What is oral allergy syndrome?

If you have swelling, itching or burning of your lips, mouth, or throat after eating fresh fruits, vegetables but does not occur when you cook, can, process, microwave or freeze them? Then you may have oral allergy syndrome, also known as as pollen food allergy syndrome. Please see an allergist for further evaluation and management. This is for general educational purposes.

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[sherlogic]

People have tried to gaslight me out of taking my allergies seriously & my own parents didn’t take them seriously when I spent every day wheezing. I have been lied to, tricked, guilt tripped, and straight told that it’s big pharma and everyone has to eat food. I can’t accept food from anyone because people have been deceitful. She will learn the hard way, like I did because of ableism.

[katrinakeith]

My mother, sister, and I all have oral allergy syndrome! I didn’t even realize it existed until my late 20’s! I was sitting with a friend, eating a banana, and I asked her “don’t you hate the way bananas make your mouth itch?”
Haha, she said that’s not normal, but I never realized because of the same condition in my family members. Almost all raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts will do it, milk helps with the itching, and cooking or over-ripening helps too.
Thanks for talking about it!

[allpowerfulmitochondria]

My old roommate had a pollen allergy and I told her she was full of shit. Then I ate a salad with cinnamon and apples and my tongue was hot and tingly like I had eaten hot sauce. So I order the salad a few more times thinking it’s the cinnamon on the nuts so I just don’t put the nuts on the salad and my symptoms had progressed to my tongue and lips swelling a bit and this tingling feeling of like ants crawling through my ears and throat. So I told her when I got home and she told me I probably have the same pollen allergy because I’m asymptomatic when I eat apple sauce or apple pie, but if I eat a raw apple the metaphorical ants are coming. It’s progressively gotten worse. I can’t eat pears anymore and yesterday I tried to eat a plum and I almost cried because I really like plums, but I can’t have those anymore!