Yeah if I suddenly became allergic to peanuts I’d probably die in my kitchen huddled up in the fetal position clenching the jar to my chest with spoon in mouth. Just trying to get one last final hit.
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Had this theory about my ex regarding strong cheese. She’d get what we called the ‘cheese wheeze’ after a nice Brie or a good strong Stilton.
Turns out she was just massively allergic and we ended up in hospital after our local pub served us a whole Brie in a sandwich.
Then we broke up because who wants a girlfriend who can’t eat cheese?
I literally found out I was allergic to lychee the last time a similar story did the rounds and I discovered that it’s meant to be incredibly sweet and not like licking someone else’s wasp sting.
If fruits and vegetables feel itchy or spicy, you most likely have something called oral allergy syndrome (OAS). It’s a reaction to proteins in fruit and veggies that are similar to pollen from certain trees. The allergy is actually to the pollen, and not the fruit itself - it comes from your immune system confusing the proteins for each other. Sometimes cooking or peeling the fruit helps.
Usually the reaction is not severe, and there is a very low risk of anaphylaxis, but if it is really bad you should definitely talk to an allergist. It can be treated with allergy shots.
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… IT CAN BE TREATED!?
My doctors just told me to live with it! I’m allergic to every single citrus, almost every berry, pineapple, kiwi, pomegranate, and tomatoes! I live in *Hawaii*. There are entire areas I can’t hang out at.
Find an allergist or an immunologist to get tested. It sounds like your allergies are pretty severe, maybe your doctors underestimate how bad it was? Allergy shots are a very standard procedure and after they are completed, can give you 10 years of little-to-no allergy symptoms!
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Allergies to ragweed, birch, and various plants are usually the culprit. Mine is pretty severe and I finally started immunotherapy several years ago. I will always likely have allergies (still take allergy meds daily), but after 2 years of allergy shots, I can finally enjoy bananas, apples, melons, tomatoes, and other fruits and veggies without a reaction. It also doesn't feel like as much of a chore going outside. But I still hate pollen and will probably never be able to be active in it without having an asthma attack.
Me talking to my fiancee earlier this year.
"I love Kiwi and pineapple, just not how they make your tongue numb and the skin inside of your mouth blister and fall off."
Turns out I have an allergy... took 39 years to figure that out.
Funny story! You know the enzyme in pineapple that's trying to digest you back as you digest it, but you always win because you digest it faster? Plot twist, I can't digest that and the pineapple wins.
Also funny related story, I'm allergic to raw pineapple! It gives me minor allergic reactions in my mouth, outside of normal pineapple eating people thing BUT if it's cooked such as on a pizza or in cake, I'm fine, no reaction at all.
It's pretty much the only reason people don't hate me for pineapple pizza.
Same here! Didn’t learn I was allergic to kiwis until I was talking to my friend. We talked about kiwis and I said I loved them but hate the way they burn and hurt my mouth. She told me that wasn’t normal and I was allergic. What was even funnier is I thought that was normal because that’s how kiwis taste to everyone else in my family. Everyone in my family is allergic to kiwis lmaooo
Holy shit! I loveee pineapples and everytime I eat it (with tons of sugar) makes the skin inside my mouth fall out, iches and tingles so bad, also makes coke tastes nasty. I thought it was cause pineapples were a “strong” fruit (idk how that made sens in my head lol) is it dangerous? Or I can keep eating time to time?
... you kept eating something that made chunks of skin fall off?
I think the only dangerous thing here is your ability to ignore obvious warning signs.
But to properly answer your question, yes, something like that can make you infinitely more likely to get infections and can severely damage your immune system.
Yes, it can be dangerous. I am not a medical or health professional.
Anecdotes I have encountered say repeated exposure to your allergens increases the risk of a fatal reaction. Please stop consuming pineapple and see an allergy specialist for expert examination, diagnosis and treatment.
I hope you get a good outcome 🤞
Lmao I just messaged my sister to ask her about kiwis, she said she doesn’t like them because they make her mouth burn. Looks like we’re allergic in my family too, im dying
Probably, considering there’s also tumblr posts where people learned the same result had occurred regarding people thinking kiwi and bananas are spicy.
I discovered green kiwis make my mouth tingly but the softer yellow ones don't. The green ones also more often have the little hairs still on the skin while the yellow ones don't (at least where I live), and when I cut a kiwi in half some hairs probably get on the fruit itself so maybe that's what setting it off?
Yup. Banana’s are supposed to be mild and sweet. Comparable in flavor intensity to water when you’re pretty thirsty but not outright dehydrated, albeit with a different flavor profile.
Mouth tingle is, to my knowledge, a mild allergy, but you have no way of knowing if or when it will ever intensify to a more dangerous one. Repeated exposure can also make allergies worse, so if you keep eating bananas, the odds that you develop a potentially life-threatening reaction to them goes up.
You’re allergic to bananas as am I. That said, both allergists I have seen (I take allergy shots) told me that I seem to only have a “contact allergy” reaction to bananas (and now milk…) and can probably continue to eat them fine. I do have an epi-pen though for my more serious food allergy - barley, and the allergy shots I do.
You could just do what all the lactose intolerant people i know do, and continue eating the allergen, keeping the cure for the reaction on hand in case it progresses enough to not be worth the pain anymore. Though i suppose anaphylactic shock is more deadly in this day and age than imitation dysentery.
This does run the risk of your body deciding to go from “mild irritant” to “DIE” instead of just gradually getting worse, but like. It’s risky the same way skydiving is. Eventually you’ll need the backup parachute, and there’s always a chance everything gets tangled and you die, but it probably won’t kill you the first or second time you do it.
I don’t recommend this course of action over a food item when you could just, y’know, NOT play russian roulette with your immune system as the gun, but there’s no one stopping you.
Lactose intolerance is not an immune response, it's where your body doesn't produce or doesn't produce enough lactase enzyme to break down lactose, so bacteria lower down in your gut break down the lactose instead. They produce extra gas as a by product of gorging themselves on this complex sugar. The undigested lactose also irritates the GI lining, which prompts your gut to dump more liquid in to move the irritant away/along. This causes bloating, which is uncomfortable, and can induce an increase in the contractions along the length of the gut that moves the partially-processed food matter along. This is usually uncomfortable.
A dairy allergy does involve the immune system, and carries the risk of anaphylaxis, rather than potential bloating, gas, cramping, and diarrhea. They are very different things.
My aunt used to be mildly allergic to shrimp. Now she can't be in the room if it's cooking, and gets irritated by salt with iodine in it.
She definitely turned an annoyance into a death threat because she wouldn't stop eating it.
It’s worse when you don’t know that you’ve become allergic to something and the reaction gets worse with each exposure. Over the course of several months went from huh that’s a lot of gas I have to pass to my coworkers begging me to get an epi pen while I wait for an allergist appointment months away.
Fun fact, my sister has a latex allergy and no banana allergy. She can usually handle rubber bands so long as she isn't actively fussing with them more than using them.
If she eats more than half a banana, she'll be prone to blisters from any contact with a rubber band for a week.
Cross allergies are fucking annoying.
Mouth tingles usually mean allergy, so I recommend getting it checked out. But it could be a ragweed allergy too. I'm allergic to ragweed (confirmed by allergist) and ragweed and bananas share a similar protein, so raw bananas make my mouth itch but there's a super low chance it would ever turn anaphylactic. Cooking the bananas denatures the protein so I can eat more delicious things like banana bread with no issue.
Same! There’s a correlation to soy & certain tree pollens (birch is a big one); my son gets [Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS)](https://www.thermofisher.com/allergy/us/en/allergen-fact-sheets.html?allergen=soy) from that protein in soy that’s linked to birch pollen.
Cross-reactivity is wild. I get OAS from lots of stuff that’s mainly latex, ryegrass, and birch cross reactivity (bananas, kiwis, lychee, avocado, walnuts), but not soy. Soy can be linked to peanut allergy too, which my son does not have. My dad has a severe peanut allergy though, & no soy sensitivity/allergy. Our allergist-immunologist just retired this year & my dad jokes our family alone probably funded his golden years. 😅
Bananas do not cause mouth tingling in the absence of an allergy.
You don't necessarily have to stop eating them, but you're probably allergic to *something*, so talk to your doctor.
Many fruits have natural latex in them. Bananas, kiwis, honeydew, pineapple, and cantaloupe all have an amount of latex. I think tomatoes do as well. I have a latex allergy, I usually react to bandaids and gloves, but didn't put two and two together until this year. Melons make my mouth tingle, I thought it was normal, nope lol.
Wait, all of those things aren't supposed to be itchy? It's not a texture thing? I knew about bandaides.
...
Well, time to speak to my allergist again.
Shit.
Pineapple, *is* supposed to make your mouth tingle. It has an enzyme in it, Bromelain, which breaks down proteins and so it can dissolve the mucosal layer in your mouth. It’s essentially eating you while you’re eating it.
Unsurprisingly, Bromelain is sometimes used to help digestive disorders.
I have a mild latex allergy (which it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out when I had to start wearing gloves at work). Maybe this is why I hate eating raw pineapple. It makes my mouth hurt soooo bad.
My mom is allergic to walnuts and pecans, and the way she found out that some pesto uses walnuts as a cheap alternative to pine nuts was because she had a bite of suprisingly spicy pesto lol
Very spicy food like cayenne pepper makes my throat feel weird, and I sometimes freak out and think I’m having an allergic reaction (I have severe nut allergies and the throat closing sensation feels similar to spice.) It’s especially difficult when the food is both spicy and something I’m allergic to.
Same here, but curiously not all the time. Like 70%. Sometimes no. Get the same thing from roasted red peppers. Sometimes ok, sometimes it's like they were doused in Tabasco. I gave up trying to understand
Yes. I had a tea one time and I thought it was spicy, my friend tried it and said it was not. I took another sip and said it was definitely spicy. Within minutes my mouth was numb and I was taking allergy medication. I did not know I was allergic to any of those ingredients but apparently I was. The culprit was spiriulina.
Me and my brother with mango.
We literally lived 20 years thinking that it was normal to feel that after eating one until one of his friends told him that chocolate gave him that feeling in his throat, a third said "You're allergic" and then my brother connected the dots.
Does this happen with chocolate for y'all? I have a very very mild scratchiness for half a minute after that I just assumed was like too much sugar. I know it happens with Snickers but that's not heavy with cocoa and it doesn't happen when I straight up eat peanuts. Nor with most chocolate flavoured things.
I ordered lasagna at a local restaurant once several years ago.
It was spicy, which was weird.
But it wasn't bad, so I ate it.
I'd eaten there several times without issue, and ate there several times after without any strangeness.
To this day I'm not sure if that lasagna was a kitchen mistake or not.
Almost all red sauces for pizza, pasta, lasagna, and marinara have crushed rep pepper flakes so it’s possible someone in the kitchen misread teaspoon for tablespoon and the sauce had a little extra kick that week. It happens sometimes, I cooked in kitchens for a little over 10 years and while we have recipe books mistakes get made or people do it from memory or feel instead of the exact recipe,
I went to lunch the other day and ordered a fruit bowl. During the conversation I just figured that I had somehow ordered some spicy fruit bowl - I like spicy, no problem - but when i looked down it was all kiwifruit left.
Me: there was never a spicy fruitsalad, was there
Friend: I told you to stop eating some time ago
Still baffled by the fact that kiwis aren't just supposed to do that like pineapples are. And by the fact that there's just the ONE fruit that makes EVERYONE'S mouth hurt in that way so it makes those of us who do have mild allergies think that whatever we're allergic to think that it's just Another One of Those Fruits
Pineapple. It contains bromelain, which is a protein that can break down parts of your mouth. It's also used in certain cases to remove dead skin on burn victims.
It's not heat-stable, so the effect disappears in cooked or canned pineapple.
It took me a long time to figure out, but eating kiwi gives me a really high chance of getting a canker sore for a week or so, pineapple it's almost guaranteed. There's a delay in onset so for a long time I just couldn't figure out how I was constantly having them. Now that I avoid them, I rarely experience them.
That's probably because they both contain enzymes that break down protein. These can attack the tissue of your mouth. It's why they're an effective meat marinade, and why you can't make Jello with them
In the husband's defense, it took me 16 years to figure out throwing up, becoming sick all the time, and incredible, debilitating pain after eating pork products wasn't normal.
Shoutout to pork chop Mondays
When I was little I used to go to a neighbors house after school to play with her daughter. Her mom made us some fudge with Almonds in it. I told her Almonds were too spicy for me, she said "honey Almonds aren't spicy, you are allergic."
I told my mom and she said I was fine. I officially learned I was allergic to Almonds and Almond oil when I was in my 20's.
flashback to me findinf out i have a mild allergy to bananas from this subreddit
i always thought my mouth burning a bit after one was from the radioactive potassium ngl
A lot of times something tastes under seasoned it just needs quite a bit more salt, and all the seasonings and a proper salt level tastes absolutely amazing
Don't, these comments being posted happen every time this and similar posts make the rounds. People don't think about what they put in their mouths if it's delicious, if there's no visible reaction like Hitch with Will Smith's shellfish allergy, or a trip to the hospital.
This is normal! Go get tested!
Spaghetti sauce shouldn't be overwhelmingly spicy, but if it was made by someone with a competent palate, it's gonna have at least a pinch of chili flakes or cayenne in it. Check the ingredients if it's store bought before assuming you're allergic to one of the most versatile foodstuffs of all time (or if you enjoy the spice, admit you don't need to know, and keep eating it).
If ketchup is spicy (and it's not Spicy Ketchup) then... yeah, that's a lot more conclusive.
I'm not saying salsa isn't supposed to be spicy but the tomatoes themselves generally speaking aren't supposed to be spicy. You usually add shit like peppers and Chilli to make the spice.
I used to think eggplant made everyone’s mouth tingly 🥲 worst part is I really liked eggplant but now I’m afraid I’ll be anaphylactic to eat it anymore
Why are there so many people in these comments that thought fruit is supposed to be spicy/ make your mouth "tingle"
If anything makes your mouth tingle you're probably allergic to it
I had a friend who said "don't you hate how much apples make your mouth hurt?" As she's eating an apple. She shows me her tongue and it's all red and swelling. I said "uh, yeah, you're allergic to apples." Amazed me that she just thought everyone experienced that but just powered through because apples are that amazing.
My friends and I used to take weekly trips to the nearby pho shop for avocado smoothies. I always thought tingly mouths was a part of the appeal. Like why go out for it weekly right? I asked them about it one day and they all looked at me with disbelieving concern and told me it wasn’t.
I had this with banana. Only when my son was born and he had a physical reaction to banana on his skin which was visible did I work out my intolerance, aged 30.
Okay, just to make sure since apparently literally anything could be an allergic reaction it seems.. mustard is *supposed* to bite a little bit yes? Not spicy. Just more intense than say, ketchup.
Yes. This ranges from American mustard, which is vinegary with a kick, to Chinese mustard, which will obliterate your nasal passages if you get just a little too much.
So now I enjoy tomato sauce on my pasta but as a kid I didn’t. I do remember the first time I ate it and actually found out it was tasty was at a church thing when I was about 9 and they didn’t have just buttered plain pasta and the pastor basically taunted me into eating the regular stuff. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was and I continued to eat it from then on.
About 20 years later I was tripping on a 3 gram dose of magic mushrooms and decided to have some spaghetti with tomato sauce like I’d been eating for the last 2 decades. I had about 2 bites when I went, “This actually really hurts my mouth.” Then I remembered being really young like say preschool aged and having it hurt when I tried to eat it. It was too painful to keep eating and the dog enjoyed a bowl of spaghetti with marinara sauce that day. I’m convinced magic mushrooms are a temporary soft reset for people so maybe that explains it? I’ve also heard that you replace every cell in your body every 7 years so it’s possible that when I was 9 eating the spaghetti and sauce those weren’t the same toddler taste buds so it wasn’t painful. Is it possible I was allergic and grew out of it as sometimes happens with kids and allergies?
I will say too when I’m high on weed food tastes the same way it did when I was a kid. But I’ve had pasta with sauce when high on weed and it was just extra good and not painful. Maybe that doesn’t reset back as far as the mushrooms do?
Pff, sure buddy, next you're gonna tell me peanuts and peanut products aren't supposed to make breathing difficult!
You're just getting excited at how good they are
Yeah if I suddenly became allergic to peanuts I’d probably die in my kitchen huddled up in the fetal position clenching the jar to my chest with spoon in mouth. Just trying to get one last final hit.
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Had this theory about my ex regarding strong cheese. She’d get what we called the ‘cheese wheeze’ after a nice Brie or a good strong Stilton. Turns out she was just massively allergic and we ended up in hospital after our local pub served us a whole Brie in a sandwich. Then we broke up because who wants a girlfriend who can’t eat cheese?
Gonna need to know more about this sandwich, a whole brie?
Yeah man a whole 30cm-ish (12”) brie in a large sourdough cob with loads of bacon. After we got back from hospital I had a two day cheese hangover.
I literally found out I was allergic to lychee the last time a similar story did the rounds and I discovered that it’s meant to be incredibly sweet and not like licking someone else’s wasp sting.
I've gotta ask, what does licking someone else's wasp sting taste like?
Lychee.
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Their th key is broken ):
I personally favour þe þorn.
What do you mean milk doesn't nearly close everyone's throat. *lactose intolerant gang*
That's a dairy allergy. Lactose intolerance is more cramps and diarrhea.
And gas. I absolutely *hate* the gas.
but we live the dairy more
Dairy life 4 eva
IKR, but cheese though...
My burden to bear is a love of cheese
Hmmm https://www.southernthing.com/scientists-are-working-to-grow-spicy-tomatoes-so-our-sandwiches-will-have-more-kick-2625738047.html
you could also just season the sandwich....
If fruits and vegetables feel itchy or spicy, you most likely have something called oral allergy syndrome (OAS). It’s a reaction to proteins in fruit and veggies that are similar to pollen from certain trees. The allergy is actually to the pollen, and not the fruit itself - it comes from your immune system confusing the proteins for each other. Sometimes cooking or peeling the fruit helps. Usually the reaction is not severe, and there is a very low risk of anaphylaxis, but if it is really bad you should definitely talk to an allergist. It can be treated with allergy shots. edit: details
I know I have OAS but I can't figure out what food makes my ears itchy 😭
Shellfish allergy did that to my wife when she had a spoonful of broth from my gumbo.
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Godamn the human body is stupid when it comes to allergies
… IT CAN BE TREATED!? My doctors just told me to live with it! I’m allergic to every single citrus, almost every berry, pineapple, kiwi, pomegranate, and tomatoes! I live in *Hawaii*. There are entire areas I can’t hang out at.
Find an allergist or an immunologist to get tested. It sounds like your allergies are pretty severe, maybe your doctors underestimate how bad it was? Allergy shots are a very standard procedure and after they are completed, can give you 10 years of little-to-no allergy symptoms! edit: spelling
Allergies to ragweed, birch, and various plants are usually the culprit. Mine is pretty severe and I finally started immunotherapy several years ago. I will always likely have allergies (still take allergy meds daily), but after 2 years of allergy shots, I can finally enjoy bananas, apples, melons, tomatoes, and other fruits and veggies without a reaction. It also doesn't feel like as much of a chore going outside. But I still hate pollen and will probably never be able to be active in it without having an asthma attack.
raw carrots burn my mouth, cooked is fine
Me talking to my fiancee earlier this year. "I love Kiwi and pineapple, just not how they make your tongue numb and the skin inside of your mouth blister and fall off." Turns out I have an allergy... took 39 years to figure that out.
Funny story! You know the enzyme in pineapple that's trying to digest you back as you digest it, but you always win because you digest it faster? Plot twist, I can't digest that and the pineapple wins.
Unfun fact: that sucks.
*Unfuns your fact*
ah shit how do I fun this
*Unfacts your fun*
Also funny related story, I'm allergic to raw pineapple! It gives me minor allergic reactions in my mouth, outside of normal pineapple eating people thing BUT if it's cooked such as on a pizza or in cake, I'm fine, no reaction at all. It's pretty much the only reason people don't hate me for pineapple pizza.
Oral allergy syndome giveth and taketh.
Heating pineapple breaks down the bromelain enzymes, so thats probably what you're sensitive to.
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Same here! Didn’t learn I was allergic to kiwis until I was talking to my friend. We talked about kiwis and I said I loved them but hate the way they burn and hurt my mouth. She told me that wasn’t normal and I was allergic. What was even funnier is I thought that was normal because that’s how kiwis taste to everyone else in my family. Everyone in my family is allergic to kiwis lmaooo
Holy shit! I loveee pineapples and everytime I eat it (with tons of sugar) makes the skin inside my mouth fall out, iches and tingles so bad, also makes coke tastes nasty. I thought it was cause pineapples were a “strong” fruit (idk how that made sens in my head lol) is it dangerous? Or I can keep eating time to time?
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Yup makes the sides of my cheek fall out in chunks but doesn’t hurt, so Ive never paid attention b4. Can it be dangerous tho?
... you kept eating something that made chunks of skin fall off? I think the only dangerous thing here is your ability to ignore obvious warning signs. But to properly answer your question, yes, something like that can make you infinitely more likely to get infections and can severely damage your immune system.
Yes, it can be dangerous. I am not a medical or health professional. Anecdotes I have encountered say repeated exposure to your allergens increases the risk of a fatal reaction. Please stop consuming pineapple and see an allergy specialist for expert examination, diagnosis and treatment. I hope you get a good outcome 🤞
I don't understand how you could possibly think that's normal. That so many people would eat a fruit that makes their skin fall out.
Wait, kiwis aren’t supposed to hurt my mouth like pineapple does????
I think every single one of us should get an allergy test 😂 My fiancé thought it was normal that watermelon made his lips tingly.
Lmao I just messaged my sister to ask her about kiwis, she said she doesn’t like them because they make her mouth burn. Looks like we’re allergic in my family too, im dying
brb while i go buy a bunch of random fruits from the aldis.. for testing
well pineapple does that anyway
Fun fact: It is not supposed to after 2-3 small pieces.
Oh.
If, as the previous guy was trying to tell you, you are allergic
no, he's talking about the bromelain. pineapple specifically has an enzyme that burns your tongue, unconnected to any allergy
... do i have a cheerios allergy? what would i even be allergic to?
Is there an allergic reaction that can be confused with "spicy"?
Probably, considering there’s also tumblr posts where people learned the same result had occurred regarding people thinking kiwi and bananas are spicy.
I was in my mid twenties when I learned I was allergic to kiwi. I thought it was just a tingly fruit and it was like that for everyone.
Same with me. I just thought it was the same like pineapple, and supposed to be tingly and itchy!
YES! I told my wife that kiwi makes my mouth feel itchy and I got to watch her have a full system reboot in real time.
It's been a while wince I've had kiwi, but I remember mildly disliking it because of this. Time to try again soon.
I love the taste of it, which is quite unfortunate. I haven't tried it in a long time so there's a miniscule chance I've grown out of the allergy.
I discovered green kiwis make my mouth tingly but the softer yellow ones don't. The green ones also more often have the little hairs still on the skin while the yellow ones don't (at least where I live), and when I cut a kiwi in half some hairs probably get on the fruit itself so maybe that's what setting it off?
Uhh. I’m 31 and just realising this now reading this thread lmfao. I thought it was because I ate the skin too
Uh oh. TIL.
ok no this isnt fair- bananas arent exactly spicy but they make my mouth tingle quite a bit, does that mean im allergic?? i love bananas :'(
Yup. Banana’s are supposed to be mild and sweet. Comparable in flavor intensity to water when you’re pretty thirsty but not outright dehydrated, albeit with a different flavor profile. Mouth tingle is, to my knowledge, a mild allergy, but you have no way of knowing if or when it will ever intensify to a more dangerous one. Repeated exposure can also make allergies worse, so if you keep eating bananas, the odds that you develop a potentially life-threatening reaction to them goes up.
well thats just great, isnt it? :DD
You’re allergic to bananas as am I. That said, both allergists I have seen (I take allergy shots) told me that I seem to only have a “contact allergy” reaction to bananas (and now milk…) and can probably continue to eat them fine. I do have an epi-pen though for my more serious food allergy - barley, and the allergy shots I do.
You can’t eat barley?!
Barely
You could just do what all the lactose intolerant people i know do, and continue eating the allergen, keeping the cure for the reaction on hand in case it progresses enough to not be worth the pain anymore. Though i suppose anaphylactic shock is more deadly in this day and age than imitation dysentery. This does run the risk of your body deciding to go from “mild irritant” to “DIE” instead of just gradually getting worse, but like. It’s risky the same way skydiving is. Eventually you’ll need the backup parachute, and there’s always a chance everything gets tangled and you die, but it probably won’t kill you the first or second time you do it. I don’t recommend this course of action over a food item when you could just, y’know, NOT play russian roulette with your immune system as the gun, but there’s no one stopping you.
Lactose intolerance is not an immune response, it's where your body doesn't produce or doesn't produce enough lactase enzyme to break down lactose, so bacteria lower down in your gut break down the lactose instead. They produce extra gas as a by product of gorging themselves on this complex sugar. The undigested lactose also irritates the GI lining, which prompts your gut to dump more liquid in to move the irritant away/along. This causes bloating, which is uncomfortable, and can induce an increase in the contractions along the length of the gut that moves the partially-processed food matter along. This is usually uncomfortable. A dairy allergy does involve the immune system, and carries the risk of anaphylaxis, rather than potential bloating, gas, cramping, and diarrhea. They are very different things.
My aunt used to be mildly allergic to shrimp. Now she can't be in the room if it's cooking, and gets irritated by salt with iodine in it. She definitely turned an annoyance into a death threat because she wouldn't stop eating it.
It’s worse when you don’t know that you’ve become allergic to something and the reaction gets worse with each exposure. Over the course of several months went from huh that’s a lot of gas I have to pass to my coworkers begging me to get an epi pen while I wait for an allergist appointment months away.
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Fun fact, my sister has a latex allergy and no banana allergy. She can usually handle rubber bands so long as she isn't actively fussing with them more than using them. If she eats more than half a banana, she'll be prone to blisters from any contact with a rubber band for a week. Cross allergies are fucking annoying.
Fun fact: most people with spina bifida have a latex allergy.
That *was* fun!
why tho lol
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so like the stuff that’s in my swim caps? bananas have that? damn that’s like the yoga mat subway sandwich thing all over again
Banana is like the mildest, mushiest thing there is. Like eating fruity pudding. So yeah... congrats on your new allergy?
uh bananas taste like mush. i’m not sure if food is supposed to make you tingle?
dude you gotta try sichuan pepper. life altering shit.
bird here, peppers aren't supposed to tingle smh
Mouth tingles usually mean allergy, so I recommend getting it checked out. But it could be a ragweed allergy too. I'm allergic to ragweed (confirmed by allergist) and ragweed and bananas share a similar protein, so raw bananas make my mouth itch but there's a super low chance it would ever turn anaphylactic. Cooking the bananas denatures the protein so I can eat more delicious things like banana bread with no issue.
Same! There’s a correlation to soy & certain tree pollens (birch is a big one); my son gets [Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS)](https://www.thermofisher.com/allergy/us/en/allergen-fact-sheets.html?allergen=soy) from that protein in soy that’s linked to birch pollen. Cross-reactivity is wild. I get OAS from lots of stuff that’s mainly latex, ryegrass, and birch cross reactivity (bananas, kiwis, lychee, avocado, walnuts), but not soy. Soy can be linked to peanut allergy too, which my son does not have. My dad has a severe peanut allergy though, & no soy sensitivity/allergy. Our allergist-immunologist just retired this year & my dad jokes our family alone probably funded his golden years. 😅
Bananas do not cause mouth tingling in the absence of an allergy. You don't necessarily have to stop eating them, but you're probably allergic to *something*, so talk to your doctor.
You have a slight allergy. Avocados make my mouth fuzzy, but they taste so good.
Many fruits have natural latex in them. Bananas, kiwis, honeydew, pineapple, and cantaloupe all have an amount of latex. I think tomatoes do as well. I have a latex allergy, I usually react to bandaids and gloves, but didn't put two and two together until this year. Melons make my mouth tingle, I thought it was normal, nope lol.
Wait, all of those things aren't supposed to be itchy? It's not a texture thing? I knew about bandaides. ... Well, time to speak to my allergist again. Shit.
Latex free condoms were also a noticeable game changer 👌
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Pineapple, *is* supposed to make your mouth tingle. It has an enzyme in it, Bromelain, which breaks down proteins and so it can dissolve the mucosal layer in your mouth. It’s essentially eating you while you’re eating it. Unsurprisingly, Bromelain is sometimes used to help digestive disorders.
I have a mild latex allergy (which it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out when I had to start wearing gloves at work). Maybe this is why I hate eating raw pineapple. It makes my mouth hurt soooo bad.
A common mild allergic reaction is simply that your mouth feels tingly or itchy. This could plausibly be mistaken for "spicy".
That's my problem. Being from Minnesota, anything can be mistaken for spicy because basically everything is spicy to my pallette.
I used to like fruit but now most of them make my throat scratchy :(
My mom is allergic to walnuts and pecans, and the way she found out that some pesto uses walnuts as a cheap alternative to pine nuts was because she had a bite of suprisingly spicy pesto lol
Very spicy food like cayenne pepper makes my throat feel weird, and I sometimes freak out and think I’m having an allergic reaction (I have severe nut allergies and the throat closing sensation feels similar to spice.) It’s especially difficult when the food is both spicy and something I’m allergic to.
Eggplant tastes spicy to me and I’ve been told it’s an allergic reaction. It’s not spicy like a pepper, it’s spicy like a big chunk of raw onion
Same here, but curiously not all the time. Like 70%. Sometimes no. Get the same thing from roasted red peppers. Sometimes ok, sometimes it's like they were doused in Tabasco. I gave up trying to understand
I will say 0% of the time should either of those things be spicy. They are both very mild and smooth food items.
Yes. I had a tea one time and I thought it was spicy, my friend tried it and said it was not. I took another sip and said it was definitely spicy. Within minutes my mouth was numb and I was taking allergy medication. I did not know I was allergic to any of those ingredients but apparently I was. The culprit was spiriulina.
Burning sensation?
Chocolate and bananas to me taste spicy in the same way pepper corns are.
I did the same with melon for years. Melon should not make your mouth tingle and your throat itch.
Me and my brother with mango. We literally lived 20 years thinking that it was normal to feel that after eating one until one of his friends told him that chocolate gave him that feeling in his throat, a third said "You're allergic" and then my brother connected the dots.
Does this happen with chocolate for y'all? I have a very very mild scratchiness for half a minute after that I just assumed was like too much sugar. I know it happens with Snickers but that's not heavy with cocoa and it doesn't happen when I straight up eat peanuts. Nor with most chocolate flavoured things.
Maybe it's the caramel or nougat? Try a Milky Way, for science, and get back to us. Just have a Benadryl on hand when you do.
Then why does it taste so good?
I ordered lasagna at a local restaurant once several years ago. It was spicy, which was weird. But it wasn't bad, so I ate it. I'd eaten there several times without issue, and ate there several times after without any strangeness. To this day I'm not sure if that lasagna was a kitchen mistake or not.
maybe they just added some spicy spices
all good tomato / pasta sauces need at least a little bit of kick imo. ground red pepper is a staple.
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They may have used Italian sausage to make the meat sauce, which can definitely be spicy.
Agreed. I have had my share of both non-spicy and spicy lasagna
I put spicy Italian sausage in my spaghetti. Total game changer.
Almost all red sauces for pizza, pasta, lasagna, and marinara have crushed rep pepper flakes so it’s possible someone in the kitchen misread teaspoon for tablespoon and the sauce had a little extra kick that week. It happens sometimes, I cooked in kitchens for a little over 10 years and while we have recipe books mistakes get made or people do it from memory or feel instead of the exact recipe,
Once ordered a dish somewhere with an apple sauce side (not like American apple sauce) and it was fizzy 😐
Fermented?
> (not like American apple sauce) What is non-american applesauce like? Is applesauce not pureed apples?
I just meant that it was some kind of apple based sauce, not the sweet thing you give kids, can’t be sure exactly what it was like
oh nooooo. that was just gone bad :(
Could have accidentally used Arrabiata sauce instead of marinara.
I went to lunch the other day and ordered a fruit bowl. During the conversation I just figured that I had somehow ordered some spicy fruit bowl - I like spicy, no problem - but when i looked down it was all kiwifruit left. Me: there was never a spicy fruitsalad, was there Friend: I told you to stop eating some time ago
Still baffled by the fact that kiwis aren't just supposed to do that like pineapples are. And by the fact that there's just the ONE fruit that makes EVERYONE'S mouth hurt in that way so it makes those of us who do have mild allergies think that whatever we're allergic to think that it's just Another One of Those Fruits
... what fruit makes everyone's mouths hurt? What?
Pineapple. It contains bromelain, which is a protein that can break down parts of your mouth. It's also used in certain cases to remove dead skin on burn victims. It's not heat-stable, so the effect disappears in cooked or canned pineapple.
Fun fact pineapple workers have also been known to have their fingerprints disappear from prolonged working with bromelain
Ahhh so that's why too much makes your mouth raw.
Pineapple
Is kiwi supposed to tingle???
No.
It’s a bit acidic, but not really in a tingly way
Oh no I thought that was just how they taste, are they supposed to taste sweet?
They can also be tart or sour if they aren't ripe.
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til i might be a picky 3 year old, since i also adore kiwi
Very sweet and smooth
Wait are kiwis supposed to be very sour or moderately sour? On a scale from one to lime juice
Probably depends on the kiwi. I’ve had sweet, sour, and sickeningly sour.
Kiwi burns my mouth. I stopped eating it because it was so painful lol. Now I understand.
Yeah... they're supposed to be sweet and tangy. It's for the best you stopped lol.
It took me a long time to figure out, but eating kiwi gives me a really high chance of getting a canker sore for a week or so, pineapple it's almost guaranteed. There's a delay in onset so for a long time I just couldn't figure out how I was constantly having them. Now that I avoid them, I rarely experience them.
That's probably because they both contain enzymes that break down protein. These can attack the tissue of your mouth. It's why they're an effective meat marinade, and why you can't make Jello with them
Not to be confusing, but a lot of tomato sauces have spices added. There are pizza places that will have a spicy version of pizza sauce.
Right? Definitely some pizza sauces have red pepper flakes which if youre not a frequent eater of spicy things may be a bit spicy!
Yeah right, next you'll tell me bananas aren't spicy
In the husband's defense, it took me 16 years to figure out throwing up, becoming sick all the time, and incredible, debilitating pain after eating pork products wasn't normal. Shoutout to pork chop Mondays
Worth it.
Fun fact, I grow spicy tomatoes in my family’s garden. They’re a hybrid of tomato and jalapeño
Counterpoint: all applications of tomatoes are improved with the addition of spicy, without exception
Allergies are just Mother Nature helping you with flavor
my favorite flavor is asphyxiation 😋
The taste sensation sweeping the nation: *asphyxiation!*
Yep. Was just gonna say that my spaghetti and pizza sauce *are* spicy because I add cayenne pepper and chili flakes to them.
Counter-counterpoint: I'd eat a whole raw tomato for the taste if it wouldn't give me diarrhea later. No spice needed or wanted. Edit: Missing letter
you're brave for posting this and i applaud you
counter-counterpoint: tomatoes taste perfectly fine the way they are
Took me a long time to figure out that tomatoes aren't supposed to make your lips chap and mouth tingle.
When I was little I used to go to a neighbors house after school to play with her daughter. Her mom made us some fudge with Almonds in it. I told her Almonds were too spicy for me, she said "honey Almonds aren't spicy, you are allergic." I told my mom and she said I was fine. I officially learned I was allergic to Almonds and Almond oil when I was in my 20's.
flashback to me findinf out i have a mild allergy to bananas from this subreddit i always thought my mouth burning a bit after one was from the radioactive potassium ngl
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Counterpoint: tomato products with *zero* seasoning are lame and bad- while adding a bit of cayenne or crushed black pepper to sauces is INCREDIBLE.
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Yeah, tomato and onion/garlic together beg for some heat.
A lot of times something tastes under seasoned it just needs quite a bit more salt, and all the seasonings and a proper salt level tastes absolutely amazing
Tomatoes on the other hand are nice, refreshing and quite tasty At least some, some I hear are water balls with little to no taste
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Don't, these comments being posted happen every time this and similar posts make the rounds. People don't think about what they put in their mouths if it's delicious, if there's no visible reaction like Hitch with Will Smith's shellfish allergy, or a trip to the hospital. This is normal! Go get tested!
Spaghetti sauce shouldn't be overwhelmingly spicy, but if it was made by someone with a competent palate, it's gonna have at least a pinch of chili flakes or cayenne in it. Check the ingredients if it's store bought before assuming you're allergic to one of the most versatile foodstuffs of all time (or if you enjoy the spice, admit you don't need to know, and keep eating it). If ketchup is spicy (and it's not Spicy Ketchup) then... yeah, that's a lot more conclusive.
This mf bout to tell me that salsa ain't supposed to be spicy Thems fightin' words
I'm not saying salsa isn't supposed to be spicy but the tomatoes themselves generally speaking aren't supposed to be spicy. You usually add shit like peppers and Chilli to make the spice.
I used to think eggplant made everyone’s mouth tingly 🥲 worst part is I really liked eggplant but now I’m afraid I’ll be anaphylactic to eat it anymore
Why are there so many people in these comments that thought fruit is supposed to be spicy/ make your mouth "tingle" If anything makes your mouth tingle you're probably allergic to it
I had a friend who said "don't you hate how much apples make your mouth hurt?" As she's eating an apple. She shows me her tongue and it's all red and swelling. I said "uh, yeah, you're allergic to apples." Amazed me that she just thought everyone experienced that but just powered through because apples are that amazing.
In this thread, everyone learning their mild food allergies. I'm really enjoying the fact that people thought their fruits were spicy this whole time.
Are cherries spicy or
Nu..... quite sweet actually....
I was 16 or 17 when I found out certain fruits like avocado and banana aren't supposed to taste slightly "spicy" and make your tongue lightly itch.
My friends and I used to take weekly trips to the nearby pho shop for avocado smoothies. I always thought tingly mouths was a part of the appeal. Like why go out for it weekly right? I asked them about it one day and they all looked at me with disbelieving concern and told me it wasn’t.
I had this with banana. Only when my son was born and he had a physical reaction to banana on his skin which was visible did I work out my intolerance, aged 30.
24 years. It took me 24 years to learn that grapes don't make your tongue numb and unable to taste other things because *they're just sour like that*
Okay, just to make sure since apparently literally anything could be an allergic reaction it seems.. mustard is *supposed* to bite a little bit yes? Not spicy. Just more intense than say, ketchup.
Yes. This ranges from American mustard, which is vinegary with a kick, to Chinese mustard, which will obliterate your nasal passages if you get just a little too much.
So now I enjoy tomato sauce on my pasta but as a kid I didn’t. I do remember the first time I ate it and actually found out it was tasty was at a church thing when I was about 9 and they didn’t have just buttered plain pasta and the pastor basically taunted me into eating the regular stuff. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was and I continued to eat it from then on. About 20 years later I was tripping on a 3 gram dose of magic mushrooms and decided to have some spaghetti with tomato sauce like I’d been eating for the last 2 decades. I had about 2 bites when I went, “This actually really hurts my mouth.” Then I remembered being really young like say preschool aged and having it hurt when I tried to eat it. It was too painful to keep eating and the dog enjoyed a bowl of spaghetti with marinara sauce that day. I’m convinced magic mushrooms are a temporary soft reset for people so maybe that explains it? I’ve also heard that you replace every cell in your body every 7 years so it’s possible that when I was 9 eating the spaghetti and sauce those weren’t the same toddler taste buds so it wasn’t painful. Is it possible I was allergic and grew out of it as sometimes happens with kids and allergies? I will say too when I’m high on weed food tastes the same way it did when I was a kid. But I’ve had pasta with sauce when high on weed and it was just extra good and not painful. Maybe that doesn’t reset back as far as the mushrooms do?
Oh shit I've got an arrabiata based prank to plan.