Food allergies NEW at 45 yrs old!

[berettafan]

Dammit! eating some fresh caught striped bass the other night and damn if I didn't get the itchy mouth and chest pain that I used to experience with dark poultry meat.

Allergist to do full food panel. this sucks. also having trouble with turkey that was reasonably well tolerated for years. and chicken breast.

let me tell you guys these are the proteins I eat that are half decent for my health! had really been limiting red meat (though I do still love it) and felt good about that.

sucks getting old.

[vash]

i was told by someone (maybe my doc) that our allergies change every 7 years or so..

dunno.

[gsxrken]

I just read something about Lone Star tick bites and other tick borne illnesses causing similar reactions. Sounds awful. Good luck! Might want to carry an epi-pen.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

When i became allergic to avocados, throat tightened, I just kept eating them until I stopped being allergic. No way I was giving up guacamole or bacon avocado burgers.

[john70t]

Seafood may contain high levels of mercury neuro-toxins.

Listen to your body.

[berettafan]

Oh I’m going to avoid whatever comes up in the test. Too old to mess with that. Apparently it’s proteins that cause this.


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[craigster59]

I'm allergic to honey. It makes me break out in hives.

[Steve Carlton]

Sweet!

[Porsche-O-Phile]

We never heard of this stuff years ago. I'm sure the horror show that's our food supply chain has everything to do with many of these allergies, celiac, etc. cases - Monsanto and their franken-food, over-processed EVERYTHING, terrible dietary choices, etc. It's all going to come out years from now just how many people suffered and died at the hands of the corporatized food supply chain just like the tobacco industry. Maybe then people will wake up. Maybe.

[sc_rufctr]

I'm allergic to sesame seeds, walnuts & Brazil nuts! I have been for as long as I can remember.
Also, if I eat a lot of carbs I get a wheezy chest.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by berettafan

sucks getting old.

Getting old still beats the only alternative currently available.

"this too shall pass"

[74-911]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

We never heard of this stuff years ago. ... .

Back in the 1950's in the small town I grew up in there were bowls of govt. surplus peanut butter and plates with saltine crackers set out on every table in the school lunchroom. They were for any kids who had nothing else or just not enough to eat at lunch (long before all the free breakfast/lunch programs they have today), Although there could have been some I was not aware of anyone having issues with peanut allergies and PB&J sandwiches were a very common lunch for many kids.

In schools today they are almost paranoid about keeping any kind of nuts out of lunchrooms (to the point peanut butter is apparently banned in many school cafeterias) and apparently many kids have severe peanut allergies..

What gives ??

and what gives with Autism? I'm sure there were some autistic kids in school back in those days but I wasn't aware of any of them and apparently being in the autism spectrum is a common diagnosis these days. and no, let's not get started on the vaccine / anti-vaccine path.

[IROC]

Originally Posted by 74-911

What gives ??

There is a lot of evidence that this epidemic of allergies is stemming from the fact that we have become germophobes. As we tackle and defeat infectious diseases with ever-increasing cleanliness (clean drinking water, etc.), our immune systems became bored and left with not much to do. Our body's immune system is built to attack foreign intruders and when we limit those intruders through antibacterial soaps, hand wipes, keeping baby from licking the stroller wheels, etc., our body's defense systems start attacking what used to be perfectly harmless proteins. Google the "hygiene hypothesis".

Isn't it odd that this epidemic of food allergies mostly affects rich, clean, first-world countries? You don't hear about food allergies in Africa.

[livi]

Meat and certain fish reactions, like carp are not always easy to diagnos. The relevent protein families like serum albumin and parvalbumin are difficult to test in terms of clinical relevans. Not all of the reactions are true allergic, that is they are not produced by the classic Imunoglobuline E mecanisms. The standard "allergy tests" will then turn out negativ - despite the patients clinical intolerans.
Sometimes, when in doubt, I have my patients take a double dose antihistamine before eating a small portion of what ever it is they claim reactions to. If the antihistamine treatment significantly reduces the reaction two things are gained: The mechanism is likely allergic and the patient has got a tool to use when needed.

[berettafan]

Livi is there any theory being worked that suggests allergies are not a genetic flaw but actually protecting the body from some unknown more serious harm?

[mjohnson]

At 35 suddenly I couldn't eat runny egg yolks - or any sauce made with raw eggs.

Cooked eggs = we're all good.

Over easy = upper GI tract goes on lockdown until the offenders go out the way they came in. Massive cramping and related misery immediately resolved after a good puke.

I've even noticed it a little bit with duck breasts cooked rare. Must be a protein thing, but I haven't pursued it with an allergist. I sure do avoid the runny yellow stuff though...

[berettafan]

i see a difference with juicy vs dry in poultry. haven't found anything online about this yet and allergist says 'nope, proteins are proteins' but I'm thinking there is something else to it.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

When i became allergic to avocados, throat tightened, I just kept eating them until I stopped being allergic. No way I was giving up guacamole or bacon avocado burgers.

Yeah, fight it like a man! Sorta like when I feel myself getting sick I drink more whiskey.

[livi]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Livi is there any theory being worked that suggests allergies are not a genetic flaw but actually protecting the body from some unknown more serious harm?

No, not as far as I am aware. The most popular theory so far refers to a changing environment. Its not flawless but logic. The immune system is designed to recognice and fight microorganisms or all kinds. Bacteria, virus, fungus, parasites, worms. In western society the contact with microorganisms have been reduced substantially during the last century. We like a clean environment. Not least worm infestations are much rarer.
As it happens, the part of our immune system that is in charge of fighting worm infektions is the same system that generates allergies.
The less those guys are occupied fighting worms, the more restless and bored they get. All of a sudden they start to see wormlike substances everywhere- be it, in fact, peanuts, grass, milk, dustmite, dogs, fish.

[livi]

Originally Posted by berettafan

i see a difference with juicy vs dry in poultry. haven't found anything online about this yet and allergist says 'nope, proteins are proteins' but I'm thinking there is something else to it.

Just speculating, but could it have something to do with how the food is prepared. Its well known that some proteins are heat sensitive. Being degraded when coooked. The more and longer cooking time the less still reactive protein left in the food.