azziria: (thinking)
azziria ([personal profile] azziria) wrote2011-10-28 01:24 pm

Because I need to know if I'm strange...

[Poll #1790425]

Personally, I'm fussy about my bananas. And my monkeys.

[identity profile] eremite.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't know about chestnuts as I hated them when I last ate them a few years ago. I'm not aware of any problems with latex itself, though, and I'm fine with other foods on the linked list, though, and don't have any of the irritation symptoms. It's just a (literal) pain!

[identity profile] linaelyn.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good! (if one can say "good" about a health issue that causes pain!?!?) It sounds as if you the "other kind" of allergy, the one that generally doesn't result in anaphylaxis response. Skin rashes and breathing difficulties after eating a substance are big warning signs of the scary-danger sort of allergy. Of course, it's no fun to have reasonable foods cause bellyaches! But at least a banana won't kill you unexpectedly, unless lodged in your windpipe! (But how do you defend yourself from an assailant with a raspberry? Or a pointéd stick?)