Do you have any allergies?

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You poor thing all that potassium you re missing out on

I have Coeliac disease, which is technically an autoimmune disease but it manifests itself as an allergy to gluten.

I get dreadful hayfever and spend most of the summer doped up to the eyeballs on antihistamines, although I'm lucky that I never had it as a child or a teenager. I also have a bad reaction to aubergine - my mouth gets super sore and itchy after eating it - although it's not that much of a hassle because I don't particularly like it anyway. Can be a bit tricky to avoid as a vegetarian though.

It must be quite the lifestyle adjustment to go without gluten, you must be a pretty good cook to get round that. my partner has an autoimmune condition, which does flare up with certain foods but fortunately he's able to avoid most things after some trial and error and by being quite careful.

Oh i ve never come across someone who got hayfever as an adult, it seems to be something my family all gets in their early teens. Yeah, i took antihistamines every day as a teenager to the point that a couple of antihistamines seem to barely work anymore so there's only two OTC ones that work for me (the more expensive ones too).Having an allergy to a vegetable as a vegetarian seems like a cruel joke really.

It's a lot easier now than it used to. When I was younger, shops didn't sell any gluten free products at all, so it all had to be obtained on prescription. And that meant that it all had to be vacuum packed and long life, because of the long timescales involved. So the range was limited, and the stuff was awful.
Now, though, all supermarkets sell gluten free products. It's still expensive - bread is £2+ for a small loaf, and a packet of biscuits is about the same
I can still remember getting my first frozen ready made pizza. It was in 2005 I had to buy it from a specialist website, which sent stuff out by courier in cool boxes packed with ice. And that was the only way of getting such things. Now I can go to the supermarket, and whilst there isn't an amazing choice I can pick up (usually) cheese or pepperoni. Some places do others too, although there isn't as much choice as there is in the normal stuff.

Restaurants are also better at doing GF stuff now. It used to be pretty much limited to salads, because places had no idea what was in things like sauces. It also used to be really common for places to buy in already grated cheese which had been coated in wheat flour to stop it sticking together. But now you can get whole menus of stuff, and places are aware of cross contamination.

I'm not particularly sensitive. Some people can't even use the same toaster as someone with normal bread, because the small amount of crumbs will cause a reaction. I'm also OK with oats, and again they can cause reactions in some people with coeliac disease.

I probably had summertime sniffles etc. as a kid but I don't remember ever going full-blown puffy face, streaming nose etc. until just before exams in my first year of undergrad. One theory is that bonus atmospheric pollution brings it on later in life, but it's hard to believe that Cambridge is more polluted than Leeds Oh man, I feel your pain - loratadine and cetirizine are basically useless to me at this point. I do find that supplementing pills with local honey helps a little but that might just be placebo.
Yeah, the irony isn't lost on me but it could be worse - it's not like I can't eat tomatoes or onions or anything else that's super common.

I have hayfever, I am also allergic to paracetamol, penicillin and plum tomatoes.

Youngest is allergic to nuts, shellfish and I kid you not, rhubarb (very very allergic, almost lost him on the way to the hospital after a reaction). He is also intolerant to dairy products and soya and although not coeliac, is sensitive to gluten and wheat.

Eldest used to be allergic to strawberries but is ok now and middle son has similar problems to youngest son except he doesn't have the allergies and has milder forms of the intolerances.

There is scientific merit to honey helping but it doesnt have to be local that i ve heard. Yeah loratadine and cetirizine are the ones that dont work for me either. Yeah, i moved from wales to a city and my hayfever's been slightly better so it doesnt seem to always be a pollution thing:P

Do you get antihistamines prescribed now? I came very close to going to the GP about it this summer but I didn't think it was serious enough and given how hard it can be to get an appointment I didn't want to waste their time.