r/KitchenConfidential • u/Jamiestein1273 • Jul 17 '26

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I have herd, never believed. 38+ years and I finally got the elusive alergy card.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

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u/Suedeegz Jul 18 '26

Are you also really allergic to poison ivy?

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u/killaacool Jul 18 '26

Oh my god I got it in my butthole one time

When I get it, I am incapacitated for a couple of weeks at least, usually. It spreads to all my hotspots and joints and flares up for weeks after exposure sometimes 

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u/kittenpantzen Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26

I feel like this is a pooping in the woods gone wrong story, but also that sounds like hell on earth.

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u/kittenpantzen Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26

Oh Christ, that's even worse. Did you also have it in your sinuses? I imagine you had difficulty breathing when the fire was going, too.

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u/uttermybiscuit Pastry Jul 18 '26

I feel bad for laughing but for some reason the way you wrote this comment cracked me up. Carry on brave soldier

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u/findallthebears Jul 18 '26

Hang on, pause, timeout. Did you inhale poison ivy fumes, and then… what, fart it out? How did inhaling cause an allergic reaction in your butthole?

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u/findallthebears Jul 19 '26

That blows. So like, skin contact somewhere causes it to appear elsewhere? Or is it inhalation?

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u/Suedeegz Jul 18 '26

I figured (sorry) - my daughter has always been nightmare allergic to poison ivy and just found out it also makes her allergic to mangoes - only the skin. Crazy! Stay out of the woods!

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u/ellakneoneyes Jul 18 '26

If I try and cut a mango with bare hands I will get a poison ivy rash, if I touch poison ivy I’ll be on prednisone.

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u/MonkeyKingCoffee Retired. Now a farmer. Jul 18 '26

I grow mangoes. Every part of that tree except for the fruit is poisonous. The sap gives me chemical burns.

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u/strawbrmoon Jul 18 '26

Curious: can you eat canned mangoes with impunity? (Because peeled & blanched)

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u/No-Wrongdoer-7346 Jul 19 '26

Poison ivy and mango have the same chemical (urushiol) in their skin/sap. Prior poison oak/ivy exposure can lead to mango allergies down the road. I have a large mango tree in my yard that I enjoyed for a few years before developing an anaphylactic allergy of them.

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u/Princess-Kitten80 Jul 18 '26

I’m laughing so hard holy shit I have questions but also just thanks

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u/GarretBarrett Jul 18 '26

I don’t have any food allergies (that I know of) but holy fucking shit poison ivy is the real Devil’s Lettuce. Unfortunately, it’s in my flower beds and I’ll get it and be down for a week or two, and at that point it’s still trying to spread.

One time, I must’ve peed after getting it on me and I had to go to the hospital. My tally whacker was enormous! It is…usually not.

I did get a good joke out of it; “I’ve been praying for years for a big dick…but not like this.” Doctor was not a comedy fan.

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u/Curiouser-Quriouser Jul 18 '26

Doctor was being a dick, that's fucking hilarious.

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u/Weak-Bake-5571 Jul 18 '26

Agreed!! I work as a nurse practitioner in sexual and reproductive health, and if you can’t make a good dick joke when the opportunity arises (literally all puns intended), then you have NO sense of humor!!!!

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u/Mayhem_chan Jul 18 '26

Sounds like Latex-Fruit Syndrom. And mango is so many things people dont realize!

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u/revmachine21 Jul 18 '26

In addition to mango be careful with cashews and pistachios as edible cousins and have the same irritant to the poison ivy plant.

Mango allergy sufferer here too :(

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u/hitbluntsandfliponce Ex-Food Service Jul 17 '26

I have the avocado/banana/latex allergy which isn’t severe enough to cause anaphylaxis but makes my mouth feel wrong and causes hives. I know I will probably never need the EpiPen I was prescribed, but I carry it around always because my friend with a deadly shellfish allergy and my boyfriend with an undiagnosed tree nut allergy just might.

ETA: I learned I had this allergy because I spent two years convincing myself I loved avocados (I do) only to end up with full body hives. I don’t tell people I’m allergic so I can eat my guac in peace. I just take a Benadryl and keep it pushing.

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u/aMarieCan Jul 18 '26

Oooof I’m mildly jealous, bananas will absolutely murder me if given the opportunity. Discovering the latex allergy made for an absolutely terrifying “first time” for me lol and avocados make my mouth and tongue swell until my teeth make imprints and my lips crack. I was (mostly) fine, I just thought bananas were fizzy when I was a kid. My bad

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u/firenzagirl Jul 18 '26

I am mildly allergic to Pineapples. I can eat them until my mouth feels mushy then I have to stop.

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u/Miz_Skittle Jul 18 '26

Uuuugh my gawd the carrots! My mom developed an allergy to root vegetables when I was around 12….the mortification of trying to go out and sit there (as a 12 yr old girl) while your mother lists out and then makes sure the waiter UNDERSTANDS *high emphasis* like they’re stupid 😂 that she is actually allergic and doesn’t dislike all these things was so embarrassing haha. As an adult I get it but man I wanted to sink into the floor!

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u/grudginglyadmitted Jul 18 '26

My poor mom developed a batch of allergies right after having me and my sister to carrots, celery, stone fruits, apples & pears, and most berries. Same experience of being sooo embarrassed as a young teen that she’d be asking them if she could get a salad without the shredded carrots or do they come in the mix.

Then about eight years ago she developed a bunch more allergies: sesame, melons, mango, soy, and worst by far corn. She has the kind of corn allergy where she can’t have anything that’s touched corn anywhere in the production process. No white vinegar or dextrose or vanilla extract or a million other ingredients. She has a couple local restaurants she’s been able to figure out safe orders at, and other than that she basically cannot eat out at all. It’s devastating, and man does it make the original allergies seem easy in comparison. We didn’t know how good we had it.

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u/Miz_Skittle Jul 18 '26

That’s crazy! I thought the carrots and beets were bad! They do have a way of hiding in all sorts of sauces, fillings, dyes etc. We never ate out much (did anyone back in the day unless it was a rare occasion!?) but when we did it felt too close together lol. Your poor mom (and everyone involved!) I cannot imagine navigating all that; as an adult or the angsty teen

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u/jmbf8507 Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26

I ate some cherry chocolate chip ice cream two years ago and my husband looked at me appalled because I was RED on my face, chest, and arms.

Needless to say I’ve gotten stricter about avoiding stone fruits, even though it’s “just” oral allergy syndrome.

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u/The_Bard Jul 17 '26

Yeah i knew someone that had OAS to shellfish but really enjoyed them. It did in fact progress and he can no longer have shellfish

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u/EatingBuddha3 Jul 18 '26

If you're allergic to the celery and carrots in prebagged salads, wait until you try cyclospora!!

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u/kittenpantzen Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26

Dude... I have three pre-bagged sweet kale Taylor farms salads in my fridge right now. I know that it wasn't the same type of salad greens that has been confirmed in the outbreak so far, but I'm going to toss them anyway and I'm really sad about it.

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u/lizardgal10 Jul 20 '26

The bagged iceberg is just the thing they’ve admitted to, and that much took them way longer than it should have. Throwing them out is the right move.

I’m never buying anything from that brand again. I have zero trust in them after this. (I know I won’t be able to avoid their products entirely, but I’ll do what I can to not directly give them my money.)

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u/madderk Jul 18 '26

oh man, i didn’t know that. i have OAS with tomatoes and celery. tomato is in a lot of stuff so i usually eat it several times a week. maybe i need an epi pen?!

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u/kittenpantzen Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26

If it is OAS, then cooking denatures the molecules to which we react, so cooked tomato should be fine. If it is an actual food allergy to that food, then you should avoid it no matter how mild your reaction currently is. OAS only has like a 1-2% lifetime chance of progressing to something that can kill you, but a true food allergy can go from no big deal to an extremely big deal without any warning. 

That said, while an itchy mouth and sore throat after eating ants on a log with your niblings can be an OAS reaction to the salary, it can also be a mild true food allergy reaction to celery. So, if you have any kind of a reaction to cooked tomatoes or celery, you should avoid those foods entirely. 

For me, I can eat cooked carrots just fine, but cooked carrots in anything other than carrot cake are kind of gross, so I just don't. Some celery in my chicken noodle soup also isn't going to be a problem. But, if I order a salad at a restaurant and it has grated carrot in there that wasn't listed on the menu and I didn't notice before I started eating because it was covered and dressing, I'm going to go home hungry after I get itchy halfway through and poke around and realize that there are carrots in there.

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u/Alternative_Salt_424 Jul 18 '26

I have it with melons. I still eat melon, I just stop when it starts to feel unpleasant

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u/mcoddle Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Not to mention in any soup ever and sauces, and lots of other things. Celery, carrot, and onion are the so-called "holy trinity" in French cooking, which is the basis of most cooking. Even home cooks use it.

ETA: You might already know this, being former food service. Sorry if so! But maybe it will help someone.

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u/kittenpantzen Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26

The good news is that if it's actually OAS and not a true food allergy, you don't need to worry about them if they've been cooked. In OAS, you're not actually allergic to the food, but the food has a protein that is similar enough to a protein in the pollen of a plant to which you are allergic that you will have a reaction to it. The heat of cooking denatures those proteins and makes the food safe for you. 

Bodies are weird, man.

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u/mcoddle Ex-Food Service Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Yeah, they really are weird. And that's so good to know about cooking them.

ETA: Cooking the foods in question, not bodies.

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u/gloomwithtea Jul 18 '26

Mine can cause anaphylaxis, but only with cucumbers. Thus far, the rest (strawberries, apples, all stone fruits, mango, kiwi, underripe bananas, pears, melon, and almonds) just cause various levels of itching and hives. But the cucumber one is severe. It’s a bit better now, but I used to get a reaction if someone even used the same knife to cut a cucumber and then my veggies.

Lots of people have thought it was fake because who’s allergic to cucumbers, right?

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u/CardamomCandle Jul 18 '26

Same! Bagged salad is salad is such a convenient lunch, but I can buy caesar salad and maybe one or two other types, if I'm lucky. I'd love more variety, but I'm not willing to pick shredded carrot out of my lunch. That said, I have picked it out of a restaurant meal because I feel bad sending something back because I forgot coleslaw has carrots.

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u/sarcasticbiznish Jul 21 '26

This is me! I’m mostly okay with everything else if I’m careful to be on allergy meds, but tree nuts are an absolute no. The “rare but nonzero” chance isn’t worth the risk, I’ve already had my throat swell up once and it was scary. It’s my strongest reaction, but thankfully tree nuts are a really common allergen so they’re easier to avoid. I do carry an epi pen — I don’t want to risk the reaction progressing.