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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Here's a question. What do you think the proper protocol is if you have diverticulitis?
You can't digest seeds or nuts, and go into extreme pain if you consume them. However it's not an allergy like seafood or peanuts where incidental contact doesn't affect you.
Do you say allergy? As you go into extreme pain from consumption, but you don't need the kitchen to go into full on clean room mode.
Do you say you don't want them? Thus the kitchen doesn't go into full clean mode to ensure zero incidental contact, but less attention is paid. Thus you will get food with seeds and nuts from time to time (and from my experience more often than once in a blue moon).
Now I don't suffer from diverticulitis but I have a family member that does. She never used to like to say "allergy" but when food continuously comes out incorrect she switched to allergy. If they ask how severe she will tell them, incidental contact is ok but the meal cannot contain them.
So, what should protocol actually be here?
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I have diverticulitis and asked my doctor about the seeds and nuts thing, he told me it was BS and that regardless of what I ate I would get attacks every now and then, the inflammation in the gut wasn't particular to any type of food, I eat what the hell I want (three sesame seed bars for a buck fifty at least once a week) and once or twice a year have to sit on the can drinking as much water as I can get down. If anything dehydration is the real problem with it in my experience.