Is it possible to be allergic to all raw fruits and vegetables?
Last year i started noticing my tong and throat and eyes would itch after eating some raw fruits and vegetables, my throat would also swell up. Now it is any thing raw if it grows on a tree, on OR in the ground it doesn’t matter the symptoms happen. Nothing happens if they are cooked like in a pie or cooked vegetables. I’m just really confused so if any one can explain this or give any advice i would really appreciate it thanks. 
wintersoul1
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:59 am
yes gypsy.
June 3rd, 2010 at 11:54 am
Hi. This is known as Oral Allergy Syndrome, and is not uncommon. I have it, and know what you’re talking about! You can read more about it here: http://www.allergyuk.org/fs_oralallergy.aspx
Basically, you can start being allergic to things at any stage in your life. With this type of allergy often you can eat the food when it is cooked, as heating denatures the protein in the food and the body doesn’t react to it as a ‘harmful’ substance any more, as it doesn’t recognise it as the same thing as the uncooked food.
The best thing would be to see your doctor and get a referral to an allergy clinic. They’ll be able to do skin prick tests on the foods (you may have to bring some of the fruits/vegetables in with you – I had to for some of the ones they didn’t have as extracts in their little bottles). They’ll probably advise you to carry a fast-acting anti-histamine to take if you have a reaction, and they may also advise you to carry an epi-pen (adrenaline) in case of a major reaction. I carry one and have had to use it. Believe me, if you have a big reaction, you want to have one to hand!
Good luck with it all.
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
If you are interested – pesticides in produce is reduced 85% to 95%+ when they are cooked out in the boiling process. I would surmise this would also occur in the baking process.
See a ‘good’ doctor about it and become a ‘good’ doctor yourself is the best advice anyone can give you.
Itch and rash problems can either be all nutritional and ‘dryness’ related or partly nutritional plus viral or bacterial or fungal or parasitical lice etc or an allergic reaction to some things that are toxic in one’s food or air or skin applications or meds. If meds are needed Monostat 7 for yeast infections has worked for me for moist jock itch regions also.
So some react allergically to the chlorine or fluoride that is being re-absorbed through the skin after the hot water washes out all the skin oils or to a skin lotion or meds or toxins in one’s foods. In addition to toxins in these things I have also become allergic to the Vitamin Palmitate enrichment within milk products. I suggest organic cow’s milk or organic goat’s milk for babies until they can be weaned to solid food like green beans, lentils, or boiled/de-acidified spinach.
When my liver started to become severely weakened from bad nutrition and too many mineral supplements that were toxic and I never knew it, the first sign was rashes and itchings when I became a little warm under the covers at night, in the backs of my knees and inside the arms that eventually spread to other places.
My own problems with my fragile liver began to become ‘very’ severe after several months of eating considerable nutritional yeast that had much too high of copper %DV’s. After having a severe copper taste for several weeks I eventually recognized that the base grains %DV’s did not have near as much copper. So I concluded that the super high copper %DV’s was not a non-toxic plant source of copper within the grain, but was a toxic metallic copper from the pots the yeast was brewed inside.
IF I may let me explain further why if I were you I would make the choice to look for “toxic-triggers” and to reduce them in order to allow the skin/organs to become stronger.
In the past I also have had many problems with asthma and with skin rashes and itchings. I have learned that all the things that trigger these problems are very very toxic to everyone’s health and I have learned to ‘run’ from them.
I also ‘eventually’ learned that my nutrition was below what it needed to be, so that I could easily have an allergic reaction to something that was toxic, AND my skin and/or lymph and/or kidney and/or liver organs were not strong enough to deal with it quickly, so the rash/itchings were a continual ‘warning.’
I have since learned that better nutrition will make the skin and ‘purifying’ organs stronger in order that they can more easily deal with toxins that we all might have a hard time identifying and running from. (Google browse: “Pellagra-Wikipedia”)
I know this from my own experiences with myself and others since these were also my triggers and when we are all under stress we usually consume-apply things that are more toxic to us, whether alcohol, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, or eating too many calories or high- glycemic calories from carb-sugar-starches.
Toxins include chlorine and fluoride in the drinking and shower water, or pesticides preservatives nitrates chemicals synthetics or enrichments in foods, or pharmaceuticals you have consumed or applied on your skin, or molds or smoke or aerosols.
It took much research and money and sufferings to learn that all of my triggers were due to poor nutritional choices. My hope is that you will learn from my past experiences for the sake of your future health and longevity and would methodically look for your own triggers and would thoughtfully consider the nutritional component and then make the choices to become stronger.
My best to you,
A1 – nutritionist
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IF you are interested, I feel I have become a quasi-expert on rashes and pruritus itchings after many years of off and on flare ups. So to do my part to make a difference in the world I now take a little time each week to help others understand why better nutrition is so important, and I have posted much of my own story via the link at: <> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091016160457AAkysKW
<>. I hope you will have learned something today from my own mistakes and would not duplicate them. My best to you and yours. A1- nutritionist
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
You probably have oral allergy syndrome, like another person suggested. I have it too and the reason that you can eat things that are cooked (for example I can drink apple juice and eat apple pie just fine, just not the raw fruit) is because heat kind of destroys the proteins that your body attacks as foreign. It is normal to have it for a lot of different fruits and vegetables from the ground or especially from trees, but I think it is a little rare to be allergic to anything raw.
June 3rd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I use to have this problem also. Even getting the juice of raw fruits or vegetables on my hands made them break out in a rash. It is related to pollen allergies. I went to an allergist and had desensitization shots for my pollen allergies. After being on the shots for five years, my allergy to raw fruits and vegetables went away! Now I can actually eat salad.