Re: May I offer some observations?

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> > Maybe this has been mentioned on the listserve

> before, but I don't ever remember seeing it and I

> thought it might help someone. I have recently

> discovered that there are many SCD legal foods (mostly

> fruits) that because I have a latex sensitivity I

> shouldn't be eating. Again and again I had problems

> with banana and avocado and thought it was just not

> ripe enough or some hybrid problem. Then I checked out

> latex allergy through Google and saw a list of foods

> that have similar proteins to latex. Was I ever

> surprised to see that practically every food on it was

> on my " DON'T EAT " list. You don't even have to have

> a strong latex allergy - my sensitivity to latex is

> very mild, yet my response to these foods is very

> strong. Grape juice is now suspect as well.

> > I hope this will help someone else. I wasted alot

> of time going in circles with this!

I have this allergy too and avoid kiwi, chestnut, apple, carrot, celery, avocado

and banana

It pnly affects a small segment of the general population, I believe it is about

8%.

The foods are cross reactive to latex allergy and I manage well using pears for

apples and

quash for carrots.

Carol F.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

>

> >

> > Maybe this has been mentioned on the listserve

> before, but I don't ever remember seeing it and I

> thought it might help someone. I have recently

> discovered that there are many SCD legal foods (mostly

> fruits) that because I have a latex sensitivity I

> shouldn't be eating. Again and again I had problems

> with banana and avocado and thought it was just not

> ripe enough or some hybrid problem. Then I checked out

> latex allergy through Google and saw a list of foods

> that have similar proteins to latex.

It is interesting that you write this. I do not share the

degree of digestive issues that my son has, but over the last two

years I have had inc symptoms of GERD, espcially after eating

tomatoes, potatoes, peppers (ie the nightshades) and I have

developed a pretty significant allergy to bananas (which makes me

fear guacamole, *sob*). I also have a mild latex allergy! (which

makes nursing school a hoot, lol. I am always carrying around my own

gloves).

I am not 100% SCD/LOD as my son is, but I do note that I feel

better eating as he does. I never had alleriges/food intolerances as

a child; but allergies of all kinds run in my family. I am wary

enough of anaphylaxis to avoid certain foods like the plague,

bananas included. I think sometimes as adults we get so into dealing

with our kids' issues that our own troubles take a backseat unless

we are actually knocked on our rears. Sometimes the tree isn't too

far from the apple, kwim?

-christine

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> OH MY GOSH! Apples are on the latex allergy list? I am continuing to poison

myself with

apples! I did not see carrots on the list, but I already knew to avoid carrots

because I

simply cannot digest them. Apples have been a mainstay of my diet, because I

couldn't

digest pears. Thank you so much for writing! Would you believe I just cut and

cooked 3

bags of organic apples into applesauce yesterday? Can you suggest a replacement

for

apples if I can't handle pears?

I am able to ude pears andd have no suggestions, unfortunately.

Latex-food syndrome

Foods commonly reprted to cross-react with latex include banana, avacado, kiwi,

chestnut, potato, and papaya. In a study of 136 patients with latex allergy

evaluated by

means of RAST to 12 foods reported to be involved in latex-food reactions, 69%

of

responses were positive to at least 1 food, and 49% were positive to more than 1

food. In

one study of 47 patients with latex allergy, 100 of 376 food skin test responses

were

positive, but only 27 (7.2%) were associated with clinical reactions. In

patients with

isolated latex allergy, reactions are more likely to banana, avacado and kiwi,

whereas

those with latex allergy & pollinosis are more likely to react to ceae foods

and celery.

Carol F.

[Guest guest]

>

> OH MY GOSH! Apples are on the latex allergy list? I am continuing to poison

myself with

apples! I did not see carrots on the list, but I already knew to avoid carrots

because I

simply cannot digest them. Apples have been a mainstay of my diet, because I

couldn't

digest pears. Thank you so much for writing! Would you believe I just cut and

cooked 3

bags of organic apples into applesauce yesterday? Can you suggest a replacement

for

apples if I can't handle pears?

I am able to ude pears andd have no suggestions, unfortunately.

Latex-food syndrome

Foods commonly reprted to cross-react with latex include banana, avacado, kiwi,

chestnut, potato, and papaya. In a study of 136 patients with latex allergy

evaluated by

means of RAST to 12 foods reported to be involved in latex-food reactions, 69%

of

responses were positive to at least 1 food, and 49% were positive to more than 1

food. In

one study of 47 patients with latex allergy, 100 of 376 food skin test responses

were

positive, but only 27 (7.2%) were associated with clinical reactions. In

patients with

isolated latex allergy, reactions are more likely to banana, avacado and kiwi,

whereas

those with latex allergy & pollinosis are more likely to react to ceae foods

and celery.

Carol F.