TOMATOES AND RA???

elnafinn

Hi Lynn

Fresh tomatoes do not like me! I still eat the home grown ones because they are so delicious but I do notice a change in my OA for a day or so. Perhaps it is because I eat so many of them. Tinned toms etc do not seem to make my OA worse.

Luv
Elna x

frogmorton

Lynn

I wonder....very brave of you to do that experiment!!

Well at least you willl avoid them in teh future......

Like Elna I love my won tomnatoes - infact I am off into the greehouse to repot the ones I am growing form seed in a mo

Well you take care and thanks for that....tinned you say?>

mmm...

Love

Toni xx

wibberley

Hiya Lynn,

Does sound like there may be a connection - dare you go for a 3rd try???

I went to an accupuncturist who told me I wasn't digesting my iron tablets so would have to get more iron into my diet. I duly did what I was told (for once!) and ate steak and spinach every night, and really suffered with the RA. Stopped that and things became marginally less painful.

Also, during the time I was veggie my RA was in remission. Am by no means saying others should try it, but I do think my body behaves better when it doesn't have animal protein to break down.

Nothing to do with RA, but the palms of my hands get itchy and red when peeling tomato skins!

Lois x

frogmorton

Lois

you think it was the red meat for you??

I will say when this first kicked off for m I had been swimming...rested and after a week it went so....went swimming again and came back worse....went swimming AGIN (was scared to go by now) and ended up 'stuck' for weeks.

Def blamed the pool but I now swim regularly and all has been well. So it honestly was coincidence :oops:

Love

Toni xx

dolittle

Hi Lyn,
I can't eat anything with tomato in it. My hands and fingers swell up something awful - and I love tomatoes. Ah, well. We can't have it all.
Dolittle

tkachev

i have heard negative things about tomatoes but also potatoes and mushrooms. Somebody told me they stopped eating all 3 and their arthritis went away. I cant verify this cos there is real arther and imagined arther and dont think it works for me as I love potatoes.

Elizabeth

frogmorton

Lynn

dont forget to let us know - then I will try it too


you never knwo I do it tinned sometimes but not that often - I might have eaten tHEM before I went swimming too :shock:

Love

Toni xx

page35

Hi Lynn

let us know how the 3rd try goes.
i haven't found anything that makes the RA better or worse so far, it is just progressing randomly as far as i can tell.
my nan didnt eat tomatoes cos she said they made her knees worse, she had OA.

take care

skezier

Hi Lynn,

I haven't noticed food affecting my bones at all but the IBD will not tolerate tomatoes be they raw, home grown, cooked tinned or in soup! Its enough to trigger a flare if you eat too many so they do seem to be a little less innocent than they pretend Shame of it is they are nice.......

Food has never been proved though (it has with IBD especially crohn's) but since we are all different how do they know?

Go careful with the experimenting....... Love Cris who now wants a tomato so badly in an omelet with mushrooms (nother thing I can't tolerate just now) xx

speedalong

Hi Lyn

tomatoes can be the trigger to quite a few things ... some people find cooked tomatoes the worst and that they are still ok with uncooked salad ones (the acidity is altered by the cooking process) so if you are feeling brave - you could experiment ... if you wanted too! So it's cheesy pasta for now on then?

Speedalong

PS food intolerances often apply to food families - so worth investigating foods related to tomatoes!!

fayrose

Very interesting all this stuff about tomatoes. I love them, eat them virtually every day, mostly my own home grown fresh or frozen and when they run out I buy non-imported varieties when they are available.
Also I occasionally but locally raised beef and have heard the same thing about that RA-wise.

I discussed these things with my rheumatologist and he says there is no proof whatsoever that these foods influence RA.

I have had flares when eating toms, likewise I've had good painfree times when eating toms. :?

frogmorton

Hi

This is so interesting....Fay too

but....

I had pasta with a tomaoto 'sauce' on it :shock:

will let you knwo if there is any effect...

love

Toni xx

tkachev

i had pasta with tom sauce last night. No increase in R.A symptoms but I woke up in middle of the night with a massive headache and acid-reflux(prefer these two to R.A pain any day).

Elizabeth

frogmorton

[i had pasta with tom sauce last night. No increase in R.A symptoms but I woke up in middle of the night with a massive headache and acid-reflux(prefer these two to R.A pain any day).

Elizabeth[/quote]

Too right Elizabeth me too :shock: any day at all

Love

Toni xx