allergic but do you still eat it

I can appreciate how you feel as I am on a restricted diet due to digestive problems that led to esophagus problems and have to deal with chronic heartburn whether I eat or refrain. There are so many food that I can't eat anymore and how I miss them. Yesterday I was visiting my father and they were eating baked lasagna with peperoni and it looked so good and smelled so good but all I could do was watch them enjoy themselves and I had to eat different foods. But I feel good I resisted as I know what those foods will do to me. Ah, the good old days!

I am highly allergic to any type of seafood and since it was discovered I keep far far away. Luckily for me I was already in the hospital when I was injected with cat scan dye which it's ingredients are from fish oil and I went into shock. I could no longer breath, my neck swelled and I was paralyzed all over. This quite an experience so I keep all fishy including live one away from me.

My dad used to eat shrimp and other seafood just fine. Then one night when he was out of state at a conference, he had shrimp when he went out to dinner with some colleagues. Within 30 minutes his face and throat were swelling. They had to take him to the ER. Turns out he was alllergic to fish. He asked how that was possible to be able to eat it all the time, then when he was 50 to suddenly be allergic. They didn't know. A couple years later he ate a salad at someone's house and his throat starting closing up again. He couldn't figure out what caused it until someone told him the hostess had put in tiny bits of shrimp in the salad. So it wasn't a fluke. He really is allergic to the stuff.

I have to eat food I'm allergic to, because if I don't, I wouldn't have anything to eat at all I don't however, eat certain foods: corn, peppers, peaches, bananas, mangoes (they smell like peaches) because they will either cause a severe reaction, or I've been put off because they have caused bad reactions in the past.

I am not allergic to anything, but I think if I was I would not eat it because it could hurt me or make me uncomfortable and I don't like being uncomfortable. Soda seems to give me really bad heart burn and although I love the taste of it I am going to stop drinking it because it is not worth the burning feeling I get in my chest when I drink it. So I don't think I would eat something that I am allergic to.

The only things that i can not eat is dried fruit,like currants and saltanas.The reason that i can not eat dried fruit is that it makes me come out blotchy and makes me itch.I do not like dried fruit anyway,so that do not bother me one bit.Other than that nothing else.

I love spicy fod to and drink some milk wit it to cool mouth and tummy off

you find out the proper reason for your tongue and throat getting hot...i too had similar problem...when i consulted ENT specialist...i feared that i have some serious ulcers etc in my mouth...but i was anemic and it was such a simple reason why i couldn't eat spicy things and sauces with more chillies...i took iron supplement regularly...and now I enjoy my food as ever....about nuts...i feel that after a particular age you can't digest too many of them...the young people can digest them easily...but women after having children etc have this problem...thi sis what I personally think...maybe the doctor can you give u the more accurate reason and also the solution

yea,i do with clams. i have a shellfish allergy and clams are the least reactive. i get some stomach discomfort,but they're too good to give up.it's worth it!

Hi. doormouse. My grandmother told me and my sister that we were allergic to tomatoes and oranges. But I still do eat them. I just don't eat them as much though. Sometimes it is very hard to put down what we really love.

I am lucky that I am not allergic where a certain food could cause severe consequences. But my body does react to certain food like nuts, seafood and such. Usually it would only cause pimple or itchy. But that doesn't stop me from eating them. For seafood I already ask the pharmacy for medicine.

As far as food goes, I don't think that there are any foods that I am allergic to. However, I am mildly allergic to chlorine, but that has never kept me out of a swimming pool. When I am in a pool with chlorine, I will get red all over my body and I will get itchy. This is typically remedied with some Benedryl and a shower as soon as I get out of the water. It really stinks to have to go through this, but I couldn't imagine my life without being able to get into a swimming pool from time to time.

I am one of the few ones who have no allergies, or at least none that I know off. So, I've never known of holding off on a particular kind of food. And I guess that's my problem. I eat things that I shouldn't be eating anymore. I'm trying to be healthy, it's just a bit hard. I hope your ok with your symptons now.

Hehe. :3 I'm allergic to most citrus and fruit juice but that doesn't mean I won't eat citrus or drink fruit juice. Fruit is my second favourite type of food other than red meat and I'm not gonna stop eating and drinking it. If I eat too much then I have an allergic reaction that is not serious but rather frustrating. I get a very itchy throat and my lips puff up and with pineapple they ooze blood and split. I still eat it, though.

I am not aware of being allergic to any food. I would probably still eat the occasional spicy food, because I also believe that the spices are healthy. On the other hand, nut allergy can go to anaphylactic shock easily, and I would avoid them.

doormouse I have all my life loved chinese cooking and would go f or moo goo gai pan a nd chop suey and other dishes. no problem but one day I got so sick after my moo goo gai pan, The pharmacy where i got my meds was just a fews step away. I managed to walk into the pharmacy and up to the desk where they filled prescriptions. Then I collapsed, barely able to breathe, the paramedics came, asked me what I had ate and they knew at once monosodium glutamate, it was in the moo goo gai pan. Oh my so on the way to the Er they aLready had me hooked up to an Iv of heavy duty antiallergric medication then at the E R I was checked and given more benadryl per IV. Also I was told I must never ever eat any food with MSG in it as long as I lived so I only go to chinese restaurants that display the signe we do not use MSG.Also I check the labels on any canned food that is chinese style food. I am very caReful whaT I eat now. That day my throat and tongue had swollen so much I could hardly breathe, that was really so scary !!!

I'm allergic to nuts myself and I tend to avoid them like the plague. If one nut manages to gain access to my system then I will definitely know about it. I start feeling very sick and then I vomit a lot until the whole episode is over and my system has recovered. I have to be very careful about eating certain foods and whenever I am puchasing groceries I make sure that I always check the ingredients very carefully on the packet. I don't like curries so much, I find them too spicy at the best of times. I think I heard somewhere that if you try a little of what you are allergic to eventually your system will tell you that it's ok to finally start eating that product. I don't think I will ever try this with nuts, they are just too dangerous for me in my view. I will just avoid them for the rest of my days. Andrew

i am stubborn, too. i still eat food that i am allergic, too. it is so frustrating that you love these food and you cant indulge!

Well, i eat everything i like within the limits.

I'm allergic with fish and sea foods but I still eat them since I love them so much. Anyways, if I get red rashes all over my face and body I just pop pills in my mouth and whalla after couple of hours I'm good.