Alergia al maíz - Corn allergy

Enlaces útiles acerca de alergias al maíz:

http://www.renaissanceallergist.com/


Artículo que describe el maíz como una fuente de alergia severa:
http://www.pollenlibrary.com/Specie/Zea+mays

http://www.cookingallergyfree.com/allergens/allergen_listing/corn_allergy

http://www.common-food-allergies.net/corn_allergy/corn_allergy.html

http://www.avoidingmilkprotein.com/cornallergy.htm

http://allergies.about.com/od/foodallergies/a/cornallergy.htm

http://www.allergicchild.com/corn_allergies.htm

http://www.vishniac.com/ephraim/corn.html


Tiene una lista de maíz y sus derivados - contains a list of corn products and derivatives:
http://www.cornallergens.com/

Síntomas:
http://cornallergysymptoms.com/

Productos - Products: (fuente: http://www.cornallergens.com/list/avoid-corn-products.php)

• Adesivos, papel que contiene pegamento (como "stickies"), sobres, sellos de correo, cinta adhesiva) - Adhesives and gummed papers (envelopes, stamps, stickers, tapes)
• Polvo de cuerpo (mejor usar talco) - Body powder
• Hojas de secadora - Bounce dryer sheets
• Aerosol para el aliento - Breath spray and candies
• Charcoal briquettes
• Pollo (usualmente usan ácido cítrico para matar la bacteria) - Chicken
• Café instantáneo - Coffee, instant
• Condimentos (mostaza, mayonesa, salsas, adobos) - Condiments (mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup)
• Líquido para desinfectar y limpiar lentes de contacto - Contact lens solutions
• Cremas (cualquier crema.) - Cream
• Productos Lácteos (quesos, crema ágria, queso guayado) - Dairy products (cottage cheese, cheese, sour cream)
• Dental fillings and cements (read the Material Safety Data sheets at http://dental.securesites.com/)
• Frutas frescas (pueden estar roseado con una cera, derivada del maíz.  Lavarlo con Vel y bicarbonato de sodio, con una esponja de metal.). - Fresh fruit/vegetables that are coated with wax (which can be derived from corn)
• Frutas congeladas (moras, etc.) - Frozen fruit (blueberries, cranberries)
• Vegetales congelados (especialmente si dice que tiene una salsa ("sauce") - Frozen vegetables
• Productos de cabello, especialmente fijador de pelo, gels, etc. - Hair products (spray, mousse and gels)
• Lociones, inclusive los que contienen vitamina e.  - Lotion (including those that contain Vitamin E)
• Mantequilla sin sal, si dice "sabores naturals"  - Salt-free butter, if it says "natural flavors or flavorings"
• Margarina - Margarine
• Embutidos- Meat products (hot dogs, sausage)
• Leche, algunas marcas  - Milk – some brands (it could be the container; organic is safest)
• Jugo de china (Yo puedo tolerar jugo de china Minute Maid congelado) - Orange juice
• Envases de papel (cajas, vasos, platos) - Paper containers (boxes, cups, plates)
• Mantequilla de maní - Peanut butter
• Pesticidas en polvo - Pesticide powders
• Pepinillos en salmueras- Pickles
• Plastic containers (food containers, cups, plates)
• Carne de cerdo- Pork
• Arroz, enriquecido con vitaminas y minerales. - Rice, enriched (some brands only, e.g. Riceland)
• Queso ricotta- Ricotta cheese
• Aderezos para ensaladas. -Salad dressings
• Jabón y detergente de fregar (Yo uso Vel) Soaps and dishwashing detergents
• Suntan lotions
• Té (el té puede que venga en un sobrecito que está hecho de papel que contiene maíz)- Teas (the tea bag may contain corn)
• Tomates y productos de tomates (busca que los ingredientes diga sólo "tomate" - Tomato products (look for  "tomato paste" as the ingredient.  Citric acid may be derived from corn.)
• Toothpaste-Pasta de dientes
• Atún enlatado (el caldo vegetal o la sal puede que tenga algún derivado de maíz) - Tuna fish (vegetable broth or salt may contain corn)
• Alimentos para mascotas y otros animales, bocados (bocadillos) para perros, alimento para caballos. - Pet and animal foods, dog treats, horse feed, etc.

Esta lista está incompleta, como podrán notar, aún no está todo traducido y está obviamente, incompleto. Gracias a todos/as por sus sugerencias y comentarios (del foro Evitando el Maíz-Avoiding Corn).

Día Nacional de la Oración

National Day of Prayer

Start:

May 5, '11 07:00am

"I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Psalm 91:2

http://nationaldayofprayer.org/

Los Derechos del Hombre

"Los derechos del hombre no provienen de la generosidad del estado,

sino de la mano de Dios."

-- John F. Kennedy, Presidente E.E.U.U.

Comprar Carnes en Carolina...

Comprar buena carne en Carolina ya no es fácil desde que Pueblo Xtra cerró.  Pueblo tenía sobre 40 tiendas en Puerto Rico hasta que Wal Mart llegó a cortarle el yugular.  Y lo logró.

Hace unos años el dueño de Holsum compró Pueblo y abrió unas cuantas tiendas en Puerto Rico, pero esto le estuvo malísimo a Wal Mart y de nuevo, usando su economía de escala, logró que no prosperara y ahora sólo quedan dos tiendas, me dicen, uno en Trujillo Alto y el otro en Condado.

Econo ahora tiene el local donde estaba Pueblo Xtra en Plaza Carolina, pero la carne ahí no sirve.  Es repugnante.  La carne que vende Wal Mart tampoco es buena.  Voy a uno de las dos tiendas de Pueblo que  aún quedan a ver qué encuentro.

  

Francamente...

Odio, odio, ODIO oir tiros cerca de mi casa.  Vivo cerca de un residencial, antes conocidos como "caseríos."  Y me preocupa oir tiros.  Empiezo a imaginarme un loco disparando tiros al aire, o que está probando un revolver antes de comprarlo.

Me imagino que alguien está huyendo, para salvar su vida, que hay madres y padres temerosos por sus hijos.

Y el gobierno no puede hacer nada, porque le quitó autoridad a los maestros, y decidieron que Dios, nuestro amado Redentor, no tiene lugar en las escuelas.  Por cierto, quieren enseñar valores, pero valores sin un estándar son ideas y palabras vacías, como un mantra, totalmente sin sentido.

Puerto Rico necesita a Jesucristo.

    

Tapete en crochet- crochet doily

Este es el tapete que terminé hoy, sólo falta esconder el hilo y darle una planchadita.

Temblor de Noche Buena

Se dice que fue 5.4 en la Escala Richter.  Yo pensé que era mi hijo que estaba a punto de sacar el carro de la marquesina, y que había impactado la puerta corrediza de cristal. 

Aquí la gente empezó enseguida a comentarlo y salieron a la calle.  Tito dice que no se va a hablar de más nada por las próximas 6 horas.

Bueno, en mi opinión, "Hasta aquí nos ayudó Jehová."

Unos links para que te prepares por si las moscas:

Prepárate PR (preparatepr.com)
http://www.gobierno.pr/AEMEAD/Inicio/Portal_Educativo.htm

El Día Menos Pensado
http://eldiamenospensado.com/

En Paz, por Amado Nervo

En Paz

Muy cerca de mi ocaso, yo te bendigo, Vida,
porque nunca me diste ni esperanza fallida,
ni trabajos injustos, ni pena inmerecida;

Porque veo al final de mi rudo camino
que yo fui el arquitecto de mi propio destino;
que si extraje la mieles o la hiel de las cosas,
fue porque en ellas puse hiel o mieles sabrosas:
cuando planté rosales coseché siempre rosas.

...Cierto, a mis lozanías va a seguir el invierno:
¡mas tú no me dijiste que mayo fuese eterno!

Hallé sin duda largas las noches de mis penas;
mas no me prometiste tan sólo noches buenas;
y en cambio tuve algunas santamente serenas...

Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.
¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!

Un Vicio

Un vicio típico de la política americana es el evitar decir algo real acerca de los asuntos reales.

Presidente Teodoro Roosevelt

My Friday... Mi viernes

I spent the strangest evening ever...  After hearing what the policeman told me, the EMT, neighbors, and what I myself witnessed, here is what happened.

The suspect was hanging around a gas station on Avenida 65 de Infantería.

He watched a young female, and when she turned to pay for gas, he jumped in the car and left.

The lady sounded the alarm, and someone, perhaps the gas station attendant or the same young woman called the police, who were immediately on his tail.

He didn't know that there was a 1-year-old baby girl in the back seat.

Some time after 6 PM, perhaps close to 6:30, I heard some car tires screeching very close to my home.  I heard a crashing sound like it was that same car, heard more car tires screeching and suddenly saw a white car speeding down my street.

My street is a dead-end street, and it's obviously the person isn't from these parts because he didin't know this and crashed into a fence that is at the end of the street.  This street ends in a sort of turn, and then a fence, to protect people from a creek about 20 feet or less from the end.

A few seconds after seeing that car screeching down my street, and btw, if my daughter had still been home, her car would have been parked out in front and he would have careened into it, that's how fast he was going, I counted at least 15 police cars going after him.

Shortly after stopping my counting police cars at patrol car number 20, I think it was, along with unmarked police cars, the whole street, which is really a short street, was swarming with police officers, National Guardsmen and the SWAT team.  They were searching each carport, checking out the rooftops and looking for the suspect, who had abandoned the car and taken off towards the creek.

It has been raining a lot this whole summer and also this past week, so the creek had risen and the current was dangerous enough to pull anybody into it.  

By this time, I am seeing a police helicopter hovering overhead, so I know the person has not been caught. 

 

The SWAT team entered my little property and searched the back yard (the creek is behind it) and the roof, and even the side of the house, because there is an area where a person can hide, plus the tree house. They are checking each house that has the creek behind it because the obvious conclusion is that the suspect is in one of our back yards since he can't cross the creek.

They declare it "Clear!" and leave, admonishing me to keep everything locked up and not to open up for anybody.  I'm alone because Son #2 had gone to pick his father up from work, and Eddie was recording a guitar for some music production, I think. So, I'm alone and somewhat rattled by this whole thing.

I called Eddie, who said he would be home as soon as possible.  When he actually gets here, he doesn't.  I saw my car go  to the end of the street instead of into the carport, so I'm sure that the boys, (Son and friends) are curious about the abandoned car and want to see it.  Eddie comes in shortly afterward.  I see a police tow truck drive to the end of the street.

The boys return to our house, talking about the whole thing, because, of course, their friends and neighbors who live in this street kept them abreast of everything.  The car is now on a flatbed almost in front of my house.  Eddie took a picture, but you can't see it very well.  We keep on talking and exclaiming over the whole thing, and things start to quiet down when I hear a voice, coming from THE SIDE OF MY HOUSE.  The only way you can reach that window is if you come either from the roof or from the back yard, and you will recall that behind my yard is a sort of slope and then a few feet down is the creek.  Anybody can, slowly, hop over the chain link fence and get into my yard, or they can access this window from the roof.  We have Spanish-style roofs, flat, the houses are close together, so someone can hop from roof to roof and reach here, which seems to be the obvious thing that happened, since the next house is a two story, and has chain link fencing all around on the top.  

We hear a voice saying something like, Family, good evening!  Could you please help me!  At which time I panicked because I didn't know if the man was armed or not.  We were in the carport, and I think he must have seen the lights in the living room or my bedroom, and thought to take a chance. Eddie tried to engage him while the boys sneaked out and ran to the end of the street to get the cops.  A few seconds later they arrived, but they were too late.  The suspect had hopped over the fence to Edwin's back yard, then over his fence to Gloria's yard and on to a field.  If the cops don't get him soon, he's gone because eventually that field has access to the creek, which eventually ends up on 65th Avenue, and his getaway is assured.

I later find out that he was trying to get my husband to let him make a phone call to his mother, so he said, so she could come and pick him up.  He implored Eddie NOT to call the police, and Eddie agreed not to call, knowing that I had them on my cell phone.  He then tells Eddie to tell his wife not to call, at which Eddie calls out, "Don't call the police!" but I never heard, and Eddie was trying to tell him to give himself up, to which he replied, "I can't give myself up, I can't I can't!!".  When he realized that the police had been brought in, that's when he ran away.

So, the police again went through my carport, to the back, but couldn't reach him on time, I had called 9-1-1 and told them that the carjacker was here, and I only saw TWO police squad cars come to our street.  It's a pity, because if they had had the back-up they needed, they could have secured the perimeter and apprehended the suspect.

We stayed sort of huddled together, talking about this, neighbors came and we found out that the police had been searching for a brown SUV, but a smart policewoman had said, forget the description of the car, look up the tags, found out it was WHITE and then the chase really began.

At 11 PM, we watched the news:  "This evening, an automobile was carjacked from a gas station on 65th Avenue, and a baby girl was in the back seat.  The police gave chase and the suspect abandoned the car, fleeing into a field.  The baby was recovered with no injuries."

That was the news coverage.  

My night ended by making hamburgers for the guys and serving them water and potato salad, and trying to relax.