When I was younger I could bananas all the time, now if I eat one I feel like dying. Does anyone know why this is? I know it's not a potassium thing. Is there anything else it could be?
2007-10-07 12:49:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Allergies
You could have developed an allergy to bananas.
See an allergist - there are simple food allergy tests that they can run. A blood test, called a RAST, and a skin test called an SPT.
In the meantime, stay away from bananas. If it is a food allergy avoidance is the only known cure.
2007-10-07 15:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by claimjmpr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tino: Allergy is a chronic condition. It is a defect in the immune system. Your body is mis-identifying a protein in the banana as an evil enemy germ invader. Over the years, a person's sensitivity to a given substance can decrease, and with each exposure they become more sensitive. That is why you could eat bananas as a kid but now they cause a problem. If it is a true allergy, your body is producing an immunoglobulin called IgE. Your blood can be tested for its presence. People that are allergic to bananas are frequently also allergic to birch tree pollen and latex, as the structure of those proteins are similar. I would try to avoid all three for now.
2007-10-07 20:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by Queen of the Dust Mites 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's quite likely you are allergic to bananas. I don't really know what's in them to react to, but I've known several people who suffer the same thing. Usually begins with a tingling in the throat and gets worse. Also, suddenly becoming allergic to something is normal. Allergies develop and then go away all the time. You can't become allergic to something until you've had exposure to it.
2007-10-07 20:01:11 · answer #3 · answered by Derail 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That happens to people all the time, I am allergic to bananas and always have been. People can acquire allergies, and they can gain resistance(proper word?) to things. So I don't think that it cud be much else besides an allergy, unless you have some psychological disease that makes you think that bananas are going to eat you from the inside out. Hope this helps :D
2007-10-07 19:59:16 · answer #4 · answered by Brian M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people are simply allergic to bananas. If you check, you might find you have a sensitivity to latex too: Latex comes from a plant in the same family as the banana.
I hope this helps!
2007-10-07 22:36:11 · answer #5 · answered by Tigger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people are allergic to bananas, or intollerant to them. Actually bananas are hard for the body to digest.
The best thing to do is to stop eating banana's altogther if your body has shown an intollerance because if you continue eating them this intollerance will become stronger.
As we age we do develope more intollerances to foods but you can help this by taking digestive enzymes to ensuring that your digestive system is working efficiently.
2007-10-08 01:07:39 · answer #6 · answered by susandorey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you allergic to latex? If you are that could be the cause. Other then that just over exposure will do it.
2007-10-07 21:08:14 · answer #7 · answered by S P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋