Avocados : Not One but Two Types of Allergic Reactions
By Heather Legg
Though it’s not one of the allergy “biggies,” avocados cause their share of allergies. And though they usually don’t cause the extreme reactions that other allergens may cause, there is still a possibility of anaphylaxis when it comes to avocados. The distinction between the reactions is connected with the type of avocado allergy, because there are two types.
According to this website, the two types of avocado allergy are 1) oral allergy syndrome connected to birch pollen and 2) allergies connected to latex allergy.
If you suffer from the first type, the birch-pollen allergy, you can develop local symptoms in the mouth, lips and throat including itching and inflammation. Symptoms either show up immediately or up to 1 hour after eating fresh avocado or an avocado-containing food. This is oral allergy syndrome and is contained to the mouth, lips and throat without leading to a systemic type reaction, which includes hives, stomach upset and anaphylaxis among other symptoms. Though oral allergy symdrome can be quite uncomfortable, it isn’t life threatening on its own.
The other type of allergy to avocado, related to a latex allergy is more severe. This is known as the latex fruit allergy and is caused by the similarity of allergens in avocados and natural latex. The symptoms are more severe, including generalized urticaria, abdominal pain, vomiting and sometimes life-threatening symptoms like anaphylaxis.
Other foods which cause this type of reaction are bananas, melons, mango, chestnuts, and kiwis.
Though neither of these allergies is likely to be outgrown, the oral allergy syndrome usually does not become more severe or develop into the latex fruit allergy. It is important to be aware of the other foods in this category, because sometimes an allergy to one or more of them will develop. For a complete list, see AllergyClinic. This site also provides other good information on this topic.
Like other food allergies, there aren’t shots available for treatment, though you can try a holistic method to relieve your symptoms. Avoidance is a good choice and some choose to carry an Epipen, especially if it is the latex related allergy that you have. Be aware of ingredients and cross contamination with an avocado allergy. Remember guacamole is made from avocados. Avocados are becoming more widely used so be aware in restaurants. Check ingredients of items you buy, and though avocados usually don’t sneak into the ingredient list, avocado oil can. It can also be found in many lotions and soaps. Use the same caution you would with any other allergen.
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people can’t get allregic to avacados, this is all one big lie and anyone who thinks other wise is ignorant
my eyesight is so really bad
people can’t get allregic to avacados but certain people may develope life threatening illnesses which justify the ascertaining and inquiry of wether or not an avacado can cause an allergic reaction such as anaphylaxis, considering anaphylaxis is as real as it gets.
I got puffy eyes and some cold symptoms like sneezing and a runny nose after handling an avacado. Whether or not it was because of the avacado I am not sure, though it would make sense because I get rashes whenever latex is touching my skin for a period of time.
The reaction to avacado’s is most certainly real. I loved and ate them all my life and when i turned 50 I started to get very bad stomach pains along with the feeling that I was going to vomit every time I ate them. I have no problem eating banana’s, melon’s or mango’s, just avacado’s. They will no longer be a part of my diet.
This is definately true. I ate a normal days worth of food yesterday, except that for a snack I had some chips and guac, which is something I just started enjoying. Later that night I almost keeled over because of my stomach pain and then had really slimy diarrhea. I have no other explanation other than the avocados.
I love avocados (especially guacamole), but I cant eat them any more because I am highly allergic to them now. I get very severe stomach pains, vomiting and a whole bunch of other fun stuff. Its horrible! I am now allergic to kiwi too. I sure hope bananas are not next. For those who say you cant be allergic to avocados, I dont know why you would even say something like that.
I suffer from both avocados and latex. My eyes also react to something. I discovered the latex problem when I was young during hospital visits. The avocado problem came on with tingling and numbness in my mouth and lips and within 30 minutes cold sweat and vomit. Once voided all seems well again – but it is one hour of grief – the problem is, I love guacamole – but I guess it don’t love me!
I nearly died 2 months ago from eating an avocado. I have eaten them before but not often. This time i had a severe anaphylaxic attack and collapsed. Very scary indeed. I`m now having blood tests etc. at allergy clinic to test for latex allergy and nuts etc. I am also a hayfever sufferer and the usual time i have eaten avovados before was summer and i was taking anti-histimines for hayfever. This time i wasn`t taking anti-histimines so could this be related? Makes you wonder
I suffer from the first type, “the birch-pollen allergy,” I develop local symptoms in the mouth, lips and throat such as the “itching and inflammation.” It’s really scary because I feel like my throat is closing on me. The weird thing is, I’m allergic to avocado but NOT to guacamole!
I was a banana a day kid but by age 10 developed severe stomach,neck and shoulder pain.By age 20 avocados did the same thing only worse with tingling in my mouth.I dont even have to injest it.Bummer living in the avocado belt.
I love avocadoes. But a few years ago I started getting itchiness on the roof of my mouth. Wether it’s a plain avocadoe or in food just the roof of my mouth gets itchy. I try to ignore it an keep enjoying my guacamole but it’s a huge pain in the ass
What a relief to read of other people who have the same reaction. I also used to eat so many bananas as a kid, but when I hit about age 18 they started giving me awful stomach pains. I soon found out avocado & kiwi do the same. I’m now 33 years old and trace amounts of these foods give me a pain so bad that I curl up in the fetal position for 8 hrs at a time.
I just landed on this forum because about half an hour ago some guac snuck into a burrito I ordered at a restaurant. I had only taken about 3 bites, but the pains are coming on pretty quickly.
Does anyone know how we can counter these reactions if we don’t have an epi-pen? Pepto doesn’t work. Pain meds don’t work. Maybe antihistimines?
Update: It’s been about 3 hrs since my last post. About 30 min after I wrote, I decided to try benadryl and the pain has lessened SIGNIFICANTLY. I can still feel a little pain, but nothing like a normal avocado attack. I think I may be on to something here!
oh. time zone was wrong. It’s only been 2 hrs.
Yes people CAN be allergic to avocados:
http://jonskifarms.wordpress.com/2006/04/08/avocado-allergy/
Thanks for the info about the Benadryl, Andrea.
Really William ? Why is it then that the whole reason why I visited this site was strictly because my husband had just finished an avocado and immediately after his mouth started to itch and tongue started to swell? He was not eating any other food . Just the avocado. Which led me to look up allergies to the fruit . And sure enough the Exact description of what he had experienced is documented here. I think it would be unwise to assume any one is ignorant for believing their symptoms have been caused by an allergy .
Avocado allergies are definitely real, when i eat even a small amount my throat starts tingling and swells shut.
I have seen patients who reacted to banana and avocado with phlebitis (inflammation of veins) and thrombosis. It is also described in medical literature.
Has anybody else seen such a case?
Alexa Fleckenstein M.D., physician, author.
All my life, if im even in the same room with feathers, or I touch latex or many plastics, or eat a ripe avocado, banana, tomato, or raw spinach, corn, eggs, or rye, coffee, my throat itches and swells till blisters pop and make sores/blisters and I have a severe asthma attack, or have excruciating abdominal cramps worse than child labor or delivery, unless already taking, or I take benadryl or claratin. I wonder if anyone knows why the same under ripe foods or cooked spinach isn’t a problem for me???
I have been told that my Avocado allergy was all in my head. While I knew it wasn’t true, I felt compelled to see if others had the same reaction. What a relief to find out that I am not the only one! It took 3 times for me to realize that I had an allergy. I had two reactions that consisted of stomach pain and vomiting. Thought it could have been a bug – just a coincidence. The third episode was the worst and was from only scant traces of avocado. I removed all the avocado pieces from a fish taco, and then ate the taco. Within an hour, I was doubled over with severe vomiting. After about 4 hours of agony, all was well. I can’t even stand to look at an avocado now. And, yes, I do have a latex allergy.
I’m 57. When I was a child I hated and refused to eat bananas and avocados. In college a friend made me a smoothie (we called them health shakes in the 70′s) made with a banana. Though I hated it, I drank it to be polite, and promptly threw up. Around the same time learned that I actually did like guacamole, but after eating it I would vomit.
Since then, I continue to avoid raw bananas (fried plantains or banana bread is OK), and have learned that I can eat about 2 tablesppons of guacamole without throwing up.
I have no problem with kiwis or berries, and I don’t think I have a latex allergy.
I don’t believe I have a latex
I also am allergic to avocados bananas and sum nuts not too severe but I do get the itching in my mouth and what not…
I discovered my avacado allergy at 18 -with all the “stomach flu” like symptoms and they are ugly. Now it seems that drinking from “PBA free” plastics are causing shoulder and muscle pain. PBA free products contain resin from the rubber tree that gives us latex. There has to be a connection – I definately have more research to do. Anyone else have a problem with BPA free plastics…????
I have eaten avocados all my life with no problem until 2 years ago. My throat was swollen and I was very close to having my wife drive me to the emergency room. A week later I ate a small amount with no problem and then resumed eating them. Last night it happened again which prompted me to research it. I have no other allergies save mild hay fever in the spring.
I recently ate an overly ripe avacoda = which I made into guacamoli! Shortly after eating it I actually got blisters all over my mouth & gums! Very painful! I have hayfever= I’m also allergic to watermelons = all melons & walnuts! Iam also allergic to mayonaise from subway & burger king& generic types as well Bananas & raw potatoes also make my throat itchy! Needless to say no more avacodo for me! I have to be very careful!
Wow. I love avocados and bananas. Last year, a lazy dinner would be chips and guacamole. Around that time I was having horrible stomach pains–I expected something to come forth “Alien” style. I actually went to the doctor because I was having trouble walking. All sorts of tests, to my shock everything was normal, but this pain was definitely NOT. After a few months I realized the pain went away when I stopped eating guacamole for dinner! So i thought I had diverticulitis–but I didn’t know they would have picked the pouches from that on the MRI and it only bothers me when I eat guacamole. This is so sad. At least its not chocolate though. Thanks for sharing, glad to see what others have gone through, alot of “click” moments.
I have always had an allergic reaction to fresh avacados and sometimes bananas. My mother teases me about being a fresh/ripe avacado geiger counter.. older guac or the faker guac never sets it off. Lasts about 30 minutes and makes me insane.
Still love avacados and guac though. 
I must be a masochist.
My experience with guac has been that with enough lime juice and time the avacado essentially becomes cooked and will not cause a reaction. I can only speak to this being useful for the first type of allergy as thats what I have personally experienced.
I am allergic to latex and avocados. I accidentally ate guacamole in my burrito 4 hours ago & I still have abdominal pains. Never again do I want to go through this. I throw up(amongst other things) every time.
In my early 20′s, living in the Mid West…had a horrible stomach cramps & vomiting after eating an avocado…. A few months later, same thing after eating a hamburger with avocado… Again after eating guacamole… I gave up… People kept telling me there was not allergy to Avocado. I didn’t care…I was going to eat them ever again. My husband who witnessed all these, was always first at every restaurant to make sure no Avocado or Guacamole was on the plate. Thank you for finally explaining what I knew was true 27 years ago. I have had people say “I would die if I couldn’t eat avocados” & I always reply….after I ate them, I thought I was going to die.
I also ate bananas & avocado as a kid with no problems. As I got older I put on a bit of excess weight, and around the age of 25 could no longer eat bananas or avocados without seeing it come back in reverse (yuck). Interesting update, tho! I lost a good deal of weight about 7 years ago (close to 50 lbs) and one day accidentally ate the equivalent of half a banana. No reaction! I was brave (or stupid depending how you look at it) and then tried eating half an avocado. Again – no reaction! It has been seven years now that i can eat those foods. I have to think that by losing weight my hormones changed or something, and my body no longer rejects those foods. I don’t know if this will last, but it does show some hope that our bodies can change things around on us when we’re not looking!
Please, people, let’s not make sweeping generalizations such as you can’t develop allergies to this or that. Since an allergic reaction is the result of an over-active immune system, which wrongly goes after neutral substances, it’s hypothetically possible to develop allergies to anything. So, for those who like to make absolutist proclamations, please, check yourself before launching.
It’s comforting to see others with the same avocado allergy as myself and that I am not just crazy. Since, everyone always says, “How can you be allergic to avocados?!” I have the second type, bad stomach cramps, vomiting and another symptom that I haven’t heard anyone say yet… a weird intense pain in my back. I assume it is related to the intestinal issue, but has anyone else had this symptom? I too, started having these reactions around 18. I have never had any reactions to the other related foods. I have, however, a weird reaction to a food that I am unaware of. I get random patches on my tongue where the taste buds are completely gone, they get bright red, sometimes even bleed and are extremely painful. Has anyone ever had this? And if so do you know what it is from? A little help would mean A LOT!
I discovered the hard way that guac and avocados were giving me severe stomach cramps and diarrhea when I was about 23. I thought I’d gotten food poisoning a few times, it was so bad. I seem to be less tolerant of it as time goes on. Just got some fresh avocado in a sandwich yesterday and was sick before I finished the first half. I spent a nasty night sweating and cramping. Ugh! Glad to know it’s not just in my head and other people get this. I’ve been told it was the high fat content, but that seems odd because other fatty foods have no affect on me like this. Incidentally, I’ve never liked the taste or smell of melons, fresh mango, bananas, cucumbers, etc and get indigestion from them sometimes, but never cramping. Dried mango is fine. Latex is fine, far as I know. I used to wear latex gloves all day at work and no problems. I guess I should be careful, though!
It’s good to read this and know there are others! I have the 2nd type – severe stomach cramps, vomiting, head spins & feel like I’m burning up. Started in my early 20s. Like others – people always say “poor thing can’t eat avocado” and all I think is “UGH! why would anyone want to eat that vile stuff!”
I too suffer from an avocado allergy, the first kind, with the itching and swelling of my mouth and lips. Bananas, tomatos, avocados, walnuts. They all do that. It’s terribly frustrating. Bananas are the worst! The itching goes all the way from my lips to my stomach. I always thought I was crazy. Tomatos and avocado and bananas, all are allergins? I didn’t think it was possible. Thank you for opening my eyes
Thank God for this site! Last night after eating guacamole my palms started itching and I started sneezing. Then I got the worst stomach pain of my life! I started throwing up, this happened once before and I told my doctor, b he dismissed me and said it was ovarian cyst. Since the exact same thing happened to me the last time I guacamole (every time I eat them it makes my palms itch, makes sneeze and messes up my sinuses) I figured out it had to be the avocado and I googled avocado allergies and this site popped. Ugh Doctor’s can be so arrogant had my doctor just listened to me the first time all of this could have been avoided. I almost died! If you think you know what’s really wrong with you don’t let your doctor push you around SPEAK UP!
I recently developed a pretty bad allergy to avocado. My question is: Can any doctor explain why for 30 years you can enjoy avocado and then suddenly have a violent reaction to it?
I have had the stomach cramping, pain and diarrhea for years with pineapple. Only over the past few years have I reacted to avacado, and most recently delicata squash was added to the list. It is helpful to see others have had similar symptoms, as my doc thinks it’s just “bad” food, not an allergy. Benadryl and drinking regular COKE works for my symptoms.
When I was 18 I had stomach pains after eating guacamole. I didn’t connect it to avacados until I ate an avacado sandwich and the same severe stomach pains came back. I stopped eating avacados and just thought my stomach was sensitive to them. (I had eaten guacamole as a child many, many times with no problems). Recently my RN mother reminded me of the relationship between avacado allergies and latex allergies. I am in a health program at school and I’m wearing latex gloves many times each week. My Dental Hygiene textbook (Wilkins 2011) does state that an avacado allergy increases the risk of developing a latex allergy.
I developed an allergy to avocado around age 25. I would eat it, then get itchy lips and mouth. I continued to eat it on occasion because it’s SO DELICIOUS. Unfortunately, last month I had an incident – I didn’t even eat an avocado. My boyfriend had just eaten a ton of guacamole and then gave me a kiss on my lips. About 30 minutes later my top lip was 5 times its size and I had a horrible cough and itchy throat. So, yeah, I’m done with avocado…and it is a very real allergy.
Avocados, bananas, and a few other foods are all related to a latex allergy. Those foods bothered me a bit off and on over the years but now that my latex allergy has become sever, I have to be extra careful when eating those foods while or within a few days of a latex exposure.
I, like Joan W. above I have eaten avocado my whole life with no problems. One day out of the blue I had a terrible allergic reaction to it. VMy head itched like crazy, I got severe hives all over my body, I vomited, and my throast started to close. The doctor gave me Benadryl and a few hours later I was perfectly fine. The doctor said Avocado is one of the foods that an allergic reaction can arise out of the blue. I have not eaten one since. Scared to!
I never knew I was sensitive to avocados but did noticed dizziness and stomach pains after eating them (always thought it was another food that I ate with avocados. Then one day after reading how wonderful avocados were for ur skin as a facial, I slathered one on my face….within seconds my skin felt like it was on fire! I washed it off very quickly. No longer do I eat (or put on my skin) avocados!
When you grow up with allergies and allergic parents, you learn to live with all of it. Seems normal when you don’t know any better. I’ve always had allergies to avocado, bananas, melons, nuts….and the list goes on. In fact, my allergy tests look as though I’m allergic to life itself. You can’t live in a bubble or you won’t experience anything. Within the last few years, I’ve experienced 2 anaphylactic reactions. The first one while taking RUSH allergy shots, the second one (egg induced) put me in the ER. So, I’m a little more apprehensive now, more knowledgeable and decisive about whether I want to experience the EPI-pen blues for the next week. Here’s to all of us who brush it off and keep going!
I used to love avocados when i was younger and all through high school but i discovered i was allergic when i was about 18, no-one believed me (including doctors i went to) and no-one still believes me, they think am faking. Well people say most africans dont get allergies but atleast now i know there are people like me, am sane and i dint create sumthn in my head.
started with bananas aged 22, added avocados at 35, plums at 37 and am searching for prawns linked to this as it’s my latest. think i’ve always had latex as when i was a small child i would get horrendous stomach cramps with no explanation but thinking back it was probably due to sucking a dummy. anyone heard of prawns being associated with the banana avocado thong?
thing!!! NOT thong
Does anyone react to lotions with avocado in them?
My 2 yr old’s cheeks turn red and hot when I use an all natural lotion on her containing (among other things) avocados. She has never reacted to anything else and loves bananas. I have a latex allergy but don’t react to this lotion. (I get a rash when I wear latex gloves my mouth hurts when I eat bananas, kiwis, and mango’s.)
Any ideas?
My girlfriend just ate some her lips and throught started swelling up and she is freaking out!..we are hedding to the hostpilat right now!!!!….beware!!!
The pain when I eat avocados is so severe I sometimes think my stomach is trying to disolve itself, and for about 12 hrs I never know whether to sit on or stand over the toilet.
I now react if someone has just used the same utencils on my food without cleaning it after preparing avocado for someone else.
Latex, Bananas, Kiwi’s, Mangos, and pineapple are also dicey however not quite as severe.
More scientific research should be done on this allergy as there is very little awearness and/or knowledge about it in the scientific and wider communities.
Wow, I’m not alone! Loved avocados until a few years ago–sudden severe stomach cramps every time I eat even a bite! The change occurred around 50, along with menopause…Nothing else affects me like this.
These people are crazy. Just because you or anyone you know doesn’t suffer from an avocado allergy doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I grew up eating avocado with no reaction til I was 14 when I nearly went anaphylactic. My tongue swelled huge and my throat started to close. It took several hours before the selling subsided. I’m pretty sure I have the birch pollen allergy, which is the lesser of the two, but it is still scary. (Also sucks because I love avocado.) I read somewhere that boiling the avocado can kill the allergen, I couldn’t find any information on how long to boil. I have done this twice. I still am too scared to eat a larger quantity, but am testing the waters. Today I boiled two for about 10 min. and made guacamole with them. I ate about 1 tablespoon. I havn’t had any oral symptoms but an really sneezy. I don’t know of this is related our not. I am going to take a benadryl and I will post back.
@ Random Something – Sounds like she has a the allergy. I am only allergic to avocado and not the other associated fruits. Be careful!
Each time I eat avocado my lips begin to hurt, then blister and swell, then my gums and tongue burn and my throat itches for hours. i never had food allergies prior to two years ago, but when I developed them it began with avocado.
This happened to me as well and I’m an every day eating avocado mexican. Fortunately it goes away in less than 10 minutes. But this berly started in my adulthood.
I have never had a reaction to avocado until today from eating one last night. I only have skin problems, painful burning and huge red scaly patches on my face and neck. I get the same reactions from mangoes which just started a year ago, and certain wines, which started about five years ago. Oranges have made me throw up for 20+ years.I don’t like bananas, walnuts, or melons so I could have problems with them too. It is so strange that they just pop up out of the blue. I have always been allergic to animals and pollens, these are better as I age (I’m 43) but the food allergies are getting worse. Very wierd.
I LOVE avocado’s!! I usually eat them pretty regularly. I made guc. for Thanksgiving this year. We didn’t have many. I noticed a few of them were super dark in color instead of green. I asked my mother if I should still use them, she said yes. About 20 mins. after I ate guc my upper lip started swelling. Nobody could physically see it, but I felt like it was huge! I’m gonna go buy some avocados today and hope I can eat them!!
I found this site when I Googled “avocado allergy” after I had a suspected reaction to avocado because I was curious to see if there really was such a thing. I grew up in Texas eating Tex-Mex so guacamole was practically a whole food group by itself lol. I always loved guac and never had a problem with it until a few years ago. When I first got the stomach cramping, diarrhea and nausea I didn’t associate it with the guac/avocado; like other posters I thought it was food poisoning or overindulgence etc. The second time it happened I was suspicious of the guac, but still thought “Who ever heard of being allergic to AVOCADOS?!?” And since I’d always eaten them with no problem I thought that couldn’t possibly be the cause. Well tonight I had guac for the first time in a couple of years (I’ve since moved to Colorado and it’s not as popular here as it is in Texas) and here I am again with the stomach woes!! So since this is the third time it’s happened, and I can’t trace it to anything else, I’m convinced it’s an allergy to avocados. It really can develop “overnight.” I don’t have problems with any of the other associated foods, nor with latex. My allergy doesn’t seem to be quite as severe as some of the other posters; my stomach hurts pretty bad but not HORRIBLY. I also tend to feel hot and break out in a sweat during an attack. I’ve found that a Gas-X pill works wonders once the symptoms start. I never tried the Benadryl because I never thought of it as an “allergy” until tonight, but I will remember that for the future. Interestingly, I have been taking Benadryl since before you could get it OTC, when you still needed a prescription for it. (One time Mom let me run out of the elixir and I had a bad reaction in the middle of the night, so she had to go running all over town looking for a 24-hour pharmacy!) I started taking it when I was 4 years old (I’m 40 now) for an allergic reaction (hives) but it was never definitively determined what caused the reaction. It happened the night after my folks took me trick-or-treating for the first time and let me eat some of the candy (Mom says they’d never let me have candy before, EVER) so “sugar” got the blame. That sure sucked as a kid!! As an adult, I’ve made up for all the sugar I didn’t get to eat growing up lol so I can tell you that’s not it. But reading that others took Benadryl for the avocado reaction kinda gave me a “doh!” moment, like “why didn’t I think of that?!?” Live and learn I guess. Thank God for sites like this! I would never have believed a person could actually be allergic to avocados until I experienced it myself and found this site. I like avocados/guac but not enough to suffer with the stomach cramps so I think I will just avoid them in the future. The only thing that gives me an anaphylactic-type reaction (throat swelling closed, etc.) is ibuprofen. That sucks too because ibuprofen is all they want to give you when you’re in the hospital lol. After I had my fourth child via C-section the nurse wanted to give me ibuprofen for the pain but I told her I was allergic. She thought about that a minute and then asked me, “What happens when you take it?” I told her “my throat swells shut” and she said “Oh, never mind!” Funny how far the medical establishment still has to go when it comes to understanding allergies and taking them seriously. Apologies for the long post but this sure seems to be the place to let it out lol!! Thanks everyone
I am thankful that I found this site – I usually eat Avocados about once a week, and have done for years, but tonight I ate one which was a little under-ripe, and within half an hour, the whole right side of my face swelled up, especially inside my mouth.
I have taken an antihistamine tablet and held some ice-cold water in my mouth for a minute, and I think it may be helping to take the swelling down.
I have never had any reaction to Avocados before, and I hope I never do again!
When I was 16 I ate kiwi fruit for the first time and developed a very tight, closed in throat which only died down a few hours later. I’ve avoided them ever since and thought this was my only allergy, however late last year I developed a similar reaction to avocados (which I love!). This evening I ate a banana (a fruit I haven’t eaten in some time) and have experienced the same tingly tongue and tight throat – my allergies seems to be expanding to different foods and getting worse over time!
I picked up some avocado’s at the store wensday evening thinking it would be a great suppliment to my lunches for work. I’ve had them few and far between through the years, and loved them with pepper. I ate one late wensday night and another at lunch the next day. By thurs night, I had a slightly constricted throat and lungs, dizziness, and a harsh pain in my lower back. I naturally thought it was some bug I picked up and was nursed through it til Sat evening It went away. I hadn’t had much to eat during the day, so I popped open an avocado and slurp! Down it went. The symptoms returned, and I put two and two together. I’ve never been allergic to anything in my life, guess I’ll have to change my response to “Are you allergic to???”
Within the past year I eat Avacado or Guacamole I get the WORST pain in my stomach for about 5 hours. I break out in a sweat. I also get stomach pain with Cashews and recently with a pear. I thought it was due to no gall bladder. I have not had a problem with the latex as of yet. I do have a problem with certain pillows. No allergy up until age 45. strange.