Food Allergies

[XDurionX]

How do people get diagnosed with this issue ? What about those who are borderline?

IgE and IgG antibody tests.

[cubby]

Celiac disease


No wheat, barley, rye, oats, or malt. Or anything that might have touched any of those, or been prepared in the same space/using the same tools as any of those without thorough cleaning.

So basically I can't safely eat anything produced in restaurants or at fast food chains.

My son has that - was just diagnosed about a year ago. Little bit tough (to say the least) but very manageable (not taking away from the pain of it though). Just as an aside, Wendy's (if you have them near you) does some decent gluten free baked potato - and then tack on a Frosty and it's pretty freaking good. That's what he does. I happen to love them, too, so I might be biased.

[Symphonic]

I put non-food allergy. Since I was about 10 when we moved from Colorado to Utah, pretty much as soon as we crossed the border I remember sneezing, and then it started. I was eventually tested for allergies around 12-13, and found I was allergic to every type of grass, and pretty much every tree.

That's the extent of my allergies, but it's really terrible around spring.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Most fresh vegetables and fruits. It's a small allergy, related to birch trees, but it's still there. Nothing dangerous, though.

Then I have every nuts including peanuts, almonds, and hazelnuts. I also used to have soy, although it seems to have vanished away both medically and from experience (though I won't try tofu, that seems like tempting the devil). Oh, and sesame seeds.

Medically speaking, I'm allergic to penicillin, but I think it's the only allergy I have in that domain.

Thankfully, no allergies to dairy, eggs or sea products.

Yes, I eat very well. You learn the tricks and when you can cook, it's mostly about reading the sticker on the food you buy. Plus, with products like sunbutter, we tend to have a lot of variety in our food.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Onion intolerant if someone puts onions on my food after I ask them not to it causes me to smile and want to stab them in the face.

Also bread and milk seem to cause me issues sometimes.

[Crissi]

Im lucky in that there's nothing im allergic to food wise. If I ever develop a chocolate allergy though, Im committing suicide through allergic reactions cause Im damn sure not giving it up.

[Pendulous]

I have none, but when I was three years old, I had an allergic reaction to something and almost died. I've been told it was the red dye in Kool-Aid. I don't even know if that's possible or what, but that's all I've ever been told.

[Altrec]

When I was young lamb would make me break out in hives, but now I can eat it without any issues.

[XDurionX]

Then I have every nuts including peanuts, almonds, and hazelnuts.

Peanuts aren't nuts though, despite the name they're legumes. Strawberries , on the other hand, ARE nuts and not berries. This is quite important to keep in mind as an allergic.

[Crissi]

Peanuts aren't nuts though, despite the name they're legumes. Strawberries , on the other hand, ARE nuts and not berries. This is quite important to keep in mind as an allergic.

I took a plants and society course in college. SO many weirdly labeled plants and fruit and nuts...

also, required mention of "Pizza is healthy because tomato is a vegetable" bullshit lol

[Symphonic]

Speaking of death-by-allergy, I was getting allergy shots for my grass/tree allergies, and had been doing it for 3 YEARS. It's always the same, go in, get the shot, wait 15 minutes, go home. They gradually build up the dosage in the shot, stay at a peak level for a while, and then start over. I was 16, and at the peak level, 3 years in. My dad was with me. We waited the 15 minutes and everything seemed fine. My dad was like, alright, we can go! For some reason I wanted to wait just a couple more minutes. It was weird, because I felt fine. But then within the next minute I was having trouble breathing. We got the doctor, he tested my lung capacity and I failed the test, couldn't do it at all. They laid me down, checked my blood pressure, which was dropping fast. They gave me oxygen. They told my dad to call my mom, they weren't sure I would make it. They gave me two adrenaline shots. And then I started to come out of it.

Anaphylactic shock has no gray area. You either live through it, or you die from it. I was very fortunate to survive that allergic reaction. Needless to say, they won't let me get allergy shots anymore.

So I didn't get to finish my course and while I think my allergies have somewhat been better, they definitely aren't gone. So that's annoying and frustrating.

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Peanuts aren't nuts though, despite the name they're legumes. Strawberries , on the other hand, ARE nuts and not berries. This is quite important to keep in mind as an allergic.

Technically isn't it the little seeds on strawberries that are nuts? The actual strawberry is still a berry?

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Peanuts aren't nuts though, despite the name they're legumes. Strawberries , on the other hand, ARE nuts and not berries. This is quite important to keep in mind as an allergic.

The odd thing here is that I'm not allergic to Strawberries, one of the rare fruit I can safely eat "raw". Peanuts, on the other hand, are mortal.

[XDurionX]

Technically isn't it the little seeds on strawberries that are nuts? The actual strawberry is still a berry?

Yes, the little seeds are the nuts, but the actual fruit is a pseudofruit and not a berry. It's quite similar with raspberries, but the seeds are not nuts but stones(?) don't know the english term, i'm no biologist.

[Deleted]

Peanuts aren't nuts though, despite the name they're legumes. Strawberries , on the other hand, ARE nuts and not berries. This is quite important to keep in mind as an allergic.

I always view them as and casually call them nuts. And I am someone who is "eat them and possibly die"-allergic to them.

[XDurionX]

I always view them as and casually call them nuts. And I am someone who is "eat them and possibly die"-allergic to them.

I never said there is no peanut allergy, there is, but it's not a nut allergy; someone who is allergic to nuts doesn't have to be allergic to peanuts and vice versa.

[Crissi]

I am allergic to willow tress apparantly.

Also, I randomly swell / get red at amusement parks (and 1 time at the airport and 1 time at a football stadium). I can only assume this has somehting to do with a type of fabric that I still cant identify

[zEmini]

I am allergic to bad food.

[Molis]

No allergies.

I am genetically superior.

[Azadina]

I am allergic to willow tress apparantly.

Also, I randomly swell / get red at amusement parks (and 1 time at the airport and 1 time at a football stadium). I can only assume this has somehting to do with a type of fabric that I still cant identify

Since those are crowded public places, I'd guess it's someone's perfume. Some very specific brand.

[Cerilis]

Not that I know of. I hate garlic though, so maybe I am a secret vampire. Would explain the sparkles too.