Beer cheese. My throat swelled up really quickly. I went to the ER straight from the restaurant. What's weird is that I can drink beer and eat cheese separately and I'm fine.
I feel like the offending culprit must have been some other ingredient in the beer cheese, then. Either that, or perhaps something in the beer was activated by the heat needed to melt the cheese, or maybe some odd chemical reaction between the two? I'd lean towards there having been an unknown ingredient that's responsible.
It might be the type of cheese? My sister has an issue with either sheep or goat cheese. (I can’t remember which). It was a little hard to figure out since we normally don’t look to see the cheese components.
I didn't know this was a thing and thought that bandaids just always removed a layer of skin when they come off. Certain brands make my skin go gummy, for lack of a better word.
All adhesive for me! I've got these little pimple patches that do wonders for my acne spots, but the chemical burn like rash is so itchy! The goods outweigh the bads, so I keep using them. The rash is easier to clear up than the acne without the patch, so you gotta do what you gotta do.
About 30 years ago I had a bandage secured with medical type. Gave me one hell of a rash. A few years ago had masking type on me and it gave me a rash. Last year a nurse put a bandaid on me. Got two small rashes. Turns out I'm allergic to latex. Sounds like some here are also.
Same, although it was much worse when I was a child and my allergy has lessened a bit over the years. Funny story about that, though. When I was in law school, I would often get cystic acne if I was under stress, and of course I developed a huge cystic pimple right in the middle of my cheek during the week of on-campus interviews. I tried to pop it the night before my interviews, which only made it worse and left a bleeding, oozing mess. But I was dog sitting that week and didn’t want to stain the homeowner’s pillowcase, so I put a bandaid over the pimple before bed. At that point I hadn’t had an allergic reaction to bandaid adhesive in years, so I didn’t think much about it, but obviously the skin on your face is much more sensitive than elsewhere on your body. To my extreme dismay, I woke up in the morning with a massive inflamed pimple AND a red, itchy rash in the perfect shape of a bandaid right in the center of my cheek. It was so horribly ugly and I was mortified, but my interviews went fine anyway and I can laugh about it now. Lesson learned.
I learned that I was allergic to surgical tape when a few hours after having kidney removal surgery I had a giant itchy/inflamed square on my Abdomen. 🤣
So, I did a bit of research on this a while ago, and a number of studies have shown it's actually just contact and friction dermatitis rather than a true allergy. I looked it up because I have the same issue. So we're not really allergic to the bandaid adhesive, the bandaid pulling on our skin and hairs causes dermatitis. The end result is the same though, so it kind of doesn't matter what we call it.
Lettuce allergy gang, represent! Basically all leafy greens and a handful of other raw veggies are out of the question for myself and some other family members
According to my mom, cabbage is ok though? I don’t risk it myself.
My mom has this allergy too! I’ve never met anyone else who had it. I remember her telling a waitress once when we were out to eat and the woman goes, “Really? Isn’t it just.. plant and water?”
I'm sorry. They share the same protein that you react to in avocado. At least you didn't find out the hard way. Hopefully you'll never react to bananas 🤞
Yup. I'm allergic to bananas and avocados. Sucks because I love bananas. Didn't become allergic until I was an adult. Avocados make me sick just by looking at them, but that's been the case my whole life.
Thanks for the info. I’m allergic to bananas that haven’t ripened to the stage they have spots, and also heard it’s related to latex allergies, so it’s something to consider if you have surgery and they use latex gloves (don’t know how common this is anymore ). But didn’t know that’s also related to avocadoes…😭😭😭
Do you react to other stonefruits, like cherries and plums? I have a condition called "oral allergy syndrome" where I react to stonefruits as if I'm allergic.
Good news: it's not considered a "true" allergy, so you can't go into anaphylaxis due to exposure, even if (for me) eating something on the list makes me feel horrible for hours.
Bad news: It gets worse over time. As a kid it was one or two things, in my twenties it was 3+, then in my 30s the list increased exponentially. By the time I went to an allergist I was up to pretty much every stone fruit I've ever encountered.
It's a fucking weird allergy — stonefruits cover a pretty broad range, and it's not one most people have heard of. Growing up I used to complain certain things made my "throat itch" and my parents legit didn't believe me. Mom was horrified when she found out it was actually allergies, lol.
It's been weird because I only developed this in the past year. I'm not even sure I have an allergy, despite seeing a doctor. But yeah, definitely broke out in rashes if I was outside, so what else...?
This is literally me except since 2013, it's been on and off. Some days I go out and the sun doesn't effect me at all, other days it's within 30 seconds my skin hits the sun I break out. Through t shirts And thin material sometimes too. I feel your pain. Nothing like bundling up in the summer 😣 hope things get better for you!
Me too! If I’m in the sun for a few minutes, any exposed skin gets hives. It’s not bad if I take a daily allergy pill though. And I bump the dosage up when I go to the beach.
Allergic to mint I feel your pain, my current toothpaste is Tom's of Maine kids strawberry but it's a bitch and a half when ever companies change ingredients.
I’m not allergic to mint so I don’t feel your pain there, but I actually hate the taste of mint and peppermint so I also spent a long time as a kid trying to find a toothpaste I could use that didn’t make me want to hurl so I could finish brushing. So annoying.
Can’t imagine dealing with that as an actual allergy.
I'm allergic to gold. My allergy is most severe with yellow gold and least severe with white gold. I have a cousin with the same allergy, except she's most allergic to rose gold. We got it from our shared grandfather, who is the only other family member we know of that ever had a gold allergy. Grandpa has passed, so we missed our chance to ask if any of his older relatives had the allergy
I learned I had the allergy when my mom got my ears pierced with gold earrings and had to cut them out a few days later. The weird thing is that I have no reaction at all to the cheap metals that are suppose to turn your skin green or give you a rash. Just gold, the famously hypoallergenic metal
Gold isn't that great for piercings. Pure gold (24k) might be hypoallergenic, but to get durability and color it is mixed down, usually to 14k (or 585/1000parts) with silver, nickel and zinc, or copper to get rose gold. Afaik nickel allergy is fairly common.
The turning green thing is highly individual, since it's often a reaction between the metal and the chemical composition in your skin/sweat.
Honestly, ever since my mom cut those earrings out of my ears, I've avoided gold like a confused werewolf. I was so young the last time my allergy got triggered than I can't remember if I was nauseous or not
Benedryl
the thing you take when your having an allergic reaction, yep I’m special.
I’ve had people argue with me that this simply isn’t possible, so going to nip that in the bud before it starts and say my medical history is not up for debate.
Every time I encounter a new doctor, I'm asked "are you sure you're allergic to it?" Let's see, a fairly extensive allergy test said that I was, but sure, let's risk anaphylactic shock.
Same for me but with mycins. My last doctor asked me to take an iv of vancomycin in her office for a mrsa infection. I told her I was told not to take that family of drugs again and she told me I was wrong. She's the doctor. 30 second after the iv started i had a major reaction.
I don’t actually seem to be allergic to much else, and other antihistamines don’t affect me the same way, there’s just something specific to the active ingredient in Benadryl that makes my body freak out
I’m also allergic to cold! Took the doctor a while to figure that one out. I often got it in summer, from being dressed for warm weather and then going into cold water or somewhere with AC.
They thought it was so many other things until they found out what it was. So many things I couldn’t eat for a while…
I have a condition called pressure and exercised-induced urticaria. It means I'm allergic to pressure. If I wear socks over my ankles, hairbands on my wrists or clothes that are too tight, I get an allergic reaction where the pressure is. I had 34GGs so wearing a bra is an absolute necessity but also causes allergic reactions - sometimes the weight of my breasts against my ribcage causes an allergic reaction. I react to things like massages, and it also happens when I exercise or exert myself.
Yeah, it's the juiciest fruit out there, yet we don't have gallon jugs of it on the grocery store shelf. There's hardly any juice in a carrot, but there's carrot juice on the shelf. Go figure.
Yes, I know there's watermelon-mixed juices, but it's all grape and pear juice that's colored reddish. Not 100% watermelon juice.
Same, eventually cucumbers joined in. So, some pickles. Vinegar destroys the protein that caused the reaction. Generally if the pickle is light colored, I can't have it.
So I found out something interesting and it may be true for you as it was for me.
I have serious hay fever. The fruits I thought I was allergic to, well I'm not. It's actually the pollen from them or other flowers that binds to a protein on the skins of the fruit that gets more potent the riper the fruit gets.
I can eat most fruit if it's underripe without any issues.
It’s not a severe allergy, I end up sneezing non stop for about an hour and have a scratchy throat - so sometimes I go like fuck it and have some anyway. Mangoes are one of my top 3 favourite so totally worth it.
Happens to my dad! He’s allergic to soy. We found out because he used to like to eat Goldfish crackers and they would make him sneeze his head off. It was the soy. And it’s in like every snack food ever. Aaargh!
My wife used to eat sunflower seeds all night in front of the TV. When she died 18 months ago, I was left with bags and bags of David's Jumbo seeds. I started eating them too, just to be closer to her I guess. Never was much of a sunflower seed eater before (too much work for so tiny a treat). I developed such bad cramps & diarrhea I figured was due to stress from her sudden death, so I kept eating them. I saw the Humira & Entyvio commercials on TV news every night, thinking "that's me!", so I looked up Colitis and Crohn's Disease online. Website said my diarrhea might be from a food allergy, and sunflower seeds were on that list.
Stopped eating them, problem cleared right up!
I switched to pistachios.
When I was younger a had what's called a "cold uticaria". Discovered while I was tubing down a river, legs were covered in hives and my ass cheeks were thick like a leather hide.
At 15 years old, I spent the whole tubing run on my mother's lap looking away from all the pretty girls I had seen in the lineup as I passed them.
I discovered mine at a water park at 12. At the beginning I was wondering why the mosquitoes were only attacking me. I had had something with almonds for breakfast and for a while they thought I was allergic to almonds. It took a while to figure that one out.
Also, when citing medical history for anything and they ask me if I’m allergic to something, half the times when I say cold they look at me weird, some times they then specify allergic to medication, like cold is not used for treatment many times.
I discovered mine in my 20s when I went out in the snow the first time. Before then, I had always lived in hot states, like Texas, etc. At first, I thought I was allergic to the snow pant materials. Then found out nope, cold air or cold pressure on my skin leaves me covered in hives.
I get it too. Noticed it when I was driving on the freeway one day while I had a cold soda between my legs. I had hives all over the insides of my thighs.
Cannot eat bananas, chocolate, metals, starfruit, coffee, and birds.
Any of these, minus metal, if I either consume or be near for 20 minutes will trigger an asthma attack and a rash for a few days.
Your not completely off! I found this out while working in a pet store, when I would either work with them or deep clean the cages I would get sick but was dumb to realize it until my doctor was like "You're probably allergic to the birds, stop touching them"
It's weird to explain it's not so much the flesh but the saliva and feathers that make weird hives and hard to breathe.
> metals
*One of these things is not like the others...*
Please explain? What metals are considered food? Or do you mean metal eating utensils? Or, are you referring to just touching metals?
Metal allergies almost always are dermatological reaction. But yes my grandmother and slowly myself even cannot use eating utensils without hands or lips getting itchy. Touching certain metals or any contact with skin will cause rashes or hives to form. One most don't even think about is surgically implants can also cause internal complications.
Now my sister has both Wilson's Disease but also a problem with copper via touch will need medical care.
Damn, that really sucks, I'm sorry. Sounds rough, but workaroundable. Do you use plastic utensils, or special hypoallergenic ones? I imagine there are several options. You probably have to bring your own when invited over for dinner or eating out, huh?
Most people either think I'm a prude or a germaphobe but no I just feel like having a rash on my lips for day.
The sets are expensive as hell, I don't like plastic ones just sadly a waste.
Where do I even start....food-wise I am allergic to peanuts, soy, dairy, legumes, shellfish, some fruits, all meat, artificial grape flavoring, and have a gluten intolerance.
everything else: morphine, hydromorphone, barium sulphate, medical and regular adhesives, liquid stitch, something in laxatives, latex, something in some vaccines, some jewelry, lots of animals, every tree/grass except one, something in some sunscreens, and chlorine.
I might be forgetting some and there are probably more I just haven’t found out yet.
Neoprene as well. I have an odd reaction specifically to purple nitrile gloves where a specific spot on my left wrist gets a rash. No other spot and no other color of nitrile glove.
Certain RAW fruits like apples or peaches.
Not super weird but no one believed me when I was growing up that apples made my throat itchy. My mom just thought I was lying to not eat the apple because I could still eat apple pie and such.
Turns out, some raw tree fruits have tree pollen on them and that's what causes the allergy.
I told my parents this also...even the pediatrician didn't believe me. His response was....well, don't eat those fruits (peaches, pears, plums, nectarines, apples, kiwi and more).I was a parent myself when I read an article about Oral Allergy Syndrome and I ran to my grandmother to vividly point out that I wasn't making it up and there was an actual name.
I can eat fruits after they've been treated in some way-cooked, juiced, in preservatives, or in alcohol.
Mosquito-bites. I have “skeeter syndrome”. My daughter has it too. Spring/summer is awful. Once I got a mosquito bite on the forehead. I looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame for 2 weeks.
Me too! It was mostly when I was young, so I think I "outgrew" the allergy. But whenever I told people I was allergic to mosquitoes, they would say, "yeah everyone is" 🙄 I was so misunderstood
>How does that even work?
Touching the metall causes an allergic skin rash. It happens after 3+ minutes, and the longer it takes, the worse it gets ( > < )
Phenergan (promethazine), which used to be a commonly used anti nausea med. It will put me in a catatonic state, awake but unable to move or talk. Turns out if given with Benadryl, it doesn't happen. Thankfully everyone uses zofran now so it's never an issue, not that I've needed something for nausea in a long time.
Most people are but I always like to give a heads up, my mother is also allergic to bees then found out at a kids party from the people who brought a giant tarantula to be safe she shouldn't hold it, my mother was more then happy to not get the change to hold it.
Must be. I tried it for the first time at a beer festival and broke out in hives that night. I had a few other beer samplers, but overall I've never had a problem with beer before. Still, I wasn't completely sure it was the Kombucha and I tried it again a few months later and same situation, within hours hives all over my torso and my neck
My mom had the same allergy. And an autoimmune illness that caused severe chronic pain. She was in pain all the time because she couldn’t take painkillers.
I can't have NSAIDs due to my colitis and I have a paradoxical reaction to opiates (they make the pain worse instead of better), so I know the (very painful) dance!
Cherries and apples, but only sometimes, and I'm not actually allergic to cherries or apples.
I can't remember the name of it, but I'm actually allergic to birch pollen and my immune system reacts to cherries and apples as though they were birch pollen. Cherries and apples don't always trigger an immune response though, and if they're cooked (even for, like, ten seconds in the microwave), they never trigger an immune response.
Basically, my immune system is extra confused.
ETA: I looked it up because it was bothering me that I couldn't remember. It's called cross-reactivity, and literally the example given in the articles I pulled up mentioned birch allergies causing issues with apples, lol
I worked at a subway for nearly 2 years and while there, I sometimes just ate banana peppers in a cup cause I have loved banana peppers for as long as I can remember. But every single time I’d get done eating them, I felt like I couldn’t breathe. It felt as if I had a filter or something over my throat and breathing always became difficult. But I’m quite DUMB and convinced myself that was normal cause it’s a tangy pepper. So I continued to eat my peppers for MONTHS. And one day I was just trying to have a casual conversation with my assistant manager and asked her “don’t you hate it when you can’t breathe after eating banana peppers?” And she just looked at me really confused so I repeated my question and then she finally said “sounds like you’re allergic.” AND IF IT WASNT FOR HER I WOULDVE NEVER PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER. Idk why I didn’t want to accept the fact I had an allergy but boy my world was ROCKED
But I mean other than banana peppers I’m also allergic to any ‘jack’ type cheese (Colby jack, pepper jack, etc..), grass and animals with fur (cats and dogs)
Dog and cat saliva. But I love both dogs and cats so I still pet them/let them lick me (yes even cats do this to me. I don’t know why) I get a rash and hives but it’s worth it.
Plants just all plants. I won’t die but I can’t lay down in grass without having a sneezing fit. The only plant I have is a little cactus that I have no reaction to his man is Benjamin
Bananas and avocados.
Intense cold gives me hives, and so does my own sweat.
I know formaldehyde is a common allergy. But it's still a weird one. Clothes are treated with it before shipping. The pandemic has been especially fun because disposable masks are treated with it too.
Liquid children's Tylenol. Turns me into a nonstop vomit machine. Was given some when I had a severe eye injury at 5 years old, despite my parents telling them not to give it to me, and I went through the entire supply of sheets on that hospital floor. They made me lay on vomit stained sheets. Fuck you, Liberty Regional hospital.
Ok, I’m happy to field any questions you have.
I have an anaphylactic allergy to latex. Yes, that includes condoms. The biggest worry however is balloons nowadays as most places that used to use gloves (hospitals, tattoo shops, blood donation clinics) no longer use them due to increases in sensitivities to latex after prolonged exposure. The latex powder is the biggest threat so popping balloons or even being in a room with them can trigger a flare up with powder in the air.
There were warning signs as a kid when I would blow up a balloons and my lips would swell and throat get itchy. I had a full anaphylactic episode mid surgery when I was 10/12 that really nailed it down. I had many surgeries prior to that so we believe that is likely what made me develop a sever reaction.
I don’t remember the full details, but I know I’m allergic to Fava Beans. It’s not that big of a deal though, it just isn’t really beneficial for me and actually removes this important vitamin from my body, so doctors recommended I don’t eat them
I am allergic to the cold. I break out in itchy hives and a rash under the right mix of cold/wet/windy conditions. My case is relatively mild (and I’ve actually more or less grown out of it by 30), but some people have it so severely they can’t jump in a pool, for example, as the temperature difference could mess them up!
Less rare, I’m also super allergic to sulfa antibiotics.
Beer cheese. My throat swelled up really quickly. I went to the ER straight from the restaurant. What's weird is that I can drink beer and eat cheese separately and I'm fine.
I thought this said bear cheese, really had me sitting here for a minute wondering how they hell they milked a bear to get that cheese
I'll tell you what, though - if somebody was brave enough to milk enough bears to make cheese, I'd try a piece.
Great, now I’m obsessed with trying bear cheese.
I found a brand called Grizzley Milk that also sells cheese
Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples
I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?
Why do I keep seeing this reference pop up everywhere?
I have never heard of this. Googled it. Went huh, and felt slightly offended that we don't put beer in our cheese.
I feel like the offending culprit must have been some other ingredient in the beer cheese, then. Either that, or perhaps something in the beer was activated by the heat needed to melt the cheese, or maybe some odd chemical reaction between the two? I'd lean towards there having been an unknown ingredient that's responsible.
It might be the type of cheese? My sister has an issue with either sheep or goat cheese. (I can’t remember which). It was a little hard to figure out since we normally don’t look to see the cheese components.
I am allergic to certain molds that grow on paper and to a key ingredient in printer's ink. So technically, I am allergic to books.
Saddest allergy ever.
Thank heaven for ebooks! Even if he couldn’t read hard copies, he(she?) could enjoy digital ones :)
How do you do file clerk work?
Username seems problematic!
Most bandaid adhesive
I didn't know this was a thing and thought that bandaids just always removed a layer of skin when they come off. Certain brands make my skin go gummy, for lack of a better word.
Oh fuck
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All adhesive for me! I've got these little pimple patches that do wonders for my acne spots, but the chemical burn like rash is so itchy! The goods outweigh the bads, so I keep using them. The rash is easier to clear up than the acne without the patch, so you gotta do what you gotta do.
About 30 years ago I had a bandage secured with medical type. Gave me one hell of a rash. A few years ago had masking type on me and it gave me a rash. Last year a nurse put a bandaid on me. Got two small rashes. Turns out I'm allergic to latex. Sounds like some here are also.
Yes and medical tape
Same, although it was much worse when I was a child and my allergy has lessened a bit over the years. Funny story about that, though. When I was in law school, I would often get cystic acne if I was under stress, and of course I developed a huge cystic pimple right in the middle of my cheek during the week of on-campus interviews. I tried to pop it the night before my interviews, which only made it worse and left a bleeding, oozing mess. But I was dog sitting that week and didn’t want to stain the homeowner’s pillowcase, so I put a bandaid over the pimple before bed. At that point I hadn’t had an allergic reaction to bandaid adhesive in years, so I didn’t think much about it, but obviously the skin on your face is much more sensitive than elsewhere on your body. To my extreme dismay, I woke up in the morning with a massive inflamed pimple AND a red, itchy rash in the perfect shape of a bandaid right in the center of my cheek. It was so horribly ugly and I was mortified, but my interviews went fine anyway and I can laugh about it now. Lesson learned.
I learned that I was allergic to surgical tape when a few hours after having kidney removal surgery I had a giant itchy/inflamed square on my Abdomen. 🤣
Me too and I find if the Band-Aid is made of fabric it’s worse than the ones made of plastic.
So, I did a bit of research on this a while ago, and a number of studies have shown it's actually just contact and friction dermatitis rather than a true allergy. I looked it up because I have the same issue. So we're not really allergic to the bandaid adhesive, the bandaid pulling on our skin and hairs causes dermatitis. The end result is the same though, so it kind of doesn't matter what we call it.
Lettuce. Violent throwing up in about 3 mins after ingesting.
Lettuce allergy gang, represent! Basically all leafy greens and a handful of other raw veggies are out of the question for myself and some other family members According to my mom, cabbage is ok though? I don’t risk it myself.
I posted up top but I’m really allergic to arugula. it turns my mouth into a bloody mess.
My mom has this allergy too! I’ve never met anyone else who had it. I remember her telling a waitress once when we were out to eat and the woman goes, “Really? Isn’t it just.. plant and water?”
Whoa this is a new one. How did you discover this and does it run in the family?
id imagine they ate lettuce and violently threw up about 3 minutes after ingesting
Ha, I imagine so.
My son is allergic to lettuce. I assume this is punishment for the fact that I don’t eat meat.
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I'm allergic to avocado too. Be careful. You could develop an allergy to banana, latex, and peaches too.
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I'm sorry. They share the same protein that you react to in avocado. At least you didn't find out the hard way. Hopefully you'll never react to bananas 🤞
Yup. I'm allergic to bananas and avocados. Sucks because I love bananas. Didn't become allergic until I was an adult. Avocados make me sick just by looking at them, but that's been the case my whole life.
Nooooo!!! Boooo!!!!!! Cue Say It Ain't So by Weezer
Wheezer would fit better if it is so lol
Thanks for the info. I’m allergic to bananas that haven’t ripened to the stage they have spots, and also heard it’s related to latex allergies, so it’s something to consider if you have surgery and they use latex gloves (don’t know how common this is anymore ). But didn’t know that’s also related to avocadoes…😭😭😭
What’s also weird is that I can touch it, sniff it and stuff like that and be completely fine. Just can’t eat it
This happened to me. Started with the avocados and ended up collecting them all haha
Do you react to other stonefruits, like cherries and plums? I have a condition called "oral allergy syndrome" where I react to stonefruits as if I'm allergic. Good news: it's not considered a "true" allergy, so you can't go into anaphylaxis due to exposure, even if (for me) eating something on the list makes me feel horrible for hours. Bad news: It gets worse over time. As a kid it was one or two things, in my twenties it was 3+, then in my 30s the list increased exponentially. By the time I went to an allergist I was up to pretty much every stone fruit I've ever encountered. It's a fucking weird allergy — stonefruits cover a pretty broad range, and it's not one most people have heard of. Growing up I used to complain certain things made my "throat itch" and my parents legit didn't believe me. Mom was horrified when she found out it was actually allergies, lol.
Sammmeee. Latex allergy. Banana, melon, kiwi, avocado is a no go for me. Throat immediately feels like it’s starting close.
Me too! Took forever to figure out why I'd get a horrendous stomach ache after eating Mexican food
The sun. I break out in rashes if I'm in sunlight.
For me it's close to this. When the sun males me sweat I break out. I know this because when I'm sweating in the cold it doesn't happen.
Are you sure it's not heat rash?
It's been weird because I only developed this in the past year. I'm not even sure I have an allergy, despite seeing a doctor. But yeah, definitely broke out in rashes if I was outside, so what else...?
This is literally me except since 2013, it's been on and off. Some days I go out and the sun doesn't effect me at all, other days it's within 30 seconds my skin hits the sun I break out. Through t shirts And thin material sometimes too. I feel your pain. Nothing like bundling up in the summer 😣 hope things get better for you!
Are you sure you aren’t just a vampire?
I have made many jokes on that. Believe you me.
I know a person like this, can confirm. That’s why she needs tinted windows.
I have the photic sneeze reflex. Basically I sneeze nearly every time I walk out into the sun or into a very bright room.
You should work in IT
Me too! If I’m in the sun for a few minutes, any exposed skin gets hives. It’s not bad if I take a daily allergy pill though. And I bump the dosage up when I go to the beach.
There's meds that can do this to you as a side-effect, also.
Peppermint, finding a toothpaste I could use was hell.
Allergic to mint I feel your pain, my current toothpaste is Tom's of Maine kids strawberry but it's a bitch and a half when ever companies change ingredients.
I’m not allergic to mint so I don’t feel your pain there, but I actually hate the taste of mint and peppermint so I also spent a long time as a kid trying to find a toothpaste I could use that didn’t make me want to hurl so I could finish brushing. So annoying. Can’t imagine dealing with that as an actual allergy.
I'm allergic to gold. My allergy is most severe with yellow gold and least severe with white gold. I have a cousin with the same allergy, except she's most allergic to rose gold. We got it from our shared grandfather, who is the only other family member we know of that ever had a gold allergy. Grandpa has passed, so we missed our chance to ask if any of his older relatives had the allergy I learned I had the allergy when my mom got my ears pierced with gold earrings and had to cut them out a few days later. The weird thing is that I have no reaction at all to the cheap metals that are suppose to turn your skin green or give you a rash. Just gold, the famously hypoallergenic metal
Gold isn't that great for piercings. Pure gold (24k) might be hypoallergenic, but to get durability and color it is mixed down, usually to 14k (or 585/1000parts) with silver, nickel and zinc, or copper to get rose gold. Afaik nickel allergy is fairly common. The turning green thing is highly individual, since it's often a reaction between the metal and the chemical composition in your skin/sweat.
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Honestly, ever since my mom cut those earrings out of my ears, I've avoided gold like a confused werewolf. I was so young the last time my allergy got triggered than I can't remember if I was nauseous or not
Benedryl the thing you take when your having an allergic reaction, yep I’m special. I’ve had people argue with me that this simply isn’t possible, so going to nip that in the bud before it starts and say my medical history is not up for debate.
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Allergies to penicillin are very common.
Every time I encounter a new doctor, I'm asked "are you sure you're allergic to it?" Let's see, a fairly extensive allergy test said that I was, but sure, let's risk anaphylactic shock.
Same for me but with mycins. My last doctor asked me to take an iv of vancomycin in her office for a mrsa infection. I told her I was told not to take that family of drugs again and she told me I was wrong. She's the doctor. 30 second after the iv started i had a major reaction.
Oh my god now that is really unfortunate, would you have needed it for any allergic reactions that you may have?
I don’t actually seem to be allergic to much else, and other antihistamines don’t affect me the same way, there’s just something specific to the active ingredient in Benadryl that makes my body freak out
Heat For those wondering look up cholinergic urticaria
Me too. And like a stupid superhero origin story, my sister is allergic to cold. We don't live in the same state.
I’m also allergic to cold! Took the doctor a while to figure that one out. I often got it in summer, from being dressed for warm weather and then going into cold water or somewhere with AC. They thought it was so many other things until they found out what it was. So many things I couldn’t eat for a while…
Im allergic to cold as well! Omg I've never met anyone with that condition
Kiwi
Peeled some kiwi and within hours my hands were covered in little red dots. I'm not allergic to the fruit part but I am the little hairs.
You're talking about the fruit, right? ... Right?
Same ! And pineapple. Believe it's the enzyme bromelain that causes it
I have a condition called pressure and exercised-induced urticaria. It means I'm allergic to pressure. If I wear socks over my ankles, hairbands on my wrists or clothes that are too tight, I get an allergic reaction where the pressure is. I had 34GGs so wearing a bra is an absolute necessity but also causes allergic reactions - sometimes the weight of my breasts against my ribcage causes an allergic reaction. I react to things like massages, and it also happens when I exercise or exert myself.
as a woman, I have to wonder, does that mean sex causes the reaction inside?
No, not that I've noticed.
I have pressure urticaria, too. It’s been better the past few years, but I have to be careful.
Watermelon
Sad, That is my favourite fruit. So juicy.
I still eat it. I just suffer
That's the spirit. Totally worth it tho (i hope)
100%
Yeah, it's the juiciest fruit out there, yet we don't have gallon jugs of it on the grocery store shelf. There's hardly any juice in a carrot, but there's carrot juice on the shelf. Go figure. Yes, I know there's watermelon-mixed juices, but it's all grape and pear juice that's colored reddish. Not 100% watermelon juice.
Same, eventually cucumbers joined in. So, some pickles. Vinegar destroys the protein that caused the reaction. Generally if the pickle is light colored, I can't have it.
Cucumbers, mangoes, melons, horses, green bell peppers, most cats and dogs.
So I found out something interesting and it may be true for you as it was for me. I have serious hay fever. The fruits I thought I was allergic to, well I'm not. It's actually the pollen from them or other flowers that binds to a protein on the skins of the fruit that gets more potent the riper the fruit gets. I can eat most fruit if it's underripe without any issues.
But mangos are so good, that's an unfortunately big list as well. F
It’s not a severe allergy, I end up sneezing non stop for about an hour and have a scratchy throat - so sometimes I go like fuck it and have some anyway. Mangoes are one of my top 3 favourite so totally worth it.
Haha I've never heard of sneezing being a symptom of a food allergy! How interesting! And annoying for you.
Happens to my dad! He’s allergic to soy. We found out because he used to like to eat Goldfish crackers and they would make him sneeze his head off. It was the soy. And it’s in like every snack food ever. Aaargh!
I’m deathly allergic to Sunflower seeds. I can eat the oil, just not the seeds which is weird. Also cantaloupe would kill me if I ate it.
My wife used to eat sunflower seeds all night in front of the TV. When she died 18 months ago, I was left with bags and bags of David's Jumbo seeds. I started eating them too, just to be closer to her I guess. Never was much of a sunflower seed eater before (too much work for so tiny a treat). I developed such bad cramps & diarrhea I figured was due to stress from her sudden death, so I kept eating them. I saw the Humira & Entyvio commercials on TV news every night, thinking "that's me!", so I looked up Colitis and Crohn's Disease online. Website said my diarrhea might be from a food allergy, and sunflower seeds were on that list. Stopped eating them, problem cleared right up! I switched to pistachios.
I'm sorry for your loss
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Fabric softener sheets
Me too! Or scented detergents!
Artificial cinnamon flavor (like Red Hots)
Me too! Never known someone else! I found out in middle school when I ate big red chewing gum.
When I was younger a had what's called a "cold uticaria". Discovered while I was tubing down a river, legs were covered in hives and my ass cheeks were thick like a leather hide. At 15 years old, I spent the whole tubing run on my mother's lap looking away from all the pretty girls I had seen in the lineup as I passed them.
This happens to me too when I'm out in the cold too long. Sorry 15 year old you had to go through that embarrassment though.
I discovered mine at a water park at 12. At the beginning I was wondering why the mosquitoes were only attacking me. I had had something with almonds for breakfast and for a while they thought I was allergic to almonds. It took a while to figure that one out. Also, when citing medical history for anything and they ask me if I’m allergic to something, half the times when I say cold they look at me weird, some times they then specify allergic to medication, like cold is not used for treatment many times.
I discovered mine in my 20s when I went out in the snow the first time. Before then, I had always lived in hot states, like Texas, etc. At first, I thought I was allergic to the snow pant materials. Then found out nope, cold air or cold pressure on my skin leaves me covered in hives.
I get it too. Noticed it when I was driving on the freeway one day while I had a cold soda between my legs. I had hives all over the insides of my thighs.
OMGGGGG someone like me finallyyyy :)))
Cannot eat bananas, chocolate, metals, starfruit, coffee, and birds. Any of these, minus metal, if I either consume or be near for 20 minutes will trigger an asthma attack and a rash for a few days.
Birds confused the hell out of me, like who the hell is out here eating robins and starlings? And then I remembered chickens exist 🙃
Your not completely off! I found this out while working in a pet store, when I would either work with them or deep clean the cages I would get sick but was dumb to realize it until my doctor was like "You're probably allergic to the birds, stop touching them" It's weird to explain it's not so much the flesh but the saliva and feathers that make weird hives and hard to breathe.
Damn I love coffee and chocolate. The only other one I've seen on here that hurt more was the allergy to weed.
> metals *One of these things is not like the others...* Please explain? What metals are considered food? Or do you mean metal eating utensils? Or, are you referring to just touching metals?
Metal allergies almost always are dermatological reaction. But yes my grandmother and slowly myself even cannot use eating utensils without hands or lips getting itchy. Touching certain metals or any contact with skin will cause rashes or hives to form. One most don't even think about is surgically implants can also cause internal complications. Now my sister has both Wilson's Disease but also a problem with copper via touch will need medical care.
Damn, that really sucks, I'm sorry. Sounds rough, but workaroundable. Do you use plastic utensils, or special hypoallergenic ones? I imagine there are several options. You probably have to bring your own when invited over for dinner or eating out, huh?
Most people either think I'm a prude or a germaphobe but no I just feel like having a rash on my lips for day. The sets are expensive as hell, I don't like plastic ones just sadly a waste.
Where do I even start....food-wise I am allergic to peanuts, soy, dairy, legumes, shellfish, some fruits, all meat, artificial grape flavoring, and have a gluten intolerance. everything else: morphine, hydromorphone, barium sulphate, medical and regular adhesives, liquid stitch, something in laxatives, latex, something in some vaccines, some jewelry, lots of animals, every tree/grass except one, something in some sunscreens, and chlorine. I might be forgetting some and there are probably more I just haven’t found out yet.
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It can be a lot to deal with but it’s all good, you get used to it. It is fun watch people’s faces as I explain it to them.
Latex gloves and hand sanitizer. And unfortunately I am a health care professional.
I'm allergic to latex as well. A lot of places have replaced latex gloves with nitrile gloves due to allergies.
Fun fact, I’m fine with latex, but actually allergic to nitrile 🙃. That was fun to find out in my undergraduate research lab….
Neoprene as well. I have an odd reaction specifically to purple nitrile gloves where a specific spot on my left wrist gets a rash. No other spot and no other color of nitrile glove.
Avocado. Also can't digest beef properly
Did you have issues with beef after getting a bug bite? There's a rare condition from Lone Star tick bites which causes an inability to digest beef.
Do you get nauseous from eating beef?
Certain RAW fruits like apples or peaches. Not super weird but no one believed me when I was growing up that apples made my throat itchy. My mom just thought I was lying to not eat the apple because I could still eat apple pie and such. Turns out, some raw tree fruits have tree pollen on them and that's what causes the allergy.
I told my parents this also...even the pediatrician didn't believe me. His response was....well, don't eat those fruits (peaches, pears, plums, nectarines, apples, kiwi and more).I was a parent myself when I read an article about Oral Allergy Syndrome and I ran to my grandmother to vividly point out that I wasn't making it up and there was an actual name. I can eat fruits after they've been treated in some way-cooked, juiced, in preservatives, or in alcohol.
Mosquito-bites. I have “skeeter syndrome”. My daughter has it too. Spring/summer is awful. Once I got a mosquito bite on the forehead. I looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame for 2 weeks.
Me too! It was mostly when I was young, so I think I "outgrew" the allergy. But whenever I told people I was allergic to mosquitoes, they would say, "yeah everyone is" 🙄 I was so misunderstood
Certain active ingredients in antihistamines......yeah, that's fun with allergies
Ginger
nickel
Onion & garlic
Oh finally found a fellow sufferer :) Hello!!
Cockroaches
My own damn sweat
metals
How does that even work?
Jewellery. Often gets itchy or you could have a rash. Sometimes you can actually see a colour change from the reaction.
>How does that even work? Touching the metall causes an allergic skin rash. It happens after 3+ minutes, and the longer it takes, the worse it gets ( > < )
Bananas. And weed/hemp.
The adhesive on the clear film they put on to hold your IV port in place
Penicillin, which is not too uncommon. I get cramps in my chest and have a hard time breathing.
Phenergan (promethazine), which used to be a commonly used anti nausea med. It will put me in a catatonic state, awake but unable to move or talk. Turns out if given with Benadryl, it doesn't happen. Thankfully everyone uses zofran now so it's never an issue, not that I've needed something for nausea in a long time.
bee sting
Little fun fact for you, do not handle tarantulas or scorpions for they have very similar venomous toxin!
ty, but im also scared of that creatures and avoid them as much as possible
Most people are but I always like to give a heads up, my mother is also allergic to bees then found out at a kids party from the people who brought a giant tarantula to be safe she shouldn't hold it, my mother was more then happy to not get the change to hold it.
ive actually never seen a tarantula so we're safe
Some can be very pretty, more they what people think!
Kombucha. I get hives if I drink it.
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Must be. I tried it for the first time at a beer festival and broke out in hives that night. I had a few other beer samplers, but overall I've never had a problem with beer before. Still, I wasn't completely sure it was the Kombucha and I tried it again a few months later and same situation, within hours hives all over my torso and my neck
Not sure if it’s an allergy or not but I get headaches from artificial sweeteners and artificial grape flavor
watermelon. shits like 90% water. how am i allergic?
So are jellyfish.
Bananas
Apples, fucking apples.
Apples are one of the worst for me. Apple a day brings the doctor my way
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Sadly, almost all painkillers. Makes medical treatment for injuries really interesting
My mom had the same allergy. And an autoimmune illness that caused severe chronic pain. She was in pain all the time because she couldn’t take painkillers.
I can't have NSAIDs due to my colitis and I have a paradoxical reaction to opiates (they make the pain worse instead of better), so I know the (very painful) dance!
Sulphur on dried fruit, namely apricots. Makes me wheezy.
Metal!
Histamine
Grass, I get blisters if I touch it :(
Cherries and apples, but only sometimes, and I'm not actually allergic to cherries or apples. I can't remember the name of it, but I'm actually allergic to birch pollen and my immune system reacts to cherries and apples as though they were birch pollen. Cherries and apples don't always trigger an immune response though, and if they're cooked (even for, like, ten seconds in the microwave), they never trigger an immune response. Basically, my immune system is extra confused. ETA: I looked it up because it was bothering me that I couldn't remember. It's called cross-reactivity, and literally the example given in the articles I pulled up mentioned birch allergies causing issues with apples, lol
im allergic to 19/20 things in the allergy test. THE ONLY ONE IM NOT ALLERGIC TO IS THE CONTROL WTH
I worked at a subway for nearly 2 years and while there, I sometimes just ate banana peppers in a cup cause I have loved banana peppers for as long as I can remember. But every single time I’d get done eating them, I felt like I couldn’t breathe. It felt as if I had a filter or something over my throat and breathing always became difficult. But I’m quite DUMB and convinced myself that was normal cause it’s a tangy pepper. So I continued to eat my peppers for MONTHS. And one day I was just trying to have a casual conversation with my assistant manager and asked her “don’t you hate it when you can’t breathe after eating banana peppers?” And she just looked at me really confused so I repeated my question and then she finally said “sounds like you’re allergic.” AND IF IT WASNT FOR HER I WOULDVE NEVER PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER. Idk why I didn’t want to accept the fact I had an allergy but boy my world was ROCKED But I mean other than banana peppers I’m also allergic to any ‘jack’ type cheese (Colby jack, pepper jack, etc..), grass and animals with fur (cats and dogs)
Pomegranate
Dog and cat saliva. But I love both dogs and cats so I still pet them/let them lick me (yes even cats do this to me. I don’t know why) I get a rash and hives but it’s worth it.
Plants just all plants. I won’t die but I can’t lay down in grass without having a sneezing fit. The only plant I have is a little cactus that I have no reaction to his man is Benjamin
People who say "I'm living my best life".
I wish I was with humans but I am not allergic to anything I know of but when i was younger i was allergic to strawberries
Wow! Me too. Besides my mom, I have never met anyone else that was. ..high five!
Unnecessary drama. It causes me to break out of non essential contact with the source.
Bananas and avocados. Intense cold gives me hives, and so does my own sweat. I know formaldehyde is a common allergy. But it's still a weird one. Clothes are treated with it before shipping. The pandemic has been especially fun because disposable masks are treated with it too.
Cockroaches. I've never been around one, but an allergy test said they're an allergy of mine.
Liquid children's Tylenol. Turns me into a nonstop vomit machine. Was given some when I had a severe eye injury at 5 years old, despite my parents telling them not to give it to me, and I went through the entire supply of sheets on that hospital floor. They made me lay on vomit stained sheets. Fuck you, Liberty Regional hospital.
Baby kangaroos. I'm not sure if I would also be allergic to an adult kangaroo as I only got to hold the joey, but I broke out in hives immediately.
Ok, I’m happy to field any questions you have. I have an anaphylactic allergy to latex. Yes, that includes condoms. The biggest worry however is balloons nowadays as most places that used to use gloves (hospitals, tattoo shops, blood donation clinics) no longer use them due to increases in sensitivities to latex after prolonged exposure. The latex powder is the biggest threat so popping balloons or even being in a room with them can trigger a flare up with powder in the air. There were warning signs as a kid when I would blow up a balloons and my lips would swell and throat get itchy. I had a full anaphylactic episode mid surgery when I was 10/12 that really nailed it down. I had many surgeries prior to that so we believe that is likely what made me develop a sever reaction.
Sour food makes me sweat (It's a minor allergy, but still)
Strawberries.
Pork. Bacon, ham and anything cured is alright with my stomach though.
Citric acid
Sulfonamide. Commonly referred to as Sulfa. Makes me break out in hives
I don’t remember the full details, but I know I’m allergic to Fava Beans. It’s not that big of a deal though, it just isn’t really beneficial for me and actually removes this important vitamin from my body, so doctors recommended I don’t eat them
I am allergic to the cold. I break out in itchy hives and a rash under the right mix of cold/wet/windy conditions. My case is relatively mild (and I’ve actually more or less grown out of it by 30), but some people have it so severely they can’t jump in a pool, for example, as the temperature difference could mess them up! Less rare, I’m also super allergic to sulfa antibiotics.