I’m just allergic to life. I’m sensitive to a lot of food, but I wouldn’t quite say allergic. Diet sodas make give me uncontrollable tremors, though (I found this out one night at like 3 in the morning when I was the only one in my home – family was out of town and boyfriend was elsewhere. It was terrible). I think most of my allergy stuff is more of a reaction to airborne things. Terrible stuff. I basically just suffer through it.

I hope you feel better! I feel for you!

AWW I’m sorry to hear that Mimz-that sounds terrible!!

Digme-that’s crazy you get tremours from soda? Must be the aspertame or something?

The only thing I’m allergic to is perfumes (though I bought one you guys recommended in my other thread and smelled the opening today and didn’t die, so maybe it’s only most perfumes!!) and strong smells. Just gives me naseau with a strong headache and a tingle in the back of my throat. It will not go away in the presense of the smell, ie if some lady spritz’s me while I walk through a department store, and usually not until I’ve slept overnight.

My skin on the other hand is pretty sensitve, and if I’m really anxious or upset I’ll get a hive. At one point I broke out in feroscious hives everytime I ran (was on the track team) but I grew out of it I guess.

‘lergic to everything here. from animals (yes, boston), and her hay, all outdoorsey things, laundry detergent and fabric softener, certain shampoos, you name it and yes—food.

raw pork and chicken (handling it causes rashes, breathing it in, causes me to well, stop, breathing), and basically all fruit. some worse than others. makes my throat get tight and ears get itchy when i eat it. some are so bad (like watermelon) that i can’t even breath around it. some days and some fruits are worse than others and this allergy developed around middle school or so.

i can’t say i’ve ever got a headache from an allergy, although i’ve had some unexplained headaches recently and maybe allergies are why? hmm….

sorry you are suffering mimz, wish i could help more! but taking some tylenol and laying down is probably your best bet!

Wow, allenj, I can’t imagine being allergic to fruit! Have you always been? I’ve never really heard of fruit allergies until today… someone earlier told me that her room mates are allergic to guacamole because of the avocado. I still don’t believe avocados are fruit… they’re so weird!

K&K – I’m pretty sure it was the aspartame. I only had one can of diet coke with some snacks and the tremors happened a few hours later. I wouldn’t normally drink diet sodas anyway, or Coke in general, but it’s all my friend had in her new apartment. Crazy stuff. At least I know now and it happened during the night.

It’s quite common to have intolerance to fruits and veggies/ especially kids. It’s due to natural food chemicals Salicylates and Amines. They cause all sorts of reactions in people. It baffles some parents when they give kids a healthy diet with lots of fruit and veg and yet they have all these health problems.

An antidote some find useful to help with reactions to foods is a calcium carbonate tablet of 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda in water. Calcium carb is in most chewable antacid tablets but beware of added colours of flavours in these as they can cause reactions too. Antidote for intolerances though, not true food allergies.
MM, lime is high in salicylates and amines but it might be the fructose you react to if sugars are a problem.
Hope you’re feeling better.

Wow, that is crazy! i hope you are feeling better. Must be a pain to have to deal with.

When I was working at the cooking school we would get students with all kinds of strange allergies: carrots, wheat – quite common, sugar.

My mom is allergic to avocados and lobster – which she will still eat on her birthday. They cause her palms to itch to the point she will scratch them raw – weird, hu?

aspartame is scary stuff any way.

aw i am so sorry for you guys! i am not allergic to anything, though i feel like i need to vomit if someone even mentions white rice EW, was force fed it during a summer camp when i was 10/11 and now the thought of it makes me feel blah

Mimz-it makes sense that your son can eat applesauce cuz its cooked.

i can eat any fruit thats been cooked or canned-thats how i get by….oh and grapes….i eat lots of those!

the funny thing is, i’m allergic to the raw pork and chicken, but work in the meat dept. at a grocery store! lol

The fruit allergies started in middle school (don’t remember who asked that?!) but some have panned out, while others have gotten worse.

Ugh, the blue dye in M & M’s or any blue dye (including pills that are dyed blue) gives me a major migraine for 3 days. I feel your pain Mimz! I hope you feel better and I just drink a ton of water to try and flush it out of my system and vitamin C helps too.

Mimz, I thought fruits are characterized by being the seed of the plant, and vegetables are the plant, but not sure!

Pineapple & Pawpaw for food.

All things scented strongly including laundry detergent (that wasn’t fun to find out), shower gels etc.

Running also makes me break out in a rash – something about the change in temperature. I get it when I leave aircon or heated roms into the outside world. So strange.

Most animals as well as hay

We’re a sickly bunch here aren’t we!

OMG, I don’t know how you all survive!  Poor dears, the lot of you.

I get a little sniffly around cats, sometimes.  But I don’t really like cats, so it’s not really an issue.

C&C, you’re allergic to animals and hay?!  And that works how?!

You’d be surprised, Lightchick – there is more than one member on here with multiple house rabbits who are allergic to hay! They love the danged furballs so much that they give the hay indoors, but vacuum religiously… it’s all for the bunnylove.

Vacuum religeously, who me? HAHAHAHA! I just suffer through it and get BF to feed them so I don’t come into contact with the hay.

I can’t imagine how people allergic to fruit survive, but hey I’m vegan and if I didn’t have fruit I’d lose a major part of my diet. I heard that people allergic to fruit are also often allergic to salady stuff like capsicum, tomato etc (those are fruit aren’t they).

digxmexnow – I have a firend who also feels like he’s allergic to life. He hates going outside cause everything gives him hives but inside isn’t much better cause dust chokes him up. He just suffers through it too cause he’s built up a resistance to the drugs

Hey Scarlet Rose – one time I drank something blue – at a bar – BIG MISTAKE!   Although, something tells me it was the large amount of alcohol not the blue coloring.

Any way, I have not been able to drink anything blue since!

being allergic to buns and hay gets better some days….i’ve found i kind of build up a tolerance. if i’m gone a couple days, then its bad.

i’m allergic to fruit and also tomatos and cucumbers…not sure of the connections…

lol mimz i think i can just about manage to read the word ‘rice’ hehe i think i should have had the teachers done for misconduct, i didnt like it before and they made me sit in the same chair for 7hours while everyone went rock climbing (which i was really looking forward to) and said i will have to sit their upright all night aswell if i dont eat it, so i had to and now it is banned from my house forever i cant stand it, blugh i LOVE garlic fried brown rice though, its one of my fav things gorgeous mmmh

Mimz-you can ask for your food to be made without MSG!! I was a hostess at a buffet chinese resturaunt and we would even throw out buffet food if someone came in and requested food without MSG-they’d change over the whole buffet! No problems at all

Sage Cat, OMG, you crack me up!

Allergic to anything blue!  Hee, hee!

The big, once-every-two-year theatrical-lighting conference is in Las Vegas this October.  I will be boarding the buns…somewhere?…Bunny Bunch, probably…and heading off to Las Vegas, to the Star Trek Hilton, to test my own personal tolerance of blue cocktails…with dry ice fog…and glasses as big as my head….

Mmmmm yummmy!

(Robbie looks very displeased.  But we don’t believe him.  We think it’s only because Miss Lizzy won’t let him hump her.  Wretched buns!)

It’s difficult for those with allergies and intolerances. MSG is also a natural food chemical found in soy sauce, mushies and tomatoes to name a few.

OMG, we all sound like a bunch of nutcases!!!! this cracks me up!

LOL Sage Cat!  You also crack me up.  Yep, if I drink Blue Curacao it will give me a migraine, despite the alcohol.  I’m so glad I’m not the chick in WIlly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and turn into a giant blueberry and need to be rolled away for juicing.

random fruit allergy fact… if you have an allergic reaction (itching, tingly lips/tongue/throat) to fruit with a “skin” (apples, pears, peach, etc…) you probably aren’t allergic to the fruit but to tree pollen. Different tree pollens are structurally similar to what’s in the skin of fruit and it causes a cross-reaction. So for example, I’m really allergic to maple pollen, and maple pollen is really similar structurally to what’s in apple skins so I can’t eat an apple without my lips getting all itchy and red! (I’m not actually sure if maple = apple, I’m allergic to so many trees that I’ve forgotten what trees are associated with what fruit skin!) Of course, it doesn’t really matter since the end result is the same but it’s kinda cool

Oh, so moral of the story… if you think you’re allergic to a fruit because your lips get itchy… try taking the skin off of it and eating it and it might be better (Although allergies like the ones allenj described are different and due to the actual fruit- this just applies to ones that make your immediate mouth area itchy according to my doc…)

I’m also allergic to sour mix so no amaretto sours, etc for me anymore! Luckily I can drink blue drinks though

Annette here. Generic allergies — everything. No one ever believes me when I have to put that on forms and stuff but yes I tested positive to everything. So yes that means I’m allergic to all the pets etc, but I can’t imagine my life without them.

Food allergies: wild rice, red wine, mangos, seafood, MSG, sometimes chocolate/cheese/nuts. Comes with being migraine-prone. The mangos are more of an itching/breathing thing – I once had a shampoo/conditioner that had mango in it, I didn’t realize it at first but in the shower I thought wow my throat is getting really scratchy… had to wash my hair a few times to really get that out. Same thing happened when my hair dresser decided to use a mango-infused spray on my hair. Seafood I just can’t digest most of it

But I love blue drinks, lol.

wine makes you sneeze?!?!?! weird!!

Yes, my life is very sad without blue drinks but at least I can still drink port wine.  Perhaps it is the sulfites in it and if it is unfiltered that would explain it.

“Apparently” some bottles of port suggest adding a tiny amount of hydrogen peroxide to change the sulphite preservative to a sulphate that people don’t react to. I’ve seen a bottle of wine that dispenses this agent when you open it to do the same thing!

Jerseygirl, that is very interesting. I’ve never heard or seen that before.

Here’s the website for further reading
http://www.rivendellwines.com.au/docs/specials/specials.aspx?SpecialID=SID5352565

Cool, thanks!

Sorry to ruin the party for you MM but I don’t think it’d make diff either  Sulphur can cause asthma like symptoms but your reaction sounds like a histamine one from the wine itself. Grapes have high levels of salicylates, amines and glutamates(msg), so if you’re sensitive to these natural food chemicals, I’d say wine is a no go.

Yeah, it’s the grapes and raisins high in S, A’s and G’s. So many have reactions to wine these days, it’s hard to determine what the problem is. I’m not saying it’s these food chemicals in you case, just remembered you mentioning allergy to salicylates before. I remember reading a womans book whos daughter had reactions to salicylates. It would send her into hypoglycemic episode. They’d give her a spoonful of sugar and she’d turn right around. Weird.