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Sandra (Ravenel SC) on 03/20/2005:
me and my friend went to baskin robins thursday night and friday the next day were on antibiotics for a sinus infection.
This is the most extraordinary thing I've encountered (and I'm already familiar with many complemetary therapies) I've had a very severe sinus infection for over 5 weeks, which has not responded to 5 different antibiotics. It started when my daughter had Whooping Cough, so I thought it had been caused by the pertussis bacteria. I now realise from your website that it was due to ice cream, which I don't normally eat but was buying regularly for my daughter when she was sick (and eating loads myself!) I've just tried a strong solution of ACV in water and can breathe for the 1st time in weeks.I thought I was going to have to have surgery. The words thank you have never seemed so inadequate (especially as so many sites are just out to sell you their cures not just share them as you do).
Believe it or not... yesterday I had a vanilla/chocolate dipped cone from Dairy Queen. Today, I'm miserable!! Sinus headache, post nasal drip... scratchy throat etc. I even went out and bought a cool mist humidifier. Out of desperation for what I feel lies close ahead, I decided to search the web for home remedies before heading for bed (to wrestle the body aches). Thankful to have found your site. Tomorrow, apple cider vinegar, here I come!!!
Wow, I couldn't believe what I read about the ice cream. I've had ice cream several times in the last week, and I have also incurred a sinus infection. That's the reason I was searching the web for remedies!
I was amazed, but not surprised to read about others who suffer flu-like symptoms after eating ice cream. I usually get a headache and increased sinus pressure from any milk product but the last time I was really sick was when I had eaten a Blizzard from Dairy Queen. That has been several years ago but I haven't forgotten how sick I was for a week or so. Milk products, in general, do a number on me but ice cream is especially harmful.
I couldn't believe it when I read the ice cream correlation. I am temporarily living in Italy and I find that I also have the same sinus infection reaction after eating locally made Italian ice cream.
Ice cream must really have a link to sinus infections. Last night I went to Rafferties Bar and Grill. I ordered a Mudslide. Of course it has alcohol, but another ingredient was ice cream. This morning I woke up with a sinus infection from HELL! I can't shake it. I hope that Apple Cider Vinegar works. I have a date this weekend. I'll let everyone know the details, about the AVC of course
This is weird, but I had a shake from Baskin Robbins on Saturday night, and the next afternoon I started getting symptoms of a sinus infection. I ran a fever on Monday, and today I can hardly breathe.
I recently had a sinus infection/flu-like symptoms 24 hrs after going to Baskin Robbins. I shared a sundae with my boyfriend and we both didn't fill well the next day. I just seemed to feel worse and for several days. I'm going to definitely try the vinegar!!!
i've had the nastiest sinus infection for the last 4 days... so bad I haven't been able to get out of bed... and I couldn't figure out what brought this on... I have decided that it was a mudslide that I drank on tuesday night... Thank you for all the information to helping me understand how I got this infection.
Wanted to let you know I had a similar icecream/sinus infection incident. We rarely get ice cream, maybe twice a year or so tops. This time it was Dreyers Rocky Road and I came down with a sinus infection within 48 hours of eating a coffee cup full.
When I eat Baskin Robbins Jamoca Almond fudge I break out in a rash over most of my body, this is also accompanied with an itchy throat and ears. My sinus' get congested too. When I eat Breyers (all natural ice cream) I don't have this problem.
I had no idea these two things are linked, however I had Baskin Robbins ice cream yesterday morning and today I have a sinus infection. I am 29 years old and this is my third sinus infection of my life.
I ate McDonald's ice cream on Monday and started having symptoms (that I remember) on Thursday. I am not sure if this would be related, but I haven't eaten McDonald's ice cream in years.
My step father's birthday was a few days ago and I ate a baskin robbins cake and for the first time in my life I got a sinus infection and I don't have money to go to the doctors. To find that some ice creams are poison to the body makes me really mad.
I was sooo relieved to read your article. I have had serious sinus infections for years. I have trouble getting rid of them, and I have been to many doctors including specialists. A few years ago I noticed a connection with ice cream. The doctors said it was a coincidence? It isn't. I have run several tests and it IS caused by ice cream. In my case, any brand. I am also a professional singer, and I have mucous problems that make it very difficult to sing. I hope the information you have here helps me.
Well, this is too weird. I have been searching online this whole weekend for a cure to my sudden and extreme pain in my head, teeth and sinuses, and I am shocked to read this since it started minutes after eating a large bowl of a premium store ice cream. Now I can't eat at all since my teeth hurt so badly, especially on one side into my ear. My head hurts and although I do not have a stuffy nose, I can tell that it is sinus related since when I lay down the pain increases, especially in particular positions. I have had sinus headaches and infections before due to allergies, but nothing like this!! No more ice cream for me when my seasonal allergies start!
Hi, I Live in Westchester County, NY. The pollen count is always very high from April to October. Aside from allergy season, I have found - through my personal experiences - that all dairy products consumed do cause a number of mucous producing problems. Eat a couple scoops of any ice cream and you're going to wake up the next day with a mucous overgrowth either in your sinuses, lungs or throat. Dairy is not good for adults to consume, period. FYI - I stopped using dairy in my diet 2 years ago because of the mucous build-up and sinus infections, and not only have I lost over 60 lbs, but I no longer have that thick, greenish-yellow mucous to look forward to after eating an ice cream cone!
I have suffered severe sinusitis attacks for a number of years particularly after the birth of my second child. i have sometimes wondered whether eating desserts with custard have caused some of the terrible attacks I have suffered. Now that I have read about some of the ice-cream related problems by others I feel that there must be a link. On many an occasion I have woken up with pain around my eyes following an evening on which I have eaten custard. I am definitely going to try the apple cider vinegar treatment.
I was bad yesterday and this morning and had some Edy's Ice Cream and am now suffering from a sinus headache. It could just be a coincidence, but I'm gonna watch out in the future.
I too came down with a nasty sinus infection w/in 24 hours of eating 1/2 serving of a small dairy queen Blizzard--I haven't been to fast-food place in years but I had a sore throat and thought an ice cream would be a treat for my throat!
I am totally amazed, I woke up this morning with a stuffy nose and a lot of sinus pressure. I took my daughter to BRAUMS yesterday for a mother/daughter thing, and now I am sick.
I started drinking milk shakes one time as a possible alternative to beer and sodas. I had quit drinking but needed and craved a high dose of sugar. Not to long afterwards, I developed a sinus infection afterwards and since have had nasal polyps since.
Am sure my family's (many farmers) consumption of milk and other dairy products has been responsible for not only sinus infections of which some were only thwarted by goldenseal/cayenne capsules but also my inertia and whole lack of interest in school subjects, doing homework, etc. If I had known then what I know now, I would have dropped off milk products years ago. I still have a dish of ice cream once in a while, with consequences, and grilled cheese sandwiches which do not seem to have as much effect on me. My younger daughter once told a group who was discussing one of the ladies sons who was not doing well in school, and the mother doubted that milk might have something to do with it, that "If you give my Mother a glass of milk, you had better have a bed ready for her in about half an hour". I wish we could get the schools to quit promoting the consumption of milk in their cafeterias.
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