I seem to be allergic to ...?!
Question: a lot of fruits/vegetables. my worst is bananas. i get tightness from those, any kinds of melon, carrots, raw tomatoes, green peppers, cold broccoli, and many more. what cause this?
Answers: a lot of fruits/vegetables. my worst is bananas. i get tightness from those, any kinds of melon, carrots, raw tomatoes, green peppers, cold broccoli, and many more. what cause this?
I can really sympathize with you for your plight. My pollen antibodies were very high and I was reacting to a lot of fruits and vegetables. It is very upsetting because we take those foods for granted and then there is the question of what then to eat. Allergies do change, I understand our systems entirely renew themselves every 7 years. Anyway it took a while and I did get some allergy shots for a few years and I can say that I am eating most fruits and vegetables but not bananas (they give me a hot welty rash) and not tomatoes and green peppers.
My allergist also said that cooked food takes the allergic qualities down by about half because it changes the protein in the food when it is cooked. The only one that gets worse he says is peanuts. So like tomato sauce or if you cook your own tomato sauce then it might be easier to take in cooked form. Don't forget to try and rotate foods.
Also food families can be a problem in that when I would react to one food in a family say beans, you can react to the rest of the foods in that family. Say peppers is a member of the nightshade family. So you could google all those in that food family and see if you react somewhat to those too. I did get better but it took a lot of research on my part and just some time and allergy shots. Good luck to you I know how stressful it is and how people can be really insensitive because they (in my case anyway) think that this is more hysteria then reality but again it just goes to show you how we take for granted the basic foods that we consume. Feel free to email me if you want
The reason people have allergies is because their body mounts an immune response to things that it shouldn't mount an immune response to. Or because the immune response gets out of hand.
Your genetics make it so that your cells recognize something in the things you are allergic to and see it as something dangerous. Your body goes into overdrive to fight the 'invader' or foreign substance.
Some people are allergic to drugs like penicillin. People are allergic to a lot of different things.
It is best to avoid things that cause the allergic reaction. You cannot do much about it, unless you want to give yourself an epi-pen shot every time you want to eat something like that.
Also, the more you expose yourself to the allergen the worse it will get. It is best to avoid the things you think you are allergic to.
Sometimes people grow out of allergies, especially to things like bee stings. It could go away as you get older, but it's best not to push your luck so that you can avoid an anaphylactic shock, which can kill you.
Amy Z has it right ... Pollen for e.g is perfectly safe yet our bodies consider it a Threat. When your allergic to it the Bodies response is to release massive ammounts of Histimine resulting in the sufferer to become Ill.. Thats why you have to counter react this by takeing Anti Histimines ... Scientists are not sure why our Bodies consider what is a perfectly safe food as a threat.. One idea being put forward by some sciectists is that these days we are all too clean... We are useing all sorts of products to kill Germs and that we shower too much ... Being exposed to these Bacteria can build up our Immune systems but because we do not expose ourselfs to these germs anymore our Bodies are now turning to harmless things considering them as threats when in fact they are absolutly harmless... I accept this theory myself and I believe in time it will be proved to be Fact...