Colleen!!

Nati05 · July 2012

I just saw on the Thursday thread that we share the same fresh fruit and raw vegetable allergy. Booo! I developed it when I was about 12 and it's progressed as I've gotten older. Have you ever been to a doctor about it? I always mean to cuz I'd love to get some answers but it's not one of those things I've gotten around to lol.

Sometimes I have the same reaction when I eat nuts and even sometimes with soymilk! Have you had this happen too? When it's a food I really love, ocassionally I eat some of it anyway and deal with the itching for a half hour til it goes away. Mangoes, avocadoes and strawberries are my faves!!

ETA: Oh and btw, I saw your bach pics on FB recently and I was dying laughing!! Your "stripper" was absolutely hilarious! Looks like your friends threw you an awesome party!

colleenm18 · July 2012

I have never spoken to a doctor about the allergy, but I also do get it sometimes with nuts and soymilk! Avocados & Strawberries dont bother me and I dont like Mango so I dont know if that would bother me.

I have only done some of my own research on it and I found that it can be connected to different seasonal allergies and is called Oral Allergy Syndrome. I have very bad spring allergies which also did not develop until my early 20's and it was shortly after those got bad that I noticed the food issue as well.

Here is an article from ABC News <-- click

Nati05 · July 2012

Thanks so much for the article!! That makes a lot of sense because I also have a severe pollen allergy, which worsened around age 12. And I remember that's when I couldn't eat apples anymore. I always worried though that if I ate too much of one of these irritating foods that I would have a severe allergic reaction, but from the article it looks like that's not possible. Thanks again for the info!

Colleen!!

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