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For a while now I had been having problems. Asthma was getting bad, digestion issues, frequent rash, and just didn't feel good. I've never really had many health problems, so this was freaking me out. I had a bad "spell" a few months ago including an asthma attack, and it happened again a couple of weeks ago. My wife has said all along she thought it was the peanut butter, I ate reeses cups and nutter butter cookies everyday. Since that last "spell" she gace me a combo of medicines her dr had given her for a reaction, and I've not ate anything with peanuts/nuts at all. Asthma better, allergies, digestive issues, rash. So I guess she was right. Its just odd to me that something you've ate your whole life can suddenly hurt you. Just wondering if anyone else ever had an experience like that.
 
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Kiwi. Strange, I know. I have to check all ingredients too ensure their is no Kiwi. This allergy hit me around 38 years of age.

Fried eggs cause the same outcome.
I can eat eggs any other way, just not fried, and it doesn't matter how they are prepared.
 
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It's not unusual for adults to develop allergies but I don't think anyone really knows what's behind it. You probably should visit an allergist though, just to be prepared if it ever gets worse.

My daughter has a severe peanut allergy and her allergist said that each successive reaction can be worse than the previous one (I guess the immune system learns to freak out more efficiently over time), so it may be worth finding out what's triggering yours.

Of course, I'm not a doctor, haven't been anywhere near a Holiday Inn Express, AND I'm generally unreliable in most things I say and do (wife can attest), so there you go.
 
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pismonque said:
It's not unusual for adults to develop allergies but I don't think anyone really knows what's behind it. You probably should visit an allergist though, just to be prepared if it ever gets worse.

My daughter has a severe peanut allergy and her allergist said that each successive reaction can be worse than the previous one (I guess the immune system learns to freak out more efficiently over time), so it may be worth finding out what's triggering yours.

Of course, I'm not a doctor, haven't been anywhere near a Holiday Inn Express, AND I'm generally unreliable in most things I say and do (wife can attest), so there you go.
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That's kind of how mine went. Its gotten worse, but been good since I quit peanut stuff.
 
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malinoisvol said:
Kiwi. Strange, I know. I have to check all ingredients too ensure their is no Kiwi. This allergy hit me around 38 years of age.

Fried eggs cause the same outcome.
I can eat eggs any other way, just not fried, and it doesn't matter how they are prepared.
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Kiwi is strange!
 
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I've never heard of an adult developing a peanut allergy but I suppose it can happen. Maybe what you need to do is get an allergy test done Joe. This can rule quite a few things out or in even. When you start having breathing difficulties for whatever reason it's past time to see your doctor.
 
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I'm allergic to milk. Started about 17 years ago. Was very mild. Took me 14 years to discover what it was.
 
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You should go to an allergist and get tested for all the allergies. It's a stinky appointment because it consists of getting like 200 needles poked in you but it's definitely worth it. Most of the time when an allergy comes out when your adult, you have been allergic to it your whole life but it has stayed dormant in the immune system.
 
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gobraves101035 said:
You should go to an allergist and get tested for all the allergies. It's a stinky appointment because it consists of getting like 200 needles poked in you but it's definitely worth it. Most of the time when an allergy comes out when your adult, you have been allergic to it your whole life but it has stayed dormant in the immune system.
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They don't even use needles anymore, at least most places don't. It looks something like this..

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Yea, my wife said I need to go to the dr. I wouldn't have thought being 40 I could just start having an allergy, but everything has got better since I quit it. On the flip side, penicillin used to break me out, but I can take it now. Dr gace it to me several years ago abd I didn't realize it, but it never bothered me.
 
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I guess it's possible that the allergy has been there all along but with reactions so mild that they were easily written off as something else and not notable enough that you put two and two together. Then at some point recently you hit some threshold or some additional trigger that kicked your reaction into high gear.

Or maybe it's just being middle-aged. : )
 
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pismonque said:
I guess it's possible that the allergy has been there all along but with reactions so mild that they were easily written off as something else and not notable enough that you put two and two together. Then at some point recently you hit some threshold or some additional trigger that kicked your reaction into high gear.

Or maybe it's just being middle-aged. : )
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There's a lot of change that comes with being middle aged!
 
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My dad had something similar happen except his was to dark colored Coke/Pepsi products. Anytime he drinks one he has a pretty bad allergic reaction to them.
 
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I occasionally ate cinnamon gums growing up. When I was 30-or-so, I had a piece of Cinnaburst gum and my tongue swelled up and developed sores. It was painful - hard to eat or talk for weeks, but it healed itself.

I thought that was an isolated event, so a year or so later I had a stick of Big Red with the same reaction, but this time it was worse. I had to chug Chloraseptic just to be able to say the shortest sentences. This time I went to the family doctor. She said I had probably developed an allergy to a cinnamon oil in the gum. She gave me a shot in the butt and said to take multi Vitamins, so I did, and it eventually went away. I can live without cinnamon gum, so I just stay away now.

It's weird. I can eat cinnamon - no problem. I have a cinnamon roll once in a blue moon. I just can't have cinnamon gum. Crazy.

Also, my oldest has an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts and tree nuts. Found out the hard way. He carries an epi pen and does a great job staying away. We haven't had another incident since the first one (he was 3, he's now 12 - routinely sees the allergist).

My wife has a gluten sensitivity. She's been eating gluten free for 10 years. She's been to a couple of gastroenterologists - one said she has Celiac disease, the other said she does not have Celiac disease, but she does have a gluten sensitivity. I don't care - she eats well, is healthy and hot. She lived her entire young life with IBS symptoms, was on meds for colitis the first 20 years of her life. She went gluten free - all of that gone.
 
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My wife was diagnosed with that celiac disease a couple years ago. Her Dr said she thought her lupus brought it on. Gluten free food is expensive!
 
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joevol33 said:
Oh wow.
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Dr. Pepper is the only one he really misses. Doesn't matter if it's diet or regular, same effect. He still gets tempted every once in a while. I try to drink one or two every time I'm around just to give him grief :)
 
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volfan_89 said:
Dr. Pepper is the only one he really misses. Doesn't matter if it's diet or regular, same effect. He still gets tempted every once in a while. I try to drink one or two every time I'm around just to give him grief :)
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It'd be hard for me if it was mt dew!
 
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