Bloody f*cking food allergies D or D?

I used to get sick if I ate eggs, or peppers, or guacomole, but that was a stomach thing and so I don't know if that can actually be termed "allergy".

My dad almost died after drinking some orange crush - so you gotta be careful man! No food allergy complacency here!

I'll say dud... the worst is going home to NJ & ordering a latte after dinner, forgetting that for some reason most restaurants there put cinnamon all over the top of the foam. Then I feel like a dork asking for another w/o the cinnamon, but I'm really allergic to it. I miss cinnamon in backed apples & cinnamon sugar toast, but the last time I had it, my throat swelled up... not fun.

Luckily I only really seem to get a big reaction if I consume large quantities of celery though.

Isn't this the whole concept of allergy shots? Gradually increase your dosage so that you can tolerage small amounts of the things you are allergic to. (I might be completely misinformed on this topic tho)

Of course, then there is a barrier. I think I had allergy shots for 10 years, then suddenly at age 17, my shots caused me to have an asthma attack.

So why have our immune systems suddenly gone haywire? One theory notes that we (mostly) eradicated hookworms by the 1980s in the United States. And tapeworms. All the classic parasites are mostly kaput. Without those actual threats, our immune system downshifts to tackle the biggest possible threat on the horizon. Which, these days, might be cashew butter or Camembert.

“It’s looking for stuff to do and it’s staying busy,” Warren said. “But it’s busy doing stupid stuff like reacting to walnuts and birch pollen.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/08/real-reasons-food-allergies-are-rise/

Or "dyspepsia," which was much more common in the old days then it is now, was often actually food allergies.

I ate an apple. AN APPLE. yesterday and immediately got horrible congestion and phlegm. You know what a steak doesn't do? Give me a stomach ache and an allergic reaction.

I think I remember you saying you suffer from IBS as well, in orbit? I've been toying with starting a thread for those of us afflicted.

Either way, solidarity - it's such a bummer when foods everyone categorises as healthy set you off. And if you ask me our bodies need to stop thinking of phlegm as the solution to everything.

wow that's a really interesting link from Scott upthread there.

I was just getting blood drawn yesterday and there was some ad in the waiting room about a rise in sesame allergies!

Not IBS but I'm gluten-intolerant and also all soy products and many legumes make me various degrees of sick so food is super fun! Amazingly I still love food and cooking and eating. It's just a smaller world for me.

Enough with the phlegm already, bodies. You're stuck in the stone age, I don't need to encapsulate irritants in mucous, I need to be able to eat food that's sold in bodegas everywhere besides potato chips and Doritos.

i developed an allergy to stone fruits and apples at some point, get a real scratchy throat and breathing problems unless i cut strategically around the core.

I have a mildish avocado allergy where the roof of my mouth & tongue will get itchy
But I still eat it anyway, just not all the time