KarenGlad;49686 wrote:For those unfortunate souls with real food allergies and sensitivities, including me….Susie Middleton aka sixburnersue recently wrote a very informative post on her blog (substack) regarding her recent food allergy experience. Sorry, I’m not savvy enough to include a link here but I’m sure if you google it you’ll find it. I think you might have to register but you can be a free subscriber. It’s worth reading even if you don’t have an allergy yourself….you might be with someone who is or it could happen to you, unexpectedly any time. It did to me.
Thank you. Very good article. She outlined many points which were adressed by my allergist. Like her, I have asthma and also went through monthly allergy shots in my younger years but I discontinued the shots thinking my nasal issues were behind me as I've gotten older.
I don't recall if there was any mention of cross pollination with seasonality in her article. I was told that melons might affect me more during Fall seasons due to ragweed pollens starting in late August. I first noticed considerable scratchy throat from eating honeydew melons in early September.
With drug related allergic reactions, I've experienced both the life threatening immediate reaction kind like complete throat closue and immediate drop in blood pressure as well as symptoms coming on after 24 hours like contrast dye and all those other intermediate time frame and symptoms from drugs. Very scary.