英女子對所有食物過敏 只靠米飯生存
A British woman who developed wide-ranging food allergies more than ten years ago has been forced to survive on a daily diet of rice. Micaela Stafford, 53, used to love fried breakfasts and roast dinners but her body now rejects any food that include dairy, gluten, wheat, sugars, oils and fats。
英國一名女子10年前患上大範圍食物過敏症，自此只能靠白米飯生存。據瞭解，現年53歲的米凱拉曾喜歡油炸類早餐和燒烤類晚餐，但是如今她的身體排斥包括奶製品、麩質品、小麥、糖類、油類及脂肪類的任何食物。
Dieticians, gastroenterologists and even neurologists have been baffled by Micaela's condition, which began in 1999 when she started getting headaches from dairy food. As the years passed, the foods she could no longer eat increased - to the point where only rice remains。
米凱拉的病發作於1999年，當時她一食用奶製品就頭疼，營養學家、胃腸病學家乃至神經系統專家被搞得焦頭爛額。隨着時間流逝，她不能食用的食物種類與日俱增——直到僅剩下了大米。
Micaela has been forced to stop eating meals out at restaurants because almost all restaurants use oils in their cooking - even when making rice. She takes a gas cooker, pots, pans and rice with her on days out so she can cook food on the move。
米凱拉因此不能在外就餐，因爲幾乎所有餐館做飯都會用油——甚至做米飯也會。於是她外出都會隨身攜帶着燃氣爐、鍋碗瓢盆和大米，走到哪兒做到哪兒。
If she eats something she shouldn't Micaela suffers prolonged migraines, horrendous sickness and diarrhea and joint pains all over her body. Micaela said: "If I have something I shouldn't, I have to go to bed for a week. My body shuts down."
而如果吃了不合適的東西，米凱拉便會長時間偏頭痛、嚴重噁心、腹瀉乃至全身關節痛。米凱拉稱：“如果吃了不該吃的東西，我就得臥牀一個禮拜。身體機能就會停止運轉。”
Medical experts fear she could suffer serious health problems as the illness, which has never been, diagnosed, prevents her from getting nutrients。
而醫生擔憂米凱拉會因這個罕見的疾病而無法攝入營養，引發嚴重的健康問題。
"I just want my life back. I do not want to live like this. I would do anything to be able to taste a curry again. And I miss ice cream and desserts so much. I just want something with flavor," said Micaela。
“我只想過正常生活。我不想這樣過日子。爲了嘗一下咖喱我不惜一切。我還懷念有冰激凌和甜點的日子。我只是想吃些有味道的東西，”米凱拉說道。
Micaela says the condition has ruined her life. She suffers from a constant lack of energy so much so that she had to give up her job in catering ten years ago. She is now practically housebound。
米凱拉稱這種疾病毀了她的生活。她身體持久乏力，不得不在10年前就放棄了餐飲承辦的工作。如今她幾乎足不出戶。
