Can you overcome a food allergy? #food #allergies #doctor

[cactustree]

As someone with food allergies, it helps to find an allergist that treats a lot of patients with food allergies. Ask around. These docs usually mention food allergies on their website and you can always call to ask for a rough percentage of patients with food allergies and what type of treatment(s) are offered. I have to drive to a large city for mine but he has helped me whereas other allergists helped with environmental allergies but not food.

[le_th_]

If you've never had anaphylaxis, you do NOT want to experience it. If you're lucky, the first anaphylactic response will just cause you to forcefully vomit up the entire contents of your stomach, followed by a lovely tsunami of stomach acid that will burn your esophagus from your cardiac sphincter all the way up to your epiglotis, followed by an unrelenting dry cough, hoarseness, fatigue, and muscle weakness, and an esophagus that is so swollen that you can feel tiny grains of rice as they go down. Followed by a month or more of recovery, depending on the person's state of health/resiliency. If you're not so fortunate, you might not see the next sunrise/sunset.

Fun times! Please learn from the mistakes of others, or ignore at your own peril.

[justarandomgothamite]

Tldr: don't fuck with allergies without supervision

[Kate-hhyi]

My kids love mango. I never get any. By the time I've cut it.. it's gone. My hands always bother me during and after cutting up mango. I thought it was just because it's sticky & I have sensitive skin.

I bought an extra mango my last shopping trip. Cut this one up just for me!

I even had the self control not to eat one piece until I was done prepping it. I gobbled it down... oh, it was delicious!

Then I started to feel like I'd eaten insulation. I started to heave. My eyes were pouring down tears. I couldn't stop breath-coughing... and my chest... mouth and face were on fire.

I ran to my medicine cabinet and ate 3 benadryl. Ran to the fridge & took a sip of the kids benadryl.

It was days before I recovered. Mango is like a near death instant body cleanse, apparently.

I had no idea.

[vanessabendotti]

That's what my sister did. She had an extreme extreme allergy to eggs. Touching them was a run to the hospital.

During the course of 10 years and lots of care of the doctor (I guess he was an allergist), she got to the point that she can cook eggs for others and touch them without any reaction and she can eat small quantities (maximum an egg) without getting bad reactions.
It's an amazing progress!! But it was done with a doctor supporting through the process.
A mistake could have literally killed her

[gwngwngwn]

Reminds me of someone with mango allergy who thought mango was supposed to be spicy until their friends said it was not 😭😭😭

[Mumsiken]

My child has wheat dependent exercise induced anaphylaxis. Means if eats wheat and his heart rate and body temperature elevates he gets into anaphylactic shock.

[paigestrasser]

That was a kind way of saying “you don’t know what you’re doing “ 😂😂
I would take his advice and seek professional help

[phantomkate]

I've never met an allergist who was willing or able to do anything other than a skin scratch test and give pharmaceutical treatments.

That is to say, if you don't react on your skin then they don't believe it's s real allergy. Maybe this is just the Canadian doctors who are this far behind the times?

[meowser]

my sister used to have a mild pineapple allergy and loved to eat pineapple. now it's a deadly pineapple allergy and she no longer can eat it.

[arianaink]

I feel like this method is only for minor allergies.

I had reactions to kiwis but kept eating them because tasty - and I don’t even get a reaction anymore. I was also allergic to cats to the point my eyes would swell shut and I’d have hives, but I kept visiting my friend who had kittens and basically cuddling them and pulling them up to my face to give them raspberries or forehead kisses. Now I don’t get reactions and don’t even sneeze and I’ve been able to own cats of my own.

My other family’s have more severe reactions requiring hospitalizations- and my brother has entirely grown out of a seafood allergy that had him hospitalized multiple times as a child.

I just think minor allergies can be resolved through exposure - from personal experience- but extreme allergies shouldn’t ever be put to the test.

[daemon]

I've only experienced the mildest symptoms of my food allergy, shrimp/iodine, from eating but the panic was real and immediate. My lips and tongue were tingly and numb. A couple years later, I had to do an MRI with iodine contrast after a TBI. The very nice docs had me doped up on a lot of antihistamines, but it still felt like my entire cardiovascular system was itchy. I'm terrified of what could happen if I eat a food I have no idea contains shrimp. Shrimp paste is used in a huge amount of foods from all over the world, but particularly in East/Southeast Asia. Traditional kimchi, a laundry list of soups/sauces, an even longer list of stir-fried foods.

[thecherrytree]

Haha, can confirm everytime i accidentally eat mango, cashew, or pistachio the reactions get slightly worse each time.

Not doing it on purpose, ive been careful 😭

[staceycoates]

I do consume my food allergy quite frequently. However my allergic reaction is digestive not anaphylaxis, so I have to decide if eating ice cream is worth the stomach ache later. I did make a conscious choice to continue consuming my allergen because I can still digest my allergen and therefore get the nutrients from whatever I am eating. However I am aware that my digestive issues could get to the point that it is not worth it anymore so I do seek out other options as well.

[midoritea]

Me with my slight allergy to raw peaches: you'll have to take these out of my COLD, DEAD HANDS!!!

[wolf.alliance]

Can you do a video on Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS)? I have that, and so many people think I'm a liar when I say I can't eat fruit

[tweets]

also even if you get used to eating the food the second you stop eating it for a while you'll just immediately be right back where you started

[thebeebz]

It took me so long to realize that what I was drinking didn't taste spicy to everybody else

[melissasowell]

I'm 30 now and used to be able to eat bananas all the time as a child but around eight years ago I was halfway through one and started going into anaphylactic shock. My face swelled up, I was dizzy itchy and nearly fainted. Thank goodness the doctors was not far away. I now can't even touch a banana without the skin or I get a itchy rash all over my hands.

[skatersurfersnowboarder]

My allergist tested me for peanuts; I had a severe reaction as a little kid; he said my levels are now low enough to challenge and that i could potentially be able to eat peanuts!

I of course will wait until the challenge at my allergist before doing anything. But if I do well in the challenge or maybe have extra help with OIT i still worry it could come back?

What caused it to go down in the first place? Just age? "growing out of allergies"

I did the same to milk as well. Had a severe reaction to milk as a baby; but by grade school i could drink milk freely.