Permitted foods: All meats, fish (except herring), poultry, eggs, milk, yogurt, butter, margarine, cheese, one medium-size potato a day, small amounts of the following: cauliflower, cabbage, carrots, cucumber, lettuce, polished rice, flour (except whole grain), fresh fruits (except pears), marmalade/jam, coffee, wine, beer.

Prohibited foods: Canned foods, foods cooked in nickel-plated utensils, herring, oysters, asparagus, beans, mushrooms, onions, corn (maize), spinach, tomatoes, peas, whole grain flour, fresh and cooked pears, rhubarb, tea, cocoa and chocolate, baking powder.

Foods prefereably should be cooked in aluminum or stainless steel utensils or in utensils that give a negative test for nickel with dimethylglyoxime.

Nickel can be also present in hydrogenated fats and oils, tobacco smoke, and processed foods. Glass cookware is best for acidic foods, since even stainless steel cookware can contain nickel.

I wonder if simply chelating the nickel out by making sure of adequate absorption of zinc would be enough to correct the nickel problem. Zinc is known to chelate out metals, both of the "good" variety, like iron or copper, and the "bad" variety, as toxic heavy metals. Antabuse (disulfiram) is a nickel chelator.

Avoid: Beans, Buckwheat, Chocolate, Dried Fruit, Figs, Lettuce, Licorice, Linseed, Millet, Multigrain Breads, Nuts, Oats, Onions, Peas, Pineapple, Prunes, Raspberries, Salmon, Shellfish, Soy Powder, Spinach, Tea, Tomato, Wheat Bran or Wheat Bran Products.

Also avoid: all canned foods, foods cooked in nickel-plated utensils (including stainless steel, which contains nickel), herring, oysters, asparagus, beans, mushrooms, onions, corn, spinach, tomatoes, peas, whole grain flour, pears, rhubarb, tea, cocoa, chocolate, and baking powder.

Supplements that I think help: Flaxseed oil, zinc. Also, milk thistle & N-Acetyl-Cysteine for liver support (I also take additional vitamins and minerals but I don't think those help the DE specificaly)

My skin is clear -- until I break my diet, then I get small patches of blisters, when that happens taking flaxseed oil will reduce the blisters within hours. The last two times I had blisters I was able to get them healed up without the skin ever breaking. The roughness that remains after the blisters takes longer to completely clear.

I also cannot use lotions or creams containing aloe vera. I suspect aloe vera contains nickel. I don't know if it's in the raw plant or picked up in the commercial processing.

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Updated 11-24-2006