see an allergist

sue k

Many people find their allegies aggravated by dairy, but very often not
by butter or heavy cream, because the protein amount in them is trace
for butter and very small for heavy cream unless the brand has added
mild solids.  

Some lowcarbers find improvement when they cut out dairy, but others find
that wheat or corn causes more sinus problems than dairy.  My allergies
are aggravated badly by corn or corn syrup, somewhat by wheat, and not
at all by dairy.

Pre-LC I was on allergy meds year round.  While LCing and avoiding corn,
I only need them for a few weeks during spring tree pollen season and
fall ragweed season.  If I eat corn, or a soft drink made from corn
syrup, my nose starts running, my sinuses clog up and my chest gets
mildly asthmatic.

HTH

I accuse the typical grocery store of not thinking, not you.  The
standard place to find eggs in any grocery store is a refrigerated
section labelled Dairy.  What's up with that?  It's as dumb a label
as finding Spam in the row that just says "Canned fish".  Uhm, okay,
so Spam is canned fish, then?  Right.

In another post you mentioned that you have problems that look like
allergies so your doctor suggested you probably have a diary allergy.
Maybe, maybe not.  Try a month without dairy and see how it goes.
That's only a guess on the doctor's part.  Thinking it may be an
allergy is a good guess.  Thinking it may be dairy is a guess without
the word good added, a lower percentage shot.  It could also be a
grain allergy.  They're at least as common as dairy allergies.  Eggs,
same deal.

If either of your parents are still alive, ask if you were a collicky
baby, if you needed to be given goat's milk, or similar.  If you
showed symptoms of dairy problems as a small child, you may have
outgrown most of thge symtpoms but not all.  That would increase the
chances that it's dairy.