Posted by: lakeswimr
« on: July 09, 2013, 08:44:51 PM »Welcome! It would be very, very unusual to have such a severe reaction to smelling apples. Protein has to get into your body somehow to cause a reaction. An apple at room temperature is not giving off protein so none should have been able to get into you. I'm wondering if perhaps you actually have some other allergy such as a latex allergy or some other food. Had you eaten anything in the 2 hour window before your reactions? If so, what? Are you sure you are not allergic to latex?
Testing has a very high false positive rate so if you have not seen 100% for sure reactions to all the things on your list then you may have a bunch of false positives.
Oh, I see you do have latex listed. I would be thinking latex due to the airborne nature of your reaction.
People can develop a food allergy at any age but it would be super unusual to the point of being about zero chance to suddenly develop a long list of allergens. Do you have a good allergist working with you?
Testing has a very high false positive rate so if you have not seen 100% for sure reactions to all the things on your list then you may have a bunch of false positives.
Oh, I see you do have latex listed. I would be thinking latex due to the airborne nature of your reaction.
People can develop a food allergy at any age but it would be super unusual to the point of being about zero chance to suddenly develop a long list of allergens. Do you have a good allergist working with you?