Comment by rewgs
4 years ago
> But there are also those of us whose issues aren't life threatening.
...yet.
My allergy to mustard used to barely register. It still scores near the bottom on my skin prick and IgE blood tests. And yet, over the past few months, it's evolved where if I'm even in the same room as someone eating mustard, I begin to go into anaphylaxis. Food allergies are absolutely absurd and you can't trust them to stay the same.
My reaction doesn't class as an allergy. There's no danger of anaphylaxis, the only way it could be life-threatening is if I had no choice of food (and that would be because of malabsorption, not the reaction itself.)
I see. From the sounds of one of your prior comments, I assume you have an intolerance to something such as food dyes?
Regardless, most of my allergies aren't life-threatening. I still don't eat them, because the reaction can ruin a day or more of my life at a time. It's tremendously disruptive.