
Michi8
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Are ballons related to latex? I can't be around them or I'll have trouble breathing and get choking sensations. Are there any foods related to latex. I was wondering about bananas and avocadoes. If they're not ripe I'll react funny to these foods but seems to be better if they are ripe. Was always curious why.
Gail
Hi Gail,
Yes, latex is related to banana and avocado, so not surprising you react to them. It's also related to chestnut, kiwi, mango, melon, papaya, tomato, fig, etc. For more info, I've included links to cross-reaction charts in my previous post.
Michelle
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All of those allergy items you listed are connected. I have a similar issue...the allergist called it Oral Allergy Sydrome (OAS). For me, it is all connected to my severe birch pollen allergy. The list of foods that are related is quite long, and does include wheat. For me, I simply cannot tolerate most of the raw versions of the foods (like the tree fruit and nuts), but do fine when they are cooked (except for wheat). Latex is not one of the cross-reactions to birch, but does cross react with other foods. I am allergic to some chemicals used to make latex elastic and some types of lycra/spandex materials, rather than to latex itself.
Check out these web pages for more info:
http://www.acenta.com/allergy.foodallergy.asp
http://www.tdlpathology.com/index.php?opti...&Itemid=228
Michelle
(I'm not sure exactly where to put this...)I've just made a discovery... After years of weird cycles of having unbelievable multiple food allergies, going on elimination diets, achieving a state of having good health to a point and overcoming the "food allergies," I believed that I had celiac sprue because I for sure could not tolerate wheat and when I went on a gluten-free diet, all my symptoms vastly improved. I had also fit the profile with all of my other health problems. I was tested for celiac sprue, but since I was on a gluten-free diet for several months prior to these tests, they always came back negative.
Anyways, fast forward to the present. I've been gluten-free for several years now, but my symptoms have turned for the worst and shouldn't they be getting better with a gluten-free diet, eh???? And I am developing all those d*mn food allergies again to the weirdest things, like tomatoes, potatoes, cherries, pears, apples, etc. Then I had an episode of not being able to breathe, had to dial 911, spent a night at the hospital, returned home with an even worse outbreak of hives (I was and still am breaking out in hives everyday), I've discovered that I am severely allergic to latex, and that wheat has a similar protein make-up as latex - therefore, the reason I cannot tolerate wheat. And all these other foods also share the same protein makeup with latex, as well.
So, I just thought I'd send out an FYI. If you are following a gluten-free diet, have never really been confirmed as having celiac sprue, and your symptoms are not getting any better - maybe you have a latex allergy instead.
I would much rather have celiac sprue than a latex allergy. This is plain old crazy - had to throw away all my underwear, socks, anything with spandex, elastic or lycra.... Can it get any worse than this???
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I love onions. In any form, I love them. When I recently figured out I was intolerant to raw onion (painful reflux/heartburn), I was really disappointed, but not surprised, because intolerance to onion is common in my family. I can still eat them cooked, and hope that that doesn't change!
Michelle
(who is now starting to react to raw carrot too)
confused said:Does anyone else have an intolerance to onions. I know garlic affects me and now im wondering if onions do. Last night i made some guacamole with onions. Well right after I ate them my stomach cramped so bad, i could not move and then my feet started to tingle and my legs felt funny(like i do after gluten) but i laid in bed with the heating pad and i felt somewhat better when i woke up, which i dont feel better if i have been glutened. So could this be an onion intolerance. I also woke up with bad heart burn but now is better.Does anyone else go threw this with onions.
paula
Keratosis Pilaris - Link To Celiac?
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I have KP, but have not been diagnosed celiac. The KP has be spreading since my daughter was born almost 7 years ago...now it's on my face, neck, shoulders, chest, arms and has been spreading down my back to my waist. According to doctors it's not caused by anything and is not harmful, because every test shows I'm "normal" (It's apparently not treatable either.) I think my thyroid is at the root...could be Hashis for all I know...and it's probably related to gluten intolerance. Just waiting to get sick enough for the tests to be positive so that I can erase the "hypochondriac label" I have been given, and get proper treatment. Bleh.
Michelle