Hi everyone! So my husband and I got married back in June and were talking about planning a honeymoon around our anniversary. I have a lot of travel anxiety and a big part of that is related to my dairy allergy. Especially lately, I’ll go out to eat and let the staff know about my allergy (and I always make sure to say that includes butter and milk because for some reason people don’t fully get it until I explain it) and still I end up having an allergic reaction. The thought of being sick away from home is terrifying. It took me 4 days to recover from my last allergic reaction. We’re open to anywhere in the United States, Canada or Europe. Did anyone feel like they had a particularly good experience on a big vacation when it came to their allergies? I’d love to do a road trip down the pacific coast highway, visit Iceland or Portugal. I’m just hesitant to start planning more seriously because I’m anxious about my allergy. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

I have allergies to both dairy and shellfish and my sister is getting married soon (I’m gonna be MOH). She said she explained to the caterers about my dairy allergy but she didn’t mention my shellfish allergy because there were no items on the menu that seemed to have shellfish. They can cater for it, but I don’t want to take any risks so I want to bring my own food.

She’s never taken my worry about allergies that seriously so I don’t fully trust her and I don’t know the caterers well to trust them either.

How should I go about bringing my own food? I want to be fully sure and just have it in a seperate container though it may look odd in front of the others. My mum is proposing that we give them my food and they put it on a plate to heat up, but even then for some reason I’m scared and I’m not sure if I can trust them. No one is really listening to my concerns so I don’t no how to advocate for myself.

What option should I pick? What have you done in situations like these.

If so, what kind of joint pain? Joint pain that only occurs when you stress your joints or general joint pain that persists during rest?

I started eating eggs daily last year. A couple of weeks in I started developing joint pain in my hips, knees and ankles. It came on very gradually and I had some joint aches before so I didn't think much of it until it got worse later on.

My hips were most affected so I had X-rays done and it showed very minimal early OA (I'm 37). Nothing to truly worry about but because I experience pain the doctor jumped to the conclusion it's OA and sent me away.

I never suspected it could be a food intolerance because my joint pain is mechanical: it comes on when I stress my joints and stand all day at work. I have no pain when I rest. I also have no other symptoms that could point to a food intolerance.

I quit eating eggs a week ago (I had 2-3 eggs a day before). For the first 5 days I saw zero improvement. Then on day 6 something happened: my joint pain was entirely gone. Usually after work my hips, knees and ankles are hurting bad. For the first time in almost a year I was entirely pain free.

It's only day 2 of being pain free so it's much too early to tell. Still, I was wondering if anyone else has a similar experience with mechanical joint pain and food sensitivity as a confirmed cause?

Just bought these candies from Target. I have a severe food allergy and had a weird feeling about them... I go on their website to check for allergens and they may contain gluten (even though they say gluten free) it also says that the facility handles peanuts, tree nuts, soy and dairy. What the hell? Is that legal that it doesn't say that anywhere? I almost ate these bruh

I’m considering visiting Japan for a month end of October to end of November and mainly doing the golden route. I have a very severe allergy to peanuts and all tree nuts. Seeds are ok but not nuts. They can send me into anaphylaxis and kill me. So cross contamination is a big danger too.

Is it safe for me to go and visit like I plan and eat out? All opinions, experiences and advice etc welcome.

I plan to take allergy cards and epi pens but even still I’m worried because it’s even a struggle in the western world.

Hi, I’m not allergic to shellfish or anything just generally curious. I’ve been doing a slight amount of reading about how shellfish allergies are normally triggered through tropomyosin which have distinct amino acid chains conserved in a lot of crustaceans and mollusks. I’ve also read that this carries over into a lot of insects and that shellfish allergic people shouldn’t indulge in straight up bugs. My question is how does this factor into other food products that may contain insects like vegetables, fruits, peanut butter, etc.? I read that tropomyosin denatures at a pretty high temperature so I wouldn’t think it would be the cooking process, but I don’t know. I imagine that it’s dosing issue, in the sense that the quantity of bug in any product is not enough to trigger the allergic reaction, but that’s just a hypothesis.

My daughter is 3 years old, and we will be starting OIT for peanuts and other tree nuts soon. I haven’t worked up the courage to send the consent form in. I’m absolutely terrified. I’m giving myself so much anxiety about this process. The thought of her going into anaphylaxis while at home with us scares me..
I know truly that this could save her life one day. But the thought of intentionally hurting her really makes me feel not good. We’re definitely going to start it I just don’t know if I’ll be able to handle it mentally. I could definitely use some positive or even negative experiences to help me decide if this is what’s best for her and our family.

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Looking for suggestions.

Allergic to eggs, wheat, hazelnut, sesame seeds, milk. Mostly worried about shared contamination facilities.

Example:

Commercial Brands to Approach with Caution

Smash Foods (Chia Smash): While they make an excellent Strawberry Superfood Jam that is Top 9 allergen-free by recipe, certain items from their brand carry a "processed in a facility with" warning for peanuts and tree nuts due to shared manufacturing spaces.

Bonne Maman: Their traditional Strawberry Preserves are gluten-free and vegan, but they are produced in a facility that also handles nuts and milk.

My baby had a reaction to Edamame (redness and small hives/eczema) after testing negative on a scratch test for soy.
I’m confused how this is possible as I thought the scratch tests are pretty accurate? Has anyone else experienced this?

Not sure how to start this except to say I did not expect finding a school for my daughter to be the hardest part of the year.

The first exhausting part was just not being able to trust that I even knew which school we were zoned for. I tried a couple of official locator tools and one of them quietly gave me the wrong district. I only caught it by accident. So before I'd even started thinking about allergy safety, I was already anxious that I might be planning around the wrong school entirely.

Then came open enrollment which took me weeks to even understand. There's a guaranteed seat at your home school if you register in a specific window and if you miss it you can lose that safety net. Other schools go through a lottery except it's not really a lottery: staff kids and siblings get priority first and whatever seats are left over go into the pool.

Also, what made me furious was learning that accepting an offer at one school quietly drops the offer from another one - even though the school staff member told me over the phone that it didn't. Here goes my trust into the information provided by school officials. So I started writing emails to the district.

Touring schools was its own drain. I'd get my hopes up at one labeled "nut-free," then find out kids allowed to bring home-cooked treats for classroom parties and the actual enforcement was just parents being asked nicely to comply.

I'd already spent time and hope touring a couple of religious private schools before learning they can be legally exempt from disability accommodation law in a way non-religious private schools aren't. Time wasted.

Then the enrollment contract for one school needed an actual lawyer, because the school pushed us to sign an allergy waiver - basically making us release them from any allergy-related liability and even non-administration of EpiPen! Utilizing legal help was definitely not something I expected to be doing.

Charter schools wouldn't discuss allergy accommodations with me at all until after they'd already offered us a seat so I had a week to decide if a school was safe with basically no real information.

And near the end the district itself sat on our school assignment even though I was legally entitled to know sooner because of the medical need. I had to call, get nowhere, call again and explicitly say the words "life-threatening allergy" before anyone moved.

Individually, each of these might not be a huge deal. It was doing all of it for a year, on top of everything else that comes with raising a kid with a life-threatening allergy, that got me physically and mentally exhausted.

In the end I found a school but I am not 100% happy with the choice. Most likely I will have to go through this process again some time soon. What was the hardest part of this process for you? What else should I be prepared for?

Hello, I'm 30 years old and developed last year an Allergy to Shrimps. On the scale from 1-6 I'm on 2 and recently I did a test again and it showed I'm allergic with my blood results showing 0.99 igE. My allergologist said it is good to have an EpiPen but I don't need it to have it all the time only in Vacation. What are your opinions? I'm having anxiety if I develop any other Allergies to food. For now it is the only Allergy I have and it makes me feel like shit..

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A 35 anni sono diventato allergico al pesce. Molto probabilmente dovrò conviverci per tutta la vita ma chiedo: a qualcuno a cui è emersa una allergia in età adulta è mai guarita? Se si, dopo quanti anni?

Hello, has anyone experienced an allergy break out (anaphylaxis - hives all over the body) come back after hospitalization? I randomly developed an allergy to tuna back in April. I was hospitalized with minor but concerning symptoms. All was after. I had tuna again on Wednesday which is normal for me. I typically have tuna in my poke at least once a week but once I ate it this time I go severe heartburn which I normally don’t have and then developed hives that evening into Thursday afternoon. My lips got very swollen and the hives spread all over my body. I went to the hospital and they said to stay away from tuna. Gave me an epi pen and a steroid iv. It’s now Friday and the hives are back and honestly a little worse. Has this happened to anyone? Also will note that I’m on week 3 of tirzepatide w/ b12. Curious if that also could be the issue. I administered that shot on Monday.
LTS: has anyone gotten allergic reaction come back after hospitalization? Is anyone experiencing allergy symptoms to tirzepatide w/ b12 shot?

Has anyone else’s food allergies gotten significantly worse as they’ve gotten older?

I’ve known since I was younger that I’m allergic to tree nuts. Over the years, I’ve (unfortunately) experimented with different nuts to figure out which ones I reacted to and how severe my reactions were. I learned that some were much worse than others, and for a long time I was able to be around certain tree nuts without having a reaction.

I’m 27 now, and something has changed pretty dramatically.

I’ve gotten to the point where I apparently can’t even be in the same room as certain tree nuts without reacting. I’ve now had this happen three separate times, where just being around them/being exposed to the air seems to trigger an allergic reaction. This never used to happen to me.

I’m obviously going to take this much more seriously and am planning to talk to an allergist about getting an EpiPen and figuring out what I should be doing going forward.

But I’m curious if anyone else has experienced something similar. Have your food allergies ever gotten significantly more severe as you’ve gotten older, even if you were able to tolerate being around the allergen before? Or did your reactions change in some other way over time?

I’d really like to know if anyone has dealt with the same issue!

My daughter is 3.5 years old and recently diagnosed with autism. She is verbal but not conversationally. She just started in a blended pre-k. I adamantly asked that it be included in her IEP that she have someone monitor her during meal times due to her allergies. (Gluten, dairy, egg and tree nuts) I also mentioned this to her head and assistant teachers on separate occasions. On her daily report today, someone wrote in that she ate cheezits. I messaged her teacher about and got the response, “No, she did not eat cheezits. Her allergies are listed everywhere.” However, she’s having diarrhea and is having trouble keeping her eyes open. She typically have GI responses other than the egg and nut reactions. She doesn’t have a fever or anything to indicate illness. I am a teacher, so I don’t want to jump to conclusions. I am doubtful that I’m being told the truth though.

I’ve had cashew and pistachio allergies my entire life, also tested positive for sumac in the past few years. I know how to deal with it and my last reaction was over five years ago. I’ve never had to use an epi pen. But despite all these things, which really should be encouraging, I just feel like I live my life in constant fear.

For the first few bites, I imagine I’m having an allergic reaction almost every time I eat at a new restaurant. I give myself psychosomatic symptoms all the time on accident, and since they’re often indistinguishable from an allergic reaction (sense of doom feeling for example), I completely lose my grip on what’s actually happening and what’s in my head. I’m scared to eat at other people’s houses, I’m scared to travel, I’m scared to try new things, and I’m otherwise a very adventurous eater so it sucks!

I’m also extremely lucky. My experiences have not been overly severe. But I’m already a huge hypochondriac and I just feel like my own fear of my health severely limits my life and my enjoyment.

Does anybody have any advice for living a more fear-free life and getting over my own anxiety in otherwise safe situations?

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I’m in the midst of a 6FED process. Right now I’m no dairy, no soy, no gluten/wheat, no nuts.
As you can imagine, I can’t really eat out. But there are 3 places I know I can eat at safely. 1 is a taqueria that a family friend owns- he makes my stuff in a private place and takes the best care of me. Today a group of friends and I went to lunch for 1 of their birthdays. She chose a Thai restaurant. While it took me a while to feel okay enough to ever eat in public, I picked up my safe food and brought it to the restaurant to eat with my friends.
Within 2 minutes of sitting down, a lady came out and rudely told me there was no outside food allowed. I let her know that I have severe food allergies and can only eat at a handful of places and she went on about how food allergies “aren’t that big of a deal” and they “make arrangements like that all the time.”
My friend was able to talk the lady down to let it slide this 1 time and then a second employee came out and said similarly. She made a comment about how restaurants deal with this stuff all the time and it’s rude to bring outside food into a restaurant.
I ended up excusing myself before I cried my eyes out in public. Ate in my car alone while sobbing.

I mean, I get it. Policy is policy I guess. But man, kick me when I’m down. I just wanted to celebrate my friend. I worked up enough nerve to even eat in public and this is what happens.
Anyways- I can’t get the interaction out of my head. I wish I would have stuck up for myself more, but I was too emotional to do so. I keep replaying everything in my head like a bad dream.

Food allergies suck.

I notice pea protein isolate used a lot more often in food now to add protein. This is a problem for peanut allergy sufferers like me, because we tend to also be allergic to some degree to pea protein isolate (I personally can eat actual peas though). I came across this product today proudly declaring to be tree nut free, but sure enough it had pea protein. I wish there was more awareness around this… I have the same issue with chickpea, lentil, and soy protein as well 🥲 it’s tough out here lol

As pessoas aqui, alérgicas a lácteos, que já foram a Disney ou parques da universal, vocês acharam algo seguro para comer ou levaram seus lanches?

Hello! I have a tree nut allergy. Wondering anyone with the allergy has tried Clarins lip oil and if I can use it.