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Have you ever had a weird reactions to fresh fruits and didn't know why? It could be oral allergy syndrome where your body thinks that the proteins in that fruit are the proteins of things you are allergic to.
Last year I discovered that I had oral allergy syndrome and it surprised me because it seemed to have come out of nowhere even though I have a lot of allergies. This isn't a "true" allergy, it mimics that allergy from what I understand. My worse fruits were watermelon and cantaloupe. I found that Zyrtec helped but made me sleepy.
So I stopped eating fresh fruits and tried baking them to see if it made a difference and at first I couldn't even eat them that way. Then I made some mini blueberry muffins and I could have one or two.
This year I found I could have a banana once a week.
Well, yesterday I decided to buy an entire watermelon that was on sale and when I cut it and ate pieces out of it, I was fine. But later I went back for more and my throat swelled up. I had a hard time sleeping, even after taking some generic flonase (I am out of Zyrtec because the one I need is hard to find). My husband won't eat watermelon, so now I need to ask my neighbors if they want containers of cut up watermelon.
Last year I discovered that I had oral allergy syndrome and it surprised me because it seemed to have come out of nowhere even though I have a lot of allergies. This isn't a "true" allergy, it mimics that allergy from what I understand. My worse fruits were watermelon and cantaloupe. I found that Zyrtec helped but made me sleepy.
So I stopped eating fresh fruits and tried baking them to see if it made a difference and at first I couldn't even eat them that way. Then I made some mini blueberry muffins and I could have one or two.
This year I found I could have a banana once a week.
Well, yesterday I decided to buy an entire watermelon that was on sale and when I cut it and ate pieces out of it, I was fine. But later I went back for more and my throat swelled up. I had a hard time sleeping, even after taking some generic flonase (I am out of Zyrtec because the one I need is hard to find). My husband won't eat watermelon, so now I need to ask my neighbors if they want containers of cut up watermelon.