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Posted by Jennifer (Buffalo) on 01/05/2006
A couple of weeks ago, I started "milking my diet" as advertised on TV. I was drinking 24 oz. of milk every 24 hours, and I developed a serious sinus infection. Went to the Doctors, and was put on antibiotics, which really didn't help. I started feeling better after about 3 weeks, and decided to start up my diet and exercise regimen again, which included drinking the 24 ounces of milk again. Sure as the sky is blue, I am suffering from another sinus infection. Apple cider vinegar and lots of water has helped but I know now that the excessive amounts of dairy are inducing my symptoms and will discontinue drinking that much of any dairy products.
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Posted by Mike (NY) on 12/01/2005
The answer is simple.. EVERYONE is allergic in some degree to dairy products. They are natural mucoids. Most people do not even realize they are allergic to dairy, but everyone is. If you cut out dairy products (all) for two weeks you will see an increase in the ability to breath, less spitting and such if you work out and even an increase in stamina... without doing any work. Add this to an allergy, cold season, and take someone who may not have the best health practices (most of us Americans:) ) and you have a recipe for sinusitis. Dairy is horrible... I urge you all to research how diary products seriously hinder the body's functionality and indeed the human potential in all of us.
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Posted by Larry (Grand Junction, Colorado) on 11/05/2005
It's the sugar!! Sorry, but the junk food has got to go! These highly processed foods contain bad oils, empty calories, and chemicals. Worse, they lack the nutrition we need to maintain our health. Eliminating the use of refined white sugar and flour altogether is highly important. Fighting colds a lot? Consider that eating or drinking 100 grams (8 tsp.) of sugar, the equivalent of one 12-ounce can of soda, can reduce the ability of white blood cells to kill germs by forty percent. The immune-suppressing effect of sugar starts less than thirty minutes after ingestion and may last for five hours. In contrast, the ingestion of complex carbohydrates, or starches, which are low glycemic, has no effect on the immune system.
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Posted by Rich (USA) on 10/22/2005
Every time I drink a Baskin Robbins Chocolate milk Shake, I come down with a Sinus infection and flu like symptoms. (chills, headache). Usually within twenty four hours. I never realized it was the shake until now.
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Posted by Mona (Salt Lake City) on 10/10/2005
Dreyer's Rocky Road Ice Cream is the cause of my sinus infection. I ate too much of it last year and the symptoms worsen every time I eat it. Of course, I've toned it down quite a bit. Thanks for the natural remedies suggested.
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Posted by James (Salem) on 10/05/2005
I ate some GOLD MEDAL RIBBON at a Baskin Robbins and came down with a sinus infection shortly after. I was searching the net and came across this site,,,,,weird stuff, i tell ya.
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Posted by Christina (Corning) on 10/05/2005
wow ...I never knew there was a link between the Baskin Robbins ice cream and sinus infections. I thought it was only me. Every time I have a decaf cappuccino blast my throat gets really sore and scratchy and I am sick for several days. I had one the other day too and now I have a horrible sinus infection my face hurts sooo bad and I can't wait for the antibiotics to start working.
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Posted by Demetrius (St. Louis) on 08/27/2005
I recently was in Malaysia, and I ate two big scopes of Baskin Robbins cherry's gracia ice cream. The week and a half before I felt fine, but the last few days there I suddenly became ill. I had not been sick in years. I originally thought it was because that was my first time in another country, but why didn't I get sick after only a few days. I developed flu like symptoms after 24 hours of eating the ice cream.
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Posted by Josh (Schaumburg) on 08/26/2005
I haven't had ice cream in years, had ice cream the last three days in a row from Mcdonalds and today I have the biggest meanest sinus infection of all time.
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Posted by Katherine (Deloraine) on 08/23/2005
You've just made me discover why my nose infection is recurrent. Ice-cream... is a very possible cause!?!? Golden Gay Times, Bulla and Peters icecreams all seem to affect me!! My nose is inflammed, sore, and it irritates something terrible! Have just started ACV today after discovering your website last week...here i go.
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Posted by Natasha (Alpharetta, Georgia) on 08/13/2005
This might just be a coincidence. I NEVER eat ice cream!!!! But the other day I felt like indulging and I ate a lot of mint ice cream. It wasn't baskin robbins. That night my husband said he thought I might have fever. I felt fine so I didn't really pay attention. The next morning I woke up with the worst sinus infection ever!!! My head is about to explode and I am very congested. I read this article and I can't believe the coincidence.
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Posted by Ashley (Pleasanton, CA) on 08/09/2005
Just recently I have been looking for natural remedies to my day to day issues I just can't get rid of. Today, I feel congested and I'm coughing up things I shouldn't have to. After reading your webpage on Sinus Infections, I realized I did have ice cream two days ago. I ate two fat boy ice cream sandwiches on Sunday and now on Tuesday I feel so congested. Interesting tip, and keep them coming.
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Posted by Shirley (Ontario) on 07/26/2005
I have definitely seen a connection between Baskin Robbins ice-cream and my sinus problems. Three times I've traced the onset of my sinus infection to that particular ice cream.Over this past year I have been building my immune system by taking oil of oregano, ACV and other vitamins. However,after I came down with flu-like symptoms with-in twenty-four hours of eating it the last time, I poured hydrogen peroxide in both my ears and stopped it in its track.
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Posted by Janet (Sale Australia) on 07/15/2005
Was very interested in sinus attacks after ice cream, I suffer terrible sinus & it has just occured to me that more so when I eat ice cream, for a while there I would eat it every night after my main meal. i am going to try the apple cider, as I quite often go through 1-2 pkts of sinus tabs a week & it can't be any good for me. Also I am a great believer in colloidal silver, since taking it I have hardly had a cold & if I get the early signs of a cold it doesn't turn into a cold.
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Posted by Cherie (Jacksonville) on 07/13/2005
Sinus infections can begin with all dairy, not just ice cream, included are cheese, milk, and yogurt to name a few. I've had instances of all.
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Posted by Fountainflower (Chicago, Il, 60302) on 03/26/2010
That used to be true for us in our youth, but with strict diet we built up an ability to have small amounts of healthy dairy from time to time with no problems what so ever. We would occasionally have cheese from the Pyrenees mountains, sheep's milk mixed with cow, or from Italy, made purely without hormones and such. We would also every blue moon buy organic salt-free butter and that would be fine. We have had organic ice cream from time to time with no problem at all. It's only recently have we given in and tried a mainstream store bought ice cream with LOTS of artificial colour in it, it looked so fake, and it made us both very ill. I even have a small amount of lactose intolerance when drinking milk, but can name 4 brands of ice cream from the health food store that won't make me sick. I was told I could never eat cheese after having sinus surgery in my teens. I eat cheese like I mentioned at least every 3 weeks with no side affects. We suspect it's the things ADDED to these mainstream foods that aren't organic or having completely all natural ingrediants that come from cows that aren't injected with chemicals and the industrial processes are cleaner and different than mainstream processes. That's our new theory, since it's become obvious that clean safe dairy doesn't make us sick but the mainstream brands make us very ill. Everyone is different!
