhelming and can barly move. i also go very dazed, and sometimes find it hard to string sentances together.
i have seen my doctor about this many a time and it has always been put down to allergys as my mother suffered the same thing.
and to sourpuss, it is probebly another ingrediant in the things that you are eating if it is a allergy.
I've worked with several kids on the autism spectrum who are either gluten or dairy-intolerant (and I stress - not allergic, just intolerant. Whole lot of GI symptoms, and some behavioral symptoms, but rarely any life-threatening allergies). Most of them seem to be more intolerant to processed foods (white breads, pasta, processed cheese) than to whole wheat or 'raw' products. I'm beginning to think that humans just weren't meant to eat bleached, enriched white flour. -I- get bloated and gassy after a meal that includes white-flour pasta, even though I don't have any other symptoms of food intolerance!
It could also be another ingredient, but if you think you'd have trouble keeping track, you can always change pasta products first and track down any secondary ingredients (like tomato sauce) after you verify the pasta's role in things. I'd suggest trying whole wheat pasta, which should be available through your local health food outlet. It might make a difference, and allow you to continue eating pasta products. Also experiment with egg noodles, corn/rice noodles, etc to see if all kinds of pasta have the same effect (if so, it's probably not gluten intolerance and you should start checking labels more carefully for ingredients that the foods have in common). You may find that it's simply an intolerance or allergy to the processed, white-flour stuff and that whole wheat or other pasta products are fine.
(To answer the question more simply: Yes, you can just be intolerant to white bread).
The more and more I think about it, the more I am suspicious I have celiac. I thought I did once before, and ordered off the internet an at home blood test for celiac, but it came out negative. I have many of the symptoms, and I have read that numbness in the extremities is a side effect of celiac.
So to start off with, re the flour/white bread: you could be reacting to sulfites (used to preserve white color), to what they bleach the flour with, or yeast. To the people with the numbness, yes it's a common symptom.
Re beer: it's fermented, that releases a lot of histamine. It also is high in yeast which is also in the bread and to a lesser extent in pasta.
To the people concerned about coeliac: get tested. it's really worth it. make sure you don't stop eating it otherwise you won't have measurable antibodies.
I have something called histaminosis. My body can't degrade the histamine released by food. I'm supposed to avoid:
Beer, wine, sausage, cashews, walnuts, macadamia, brazil nuts, bread, avocado, chicken, liver, tomatoes, pineapple, papaya, preservatives, sulfites, olives, yeast, anything fermented, anything with soy and a bunch of others. If it sounds restrictive, it is! But it just means going to a much healthier diet than I've ever had
If you've noticed reactions to the above (as a group) you might want to google histamine intolerance or histaminosis. I have a blog that talks about my symptoms and the rest but there are some really good resources about the issue. It took me 30 years to be diagnosed, but a lot of people just have an intolerance. I lack the enzyme necessary to degrade the histamine (like lactose intolerant people with milk) but in my case I'm not just suffering some discomfort, I was actually incapacitated by it and couldn't work or eat anymore. I'm all good now though Hope this helps someone!
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