Sesame Reaction

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Macabre:
I had an anaphylactic reaction last night.

DH and I went to a celebratory dinner at a restaurant with a group of school parents. I'd had a good experience a few years ago at the same restaurant in another city here.

I ordered meat loaf and mashed potatoes. It is typically served on top of a slice of Italian bread (then the meat loaf and then the mash potatoes stacked on top. Topped with friend something or other strings on top.

I ordered it without the bread and strings. But they had a Jalapeno waffle made from their own batter, so I had that on the bottom.

I had a very large beer.

Meatloaf seemed like a safe option. Because of how it's cooked. In one baked dish for meatloaf, not grilled or fried.

I felt my throat swelling a bit before we left and took DH to a quieter room to hear my voice. It got better, but after we left, I felt itchy on my neck,

After we got to the car, my tongue started swelling. We were on our way to another restaurant where DS was and decided to drive toward the hospital in case it got worse.

We switched places and he drove. I got my Epi out. My tongue was clearly swelling more and DH chaos he could hear it getting worse. My lips felt bigger. I felt a sinking feeling in my core.

So I epis while he drove. We were a half mile from the hospital. I called 911 and told them. They did not call the hospital in advance. I walked into the ER, bypasses the first station where I would have needed to wait, and I walked to the next station holding my Epi. Someone joined me and we walked to the back to a room.

At one point about ten mins later I felt nauseated and really like I was going to throw up. I felt weak. I think it was about to go biphasic but my vitals were good.

I had an IV with two vials of benedryl and salmeterol. (sp)

We left after two hours. I was fine. I left with a script for pred and Auvis. And told to take Zantac and take Benadryl as needed.

Around noon I started to have stomach cramps. I boigt liquid Allegra, which did not help and then had liquid Benadryl which did.

It's 10:30 and my stomach started cramping again and I took benedryl. I'll have a Zantac before going to bed shortly.

Macabre:
A friend from here suggested what I think caused the reaction. Breadcrumbs or crackers are typically used in meatloaf. Ugh. It's been so long since I have made it that I forgot. I have had it out before. But maybe I'm more sensitive, or maybe it was safe.

But I bet that's what it was.

I will call the restaurant tomorrow.

GoingNuts:
As I was reading, I thought - breadcrumbs in the meatloaf. :tongue:

Glad you're feeling better. But egads, FA's stink. :disappointed: :console: :grouphug:

Macabre:
Posting the symptoms from an anaphylactic reaction last September that self-resolved. I don't want to discuss that reaction here really except to note the symptoms and the factors causing it--eating something that had touched a cross contaminated surface (surface had not had sesame on it but may contains) and the consumption of alcohol.

I will call the restaurant today to find out about the bread--whether it was a contain or may contain. My assumption is that all bread without sesame as a listed ingredient (or visible one) may contain/is XC. Had I thought about breadcrums or crackers being in meatloaf, I never would have ordered it, as I do not eat those things in restaurants.

But I wanted to keep track of my symptoms. I may go back to my 2012 anaphylactic reaction to paste those in here. That was while eating sesame seeds though.

--- Quote from: Macabre on September 03, 2016, 09:12:15 AM ---Dang it.

The beer was not wonderful.

Ten to twenty minutes after eating my brat (with sauerkraut--no sesame), I started coughing. And coughing. I told DH I thought it was probably a reaction, but that I bet it would be limited to coughing. I kept coughing. After ten minutes or so, I realized I needed to get out of there NOW. It felt worrying, concerning and bad--like something bad was going to happen.

I handed DH my key as we walked to the car, and as we were walking to the car, my neck felt itchy. He said I had a rash on it.

As we started to drive, my nose got stuffy. I still wasn't horribly worried, because sesame has only progressed when I actually ingested sesame seeds. But as we were driving home, my lips started getting puffy, and it was hard to talk without slurring. I told DH to head to the hospital that I was going to epi. It would have been faster to do this than wait for an ambulance because of where we were.

Then before using the epi, it cleared up. I felt a switch happen. My lips went down. My voice sounded better (I had not noticed that it had sounded strange a moment before--and DH had). My nose became unstuffy and I wasn't itchy and my cough stopped.

It was so weird.

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