Food allergy

[Petrolsmasher]

Out of nowhere i started reacting to something in food and having crazy itchy spells and eczema flared up on my elbow and backs of knees.

This literally seemed to happen overnight, anyway i also noticed my bowel movements were different so i tried to eliminate milk from my diet.

This seemed to mostly help but i cant comprehend it still as i dont know the cause.

Ive tried drinking a2 milk which removes the a1 protein which is usually the problem - no change i still reacted. Ive tried lactofree milk - no change again so it cant be lactose. And sometimes i can drink a pint of milk and have zero effects afterwards im baffled!

Whey protein seems to have set me off last night also but then i was fine with it the other day.

The main thing im baffled about is apparently developing a milk allergy later in life is very unusual.

[Allanv]

For me it was sugar, I had atopic eczema for a few years until I gave up sugar (well eating sweets like a 10 year old) after giving up smoking.

Now I limit my sugar intake and watch the content in soups and the likes and my eczema is gone.

Hope you get it sorted.

[Petrolsmasher]

Allanv said:

For me it was sugar, I had atopic eczema for a few years until I gave up sugar (well eating sweets like a 10 year old) after giving up smoking.

Now I limit my sugar intake and watch the content in soups and the likes and my eczema is gone.

Hope you get it sorted.

Hmm mine did reduce when i cut milk out but it is weird the way it affects me i dont get it tbh.

[Allanv]

Petrolsmasher said:

Allanv said:

For me it was sugar, I had atopic eczema for a few years until I gave up sugar (well eating sweets like a 10 year old) after giving up smoking.

Now I limit my sugar intake and watch the content in soups and the likes and my eczema is gone.

Hope you get it sorted.

Hmm mine did reduce when i cut milk out but it is weird the way it affects me i dont get it tbh.

Forgot to mention the extreme itching like you had, I would make my legs bleed every night. The bed would need changing each morning I certainly do not miss that side of it.

Good luck.

[TwistingMyMelon]

You can develop food allergies all of a sudden even if you have been eating the food all your life

Alcohol flairs up grim ezema on the back of my legs , when I stop drinking it goes . Just started out of nowhere even though I'd been drinking all my adult life

[seb345]

Yeah I did have the same thing where I was eating foods all my life (for example cheese) and for the past couple of months I have been experiencing this crazy bloating and just general discomfort, after ingesting it. It's very annoying and low key scary. I mean for example recently I started experiencing these weird symptoms where I would have bloating and like sever cases of diarrhea. It was not pretty. I went to my GP and he sent me off to a gastroenterologist who then sent me to a private lab do some tests as he suspected that I might have a food intolerance. (I used these guys over here: intolerancelab.co.uk). Turns out I was cheese intolerant as well as allergic to gluten. Changes in my diet helped so you should get tested.

Edited by seb345 on Tuesday 3rd March 15:57

[PH5121]

Out of the blue my wife has developed an allergy to potatos. This has come as a blow to her as she enjoyed them.

She initially thought it may have been a gluten intolerance, then through a process of elimination excluded peppers, onions and finally narrowed it down to spuds. Cutting out potato in the form of mash, chips, roasties, crisps etc was easy enough but the use of potato starch in other products has caught her out.

It's in some unexpected (well she was surprised) foods, she has been caught out by apple strudel, pesto, hot cross buns and instant gravy. Also by sweet potato fries which must have either had a potato starch coating or were perhaps contaminated due to being processed alongside spuds or fried in oil used for normal fries. She also can't peel and chop them without wearing gloves or she feels the effects.

The effects of actually ingesting potato are fairly swift and not nice, if she's lucky and it's mild exposure she gets bloating and cramps, at worst it's sickness.

Looking on the bright side she's lost weight due to the lack of crisps and chips, but it's effected how we eat as a family as we no longer have roast dinners, cottage pie, bangers and mash etc.

Edited by PH5121 on Friday 21st February 11:35

[LordGrover]

I've recently had issues with milk. Cheese, yoghurt and cream are fine, but if I consume milk I get upset tummy, bloating and quite windy. Even a splash of milk in tea sets me off.

[Derek Smith]

PH5121 said:

Out of the blue my wife has developed an allergy to potatos. This has come as a blow to her as she enjoyed them.

I'm getting on a bit. From my teens I had problems with intolerance to certain foods including alcohol. No allergies though.

Over the last ten year my menu has shrunk year on year. It's a bit of a pain. I once had my lips then mouth go numb and it gradually worked its way along my tongue. I was considering calling an ambulance but then it slowly subsided.

These allergies can develop at any age I'm informed. The numbness was down to a type of bean and avoiding it was easy enough but recently a goulash, which I love, gave the same problem, although less intense.

I'm told it can spontaneously go into remission, but how are you supposed to find out?

[Saleen836]

I have developed an allergy to something, started around 6/7 years ago and I thought I had figured it out to being cat dander, when the 2 cats that lived here went approx 5 years ago the problem stopped and i thought my self diagnosis was correct, that was until just over a week ago when it happened again!
Starts off with an itchy eyelid then within 24hrs I look like this......


I have now booked myself in to a private clinic for allergy tests, costs £75 but hopefully it will yield a result.

[Tango13]

Saleen836 said:

I have developed an allergy to something, started around 6/7 years ago and I thought I had figured it out to being cat dander, when the 2 cats that lived here went approx 5 years ago the problem stopped and i thought my self diagnosis was correct, that was until just over a week ago when it happened again!
Starts off with an itchy eyelid then within 24hrs I look like this......


I have now booked myself in to a private clinic for allergy tests, costs £75 but hopefully it will yield a result.

I had a similar reaction from shaving gel of all things, I'm pretty certain Gillette changed something in their aerosol tinned stuff so I swapped to Body Shop squeezy tube stuff and I've been fine ever since.

[Saleen836]

Tango13 said:

I had a similar reaction from shaving gel of all things, I'm pretty certain Gillette changed something in their aerosol tinned stuff so I swapped to Body Shop squeezy tube stuff and I've been fine ever since.

I have been racking my brain trying to think if/what I have changed or eaten recently but am at a loss, I don't wet shave so no gel/cream to worry about

[Fastpedeller]

Petrolsmasher said:

The main thing im baffled about is apparently developing a milk allergy later in life is very unusual.

I've been told it's not unusual. At about 50 I started falling apart . I had terrible vertigo (at first I thought it was a stroke or other serious event). GP wasn't interested/didn't believe? Every time I said to them 'I get a pain below my left ribs' Their answer "it's inner ear, take some anti-dizzy pills" But I wanted to find the cause. Ended up in hospital one night (paramedics suggested I had symptom of a heart attack!) Hospital did ECG, blood tests, said I was as 'fit as a fiddle''. after about a year of these (apparently mystery attacks), I went to a nutritionist who said "I bet a pound to a penny you're lactose intolerant - come off milk" She was right - and it doesn't show up in the allergy (blood sample) test (I've had 2 tests at different venues). Very odd these allergies/intollerances.
Good luck.

[Tango13]

Saleen836 said:

Tango13 said:

I had a similar reaction from shaving gel of all things, I'm pretty certain Gillette changed something in their aerosol tinned stuff so I swapped to Body Shop squeezy tube stuff and I've been fine ever since.

I have been racking my brain trying to think if/what I have changed or eaten recently but am at a loss, I don't wet shave so no gel/cream to worry about

I worked nights years ago and during winter I would eat my lunch in the office instead of the canteen as it was much warmer, after a few weeks the foreman asked if I could stop leaving my banana peel in the office bins as one of the office workers was allergic to bananas and it was causing her problems during the day.

It might be something someone else has changed in their routine causing your problem

[Saleen836]

Tango13 said:

I worked nights years ago and during winter I would eat my lunch in the office instead of the canteen as it was much warmer, after a few weeks the foreman asked if I could stop leaving my banana peel in the office bins as one of the office workers was allergic to bananas and it was causing her problems during the day.

It might be something someone else has changed in their routine causing your problem

Along with my private allergy test I have booked I have an appointment with my doctor to be referred for a RAST test, hopefully after all that I should have an idea

[Saleen836]

Had chat with my doctor and he said no point in a RAST test as all it will tell is that I am allergic to something (which I all ready know), the allergy test I had yesterday was IMO a waste of time and money (£75), I was given a Vega Test and according to that I have an intolerance to....Cows Milk, Oranges. Oats, Gluton, Coffee, Cheese, Lactose, Soya, Chocolate,Wheat, Rye, Barley and Dog Hair!
I then explained I drink 10-12 pints of cows milk every week, I have always been around dogs and had my own for 10 years and I regularly eat everything else listed, I asked if any of those caused the reaction why did it not cause it to happen on a regular basis instead of recently and 4/5 years previous to that?
Her opinion is that I should leave out dairy and gluton from my diet for 16 weeks and then go back for another test, my take on it is...I will carry on as normal and foeget about it, it might not hppen again for another 4/5 years so at present I still am none the wiser as to what could have caused the reaction.