Allergic reaction to eating fruits?
I am 37 years old and about 4 months ago I ate strawberries. The next morning my legs; below the knees and mostly on my calves; had these red dots on them. It's not bumpy and it's not itchy or anything it just appeared. Now it seems if I eat any kind of fruit, tomatoes, or any sort of melons I see this problem. I can eat pineapples and bananas but that's it. Does anyone know what causes the red dots?
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It sounds to me that you have a problem with salicilates which is found mainly in ripe fruits. The highest amounts of salicilates are found in strawberries, tomatoes, watermelon etc. Bananas do not contain salicilates, they contain amines which is proboably why you can have them. If you see an allergist, they can put you on a salicilate free diet and then you can be trialled with different fruits to see what you react to.
I have a son with major food allergies.
Not even your doctor could tell you offhand. You can be tested for a multitude of allergies, but you must got to a doctor for the tests.
Sometimes the pesticides used can cause people to have breakouts, so wash your fruits well- if you think about it, you don't eat the outside of pineapples or bananas, do ya!
You can try organic but still wash them thoroughly.
too much vitamin c. I used to have the same problem. cut back on the fruit or cut back on the vitamin c tablets.
Strawberries do the exact same thing to me, and apparently it is quite a common allergic reaction.
Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a protein thought to be responsible for strawberry allergies which is associated with the fruit's red hue.
Vulnerable individuals can suffer itching and swelling in the mouth and throat when exposed to normal strawberries, but don't react in the same way with the rarer white varieties.
Writing in the magazine Chemistry World, Rikard Alm, one of the researchers from Lund University in Sweden, said it was not clear how the allergen was related to the strawberry's colour. "We need to investigate more proteins," he said. "We are now investigating the biological variation of the strawberry allergen, between different strawberry varieties and within one and the same variety depending on cultivation conditions."
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