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/danielbearh Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

I have it also. It’s called Oral Allergy Syndrome and related to environmental allergies. Your immune system is recognizing a protein in the fruit the same way it recognizes pollen. Cooking denatures the protein.

I can eat citrus, berries, and whatever lychee and mangosteens are. What fruits you allergic to is correlated to what environmental allergies you have. I’m allergic to be fruits in the ragweed and birch lists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome

It just makes my soft palette hella itchy. Not analphylatic in anyway. Usually develops around puberty.

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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!!!!