This past April my fiance and i were eating at a seafood place on vacation and out of nowhere i had an anaphlatic reaction. But i didnt eat any seafood it was just on my plate next to the chicken. So since then i have had a reaction at KFC were i aguess there is a seafood warning on the door. To get to the point i dont eat out, because my doctor says my food cant by in the same oil, grill,utensils. After the reaction weird things started to happen which has landed me on this board. Awaiting my lyme lab test results from my llmd. Has reactions happended to anyone else?
Posted by Ocean (Member # 3496) on :
I haven't had any allergic reactions, but shellfish is a common allergen (particularly for anaphylaxis). My aunt had never been allergic before but a few years after she underwent chemo and radiation and surgery for a deadly ovarian cancer (which would have killed her immune system), she had an anaphylactic reaction to seafood at a restaurant, and lived thankully!
I've been a vegetarian for over ten years, so I don't know if I would have a reaction or not. Please just try to be very careful when you go out to eat, if the seafood had even touched your chicken, (which is likely during the plate presentation in a busy restaurant) then it could give you the reaction easily.
I'm assuming you were given an epi pen at the hospital or by your doctor in case this happens again.
take care, Ocean
Posted by carl (Member # 16126) on :
i've become allergic to pineapples out of the blue, and bananas (mildly) over the last couple of years
Posted by bystander (Member # 11893) on :
Not food, but, suddenly, sunscreen.
Posted by TerryK (Member # 8552) on :
Developing allergies is a common side effect of lyme. Could also be related to bartonella.
If you have a leaky gut, you will develop food allergies to many foods. If I eat something often, I become allergic. I have to rotate foods in order to keep from developing allergies.
Terry
Posted by cactus (Member # 7347) on :
I'm glad to see that you're getting some responses. Thanks for posting the question!
My LLMD checked me for food allergies as well, but I had forgotten. Now that I see that mentioned, I remember...
My son has developed serious food allergies as well, and he was treated for Lyme about a year and 1/2 ago. Your post has made me realize that it could be important to mention this to our LLMD.
Have you checked out any of the food allergy support boards or FAAN? Managing food allergies can be tough, can't it?
Posted by shelly23 (Member # 16124) on :
will these allergies go away?????????
Posted by Shosty (Member # 12232) on :
This happened to both me and my daughter. I pretty much live on rice cereal and applesauce, some veg.'s and some poultry. Also have developed reactions to meds, lots of other things, via skin as well as orally.
This happened to me after I stopped taking antibiotics for Lyme for a long time. My alternative and Lyme literate MD has told me that he feels the antibiotics themselves caused the GI yeast and leaky gut that caused the allergies.
Some things you will be able to return to, even in a few weeks, and others may be permanent.
What happened to me last year was that, in ignorance, I would eat a lot of a certain food that still remained on my safe list, then would develop a reaction to that one. The list of foods I could have got really small.
Now, I make sure not to eat too much of certain things. For instance, I am okay with 1/2 banana, but not a whole. Rotating foods over a few days also helps. SO, for instance, I no longer eat blueberries 5 days in a row!
One of my new allergies is anaphylactic. Reactions to nuts have also developed that involve vomiting, so may also soon mean anaphylaxis. Also have rashes with some meds. Many foods give me a weird, painful feeling all over my head, and give me a huge surge of Lyme tingling and numbness all over. Weird!
Posted by Angelica (Member # 15601) on :
My weird allergies to food since Lyme and bart:
Prawns now gave me horrible hives so I can not eat prawns and large shrimp.
I also now have gluten intolerance. It did not show up in testing because the testing is unreliable.
Posted by Rianna (Member # 11038) on :
For some reason at my worst i became allergic to everythin but now it seems better.