No it's not that I don't like it I'm allergic!

[mrsklamc]

Years ago someone told me they were allergic to lettuce. I certainly wasn't going to try and force feed it to them, but I always wondered if it were actually possible....is there anything IN lettuce to be allergic to?

 

[Imzadi]

Years ago someone told me they were allergic to lettuce. I certainly wasn't going to try and force feed it to them, but I always wondered if it were actually possible....is there anything IN lettuce to be allergic to?

I became allergic to raw watermelon as a teen. Before I found out I have Oral Allergy Syndrome, I also thought, what the heck can there be in watermelon to be allergic to? It's basically pink water!

Those fruit salads that hotels usually have for free "Continental Breakfasts" are something I can't eat either. No more melons of any kind.

I can eat lettuce. But having a salad is hard as there are so many veggies I can't eat raw. And one farmer's market near me, that has some of the cheapest, fresh Mesclun Mix of salad greens, adds some herb to the mix that I am allergic to, so I can't buy theirs.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

I didn't know these were related as allergens! I tested positive for latex, avocado, and zucchini. However, bananas, pistachios, mangos and kiwi all give me severe stomach pain. I am not allergic to penicillin, but my Dad was.

Avocado is also in the latex family. I'm allergic to that too, but that doesn't stop me from eating guacamole. Mine all appear (so far) to be sensitivities rather than full-blown allergies. I can have stuff that has touched cashews etc. and be fine. Cashews, pistachios, and latex cause the strongest reactions. I am also allergic to all -caine external analgesics (lidocaine, benzocaine, novocaine).

 

[2012DisneyWorldBride]

My DH is allergic to raw apples and cherries but he can eat cooked apples... Don't know what it is in raw apples only... We thought maybe pectin?

 

[bdcp]

I'm allergic to shrimp and I don't eat any shellfish/seafood just in case. Not worth getting sick over. As for lettuce allergies, perfectly possible. You can be allergic to anything. The fact is, name anything and someone is allergic to it. Some allergies are worse than others, but even one like mine that is gastrointestinal can turn anaphylactic at anytime.

 

[Imzadi]

My DH is allergic to raw apples and cherries but he can eat cooked apples... Don't know what it is in raw apples only... We thought maybe pectin?

Read the posts above regarding: Oral Allergy Syndrome & protein/enzymes.

 

[Poohforyou]

She puts it in stuff to test my allergy. Or maybe she just forgets.........for a long time I thought I just didn't like it. My mouth would get numb with small amounts. Then once I threw up I asked my doctor. He sent me for tests and yep allergic. I have a severe penicillin allergy. I stopped breathing the one time it was given to me.

She will also tell me to just scrap it off when she puts it on top of things (melted)

I feel for the adults that develop allergies too because people think you are faking. That you just don't want to eat it. Usually throwing up on the table is enough to get them to believe!

That is completely not cool that your mother does that. I hate mushrooms to the point that I have gagged from having them in stuff. People tell me to just scrape them off but I can still taste them so that's why I say I'm allergic.

 

[EMom]

I have a true allergy to shellfish and carry an Epipen for that. The other thing I cannot eat is horseradish. I googled it and others have the same experience. If I eat horseradish, within minutes to a few hours, I will get Linda Blair Exorcist projectile vomiting. For hours on end. And then I can barely function the next day. Even when I am unaware I am eating horseradish, this happens. So I suppose it is a strong intolerance rather than a true allergy. But I tell chefs it is an allergy because any food that puts me out of commission for 12-24 hours is a food I do not need to eat.

 

[mom2girls1974]

My youngest has Celiac (NOT a allergy of course but a life time of not eating Gluten) and a allergy to dairy. She because of the Celiac has not had any tests show the dairy allergy, she has had a scratch test and a RAST test and both showed negative, but the one time she was given it on purpose she blew up like a balloon with at least 25 hives on her face and in her mouth and the two cross contaminations she has had (from food being handled before hers was made then hands not washed) she has had numerous hives on her face and arms. Her pediatrician says she could have anaplaxys if she actually ate it (the test we did she had it put on the outside of her lip for 15 seconds!) so she has a Epipen and we carry Benadryl at all times as well.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Read the posts above regarding: Oral Allergy Syndrome & protein/enzymes.

I just googled oral allergy syndrome and that is exactly what I have. My mouth and ears itch like crazy. Sometimes at the height of cedar season my mouth and ears will itch too without even eating anything.

I've only been officially tested for allergies to latex, sulfa and -caine drugs. But I told my doctor that cashews, kiwi, and avocado made my mouth itch and he said yes, since I have a latex allergy I was very likely allergic to those things and others. I tried mango once just to see if I had the reaction and I did. Then just this past Christmas I tried some Indian candy made with pistachios and boy was that a mistake! I have been told that they are sensitivities because my throat does not close up and I have been able to eat fruit that has touched mangos and kiwi, but I didn't know there was a real name for it.

 

[heathere3]

To the OP, I'm so sorry, and I empathize. I'm allergic (technically severely intolerant) to peppers (the veggie, not the spice) and certain types of mushrooms.
I have caught my mother more than once feeding me something with visible peppers and denying it. Soooo frustrating!
But where it got scary was when she fed my extremely peanut allergic niece peanut butter cookies. Maddie doesn't know what pb tastes like, but she sure as hell knew what was going on when her throat started closing up. At 9 years of age she used her epipen on herself and called 911! Mom actually told the paramedics "Well that's how I cured my daughter's allergies"! That explained so much of my childhood... My poor sister had to decide whether or not to press charges. Needless to say, mom never gets to see her granddaughter unsupervised anymore
A large part of why we love Disney so much is because of how fantastic they are at handling food allergies.

 

[mhsjax]

I lie and say my kid is allergic to something he isn't. As an infant my kid had a reaction to an antibiotic that was severe enough that he burned his upper airway, leading to a year on a feeding tube and a lifetime on lung issues. Technically the reaction was an "intolerance" because his immune system wasn't involved, but I just say he's allergic so there's no chance he'll be given it again.

Same here. I could go into a very long explanation that ends with a "well we aren't really sure where to draw the line" Or I could simply say that he screams for about 2 hours like someone is ripping his insides out and then for the next 3 hours he throws up everything and then starts throwing up bile and it burns his esophagus, but that is really a little too graphic. So I just say he is allergic.

I guess, according to one poster, we are "jerks".

 

[EMom]

Same here. I could go into a very long explanation that ends with a "well we aren't really sure where to draw the line" Or I could simply say that he screams for about 2 hours like someone is ripping his insides out and then for the next 3 hours he throws up everything and then starts throwing up bile and it burns his esophagus, but that is really a little too graphic. So I just say he is allergic.

I guess, according to one poster, we are "jerks".

That's me with horseradish. The vomiting goes on until bile is coming up and that's a long way from, "It nauseates me." I ache the next day from barfing up so violently. Allergy? Bad reaction? Whatever......I'm not chancing eating that stuff.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I have a true allergy to shellfish and carry an Epipen for that. The other thing I cannot eat is horseradish. I googled it and others have the same experience. If I eat horseradish, within minutes to a few hours, I will get Linda Blair Exorcist projectile vomiting. For hours on end. And then I can barely function the next day. Even when I am unaware I am eating horseradish, this happens. So I suppose it is a strong intolerance rather than a true allergy. But I tell chefs it is an allergy because any food that puts me out of commission for 12-24 hours is a food I do not need to eat.

DS12 is like that with some fruit juices.
He can have lemonade and orange juice but no more than once a week. If it were apple juice, apple cider or grape juice he'd vomit almost immediately and it doesn't stop. But he can eat apples and grapes til the cows come home. We think it might be in the pasteurization process of the juice.
I think the last time he had any kind of apple juice was 9 or 10 years ago. He asks me all the time if he should try it and see if he still gets sick but he changes his mind at the last minute.
He's also allergic to hand sanitizer, wool, and synthetic fabrics, he breaks out in hives and then the hives split open and ooze. Hand sanitizer is the worst because the school he used to go to, forced it on every kid. The teachers didn't believe us until he practically shoved oozing hands in their faces.

DH is allergic to ampicillin but he can eat blue cheese. He does avoid all other -cillins though because we don't know if he'd have a bad reaction. When DH had ampicillin when he was a kid he developed blisters then his skin fell off. He ended up staying indoors in a dark room for 4 months until his skin heeled.
I make sure to sanitize the area if the kids ever are on amoxicillin and we have one specific shelf in the fridge it goes in. No other food goes there unless the shelf has been sanitized. DH swiped a drop off the counter one day and woke up with a big blister on the tip of his finger so we are very cautious.

My mom is allergic to dairy. It started out as stomach cramps and gas but now it's a full blown doubled over in pain, can't leave a bathroom for 3-4 days kind of allergy. No butter, cheese, milk, chocolate, whey, etc. When she was little she would feel crummy after having milk but her allergy didn't really kick in until about 4-5 years ago.

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[disfan07]

DS12 is like that with some fruit juices.
He can have lemonade and orange juice but no more than once a week. If it were apple juice, apple cider or grape juice he'd vomit almost immediately and it doesn't stop. But he can eat apples and grapes til the cows come home. We think it might be in the pasteurization process of the juice.
I think the last time he had any kind of apple juice was 9 or 10 years ago. He asks me all the time if he should try it and see if he still gets sick but he changes his mind at the last minute.
He's also allergic to hand sanitizer, wool, and synthetic fabrics, he breaks out in hives and then the hives split open and ooze. Hand sanitizer is the worst because the school he used to go to, forced it on every kid. The teachers didn't believe us until he practically shoved oozing hands in their faces.

DH is allergic to ampicillin but he can eat blue cheese. He does avoid all other -cillins though because we don't know if he'd have a bad reaction. When DH had ampicillin when he was a kid he developed blisters then his skin fell off. He ended up staying indoors in a dark room for 4 months until his skin heeled.
I make sure to sanitize the area if the kids ever are on amoxicillin and we have one specific shelf in the fridge it goes in. No other food goes there unless the shelf has been sanitized. DH swiped a drop off the counter one day and woke up with a big blister on the tip of his finger so we are very cautious.

My mom is allergic to dairy. It started out as stomach cramps and gas but now it's a full blown doubled over in pain, can't leave a bathroom for 3-4 days kind of allergy. No butter, cheese, milk, chocolate, whey, etc. When she was little she would feel crummy after having milk but her allergy didn't really kick in until about 4-5 years ago.

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Has your son ever had chemical patch testing done? If he's allergic to wool, he probably has a lanolin allergy which could explain the hand sanitizer and synthetic fabric allergies as well.

I am severely allergic to lanolin and parabens. I am also mildly allergic to sodium benzoate. All discovered by patch testing. We decided to do patch testing because all eczema medications I was being prescribed at the time would make things much much worse....turns out they all had lanolin and/or parabens in them

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I usually eat less than 20g of carbs a day. Occasionally I'll go crazy and eat carbs (like right now). I pay for this in the form of constant pain. When I get tired of being in pain, I go back to eating my regular diet.

I don't ask for accomodations anywhere - I can find items and adjust foods that are on menus to suit me perfectly well with very minimal fuss. It's just not a big deal to me.

I just don't get why people seem to think it's any of their business what I put in my mouth or what I will or will not eat. If I'm eating carbs I'm in pain, if I'm not eating carbs I'm not in pain. That's my business, it is not anyone else's business.

And yes, a carb is a carb is a carb to me. If it has a carb on the back on the box, I don't care if it's fiber. And yes, I know when you were on a low carb diet you got 30 to 50 carbs a meal, I'm on a very different type of diet. No, it doesn't matter if they are complex carbs. Finally, why are we even discussing this? I said your cake/bread/vegetable/random other item looked lovely, I'm sure it tastes delightful. I'm still not eating any.

I don't tell other people what to put into their mouths. Don't tell me what to put into mine!

 

[java]

To the OP, I'm so sorry, and I empathize. I'm allergic (technically severely intolerant) to peppers (the veggie, not the spice) and certain types of mushrooms.
I have caught my mother more than once feeding me something with visible peppers and denying it. Soooo frustrating!
But where it got scary was when she fed my extremely peanut allergic niece peanut butter cookies. Maddie doesn't know what pb tastes like, but she sure as hell knew what was going on when her throat started closing up. At 9 years of age she used her epipen on herself and called 911! Mom actually told the paramedics "Well that's how I cured my daughter's allergies"! That explained so much of my childhood... My poor sister had to decide whether or not to press charges. Needless to say, mom never gets to see her granddaughter unsupervised anymore
A large part of why we love Disney so much is because of how fantastic they are at handling food allergies.

That's terrible. I'm so sorry. At least I am an adult but to do it to a child. Maybe it's a generational thing because allergies were not as prevalent then? Whatever it is I don't like it.

 

[Hoodie]

Latex, kiwi, mangos, cashews, pistachios, and bananas are all related. I have that allergy (bananas unconfirmed) and also sulfa drugs.

Yup - I've been allergic to bananas since infancy. DS2 inherited that, which is annoying. I can't have anything with them. Thankfully I'm only "sensitive" to latex (causes itching). I just don't like kiwi. Another thing on that list - the adhesive in bandaids. That I react to. If I ever need a bandage the area where the sticky part is always looks 10 times worse than the actual injury and it lasts for days after I remove it, even if it was only on for a short time.

Another sulfa drug allergy here as well.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Yup - I've been allergic to bananas since infancy. DS2 inherited that, which is annoying. I can't have anything with them. Thankfully I'm only "sensitive" to latex (causes itching). I just don't like kiwi. Another thing on that list - the adhesive in bandaids. That I react to. If I ever need a bandage the area where the sticky part is always looks 10 times worse than the actual injury and it lasts for days after I remove it, even if it was only on for a short time.

Another sulfa drug allergy here as well.

Make sure you get latex-free bandaids! After reading about latex-fruit oral allergy syndrome everything makes sense. That explains why I can eat banana bread with no problem. I hate raw bananas but now I wonder if I had a reaction to them as a child and couldn't really explain it that's why I have always not liked them.

 

[kkandaj]

I think it's one thing to say you're allergic when you have true reactions--whether they be immediate anaphylactic reactions or 4 hour later gut reactions.

I think saying you're allergic because you don't like something is an entirely different subject--and one of the reasons the allergy world isn't taken seriously. It's no different than faking you need a GAC at WDW when you really don't.

DS has life threatening reactions to egg, dairy and soy (ER trips/hospitalizations) and has tested so high for peanut and tree nuts that the allergist won't even let us trial them.

He starts kindergarten this fall and it terrifies me to think of someone slipping something in his food to "test" him. This is my worst nightmare! He would have to be epi'ed immediately (which is why he carries his epipen on him at all times). We also have a strict "no food if its not sent by mom or dad" rule.