*winces* That's... awful. Does it carry over at all to other citrus?
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Replying to @SageNatural
I have to cook any fruit and vegetable and herb to eat it. Tea is tricky because I am allergic to some flowers (chamomile) and possibly others so I can only drink standard bagged black tea. So citrus all needs to be cooked. Bergamot seems fine in distilled beverages.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @SageNatural
As long as it’s added pre-distillation. It sucks because I love earl grey. Was my favourite tea.
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I could theoretically microwave the tea. But I don’t have a microwave
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I could do that too, although I still have to worry about cross contamination with certain flowers and possibly tree derivatives, i.e. bark. If it was store bought earl grey it might not be a problem. Something to test eventually.
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Thank you for being patient with all the random questions. Your circumstance is one I have not run into before - and actually seems more viciously frustrating to navigate than my own - which is impressive. I wish you luck.
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Yeah I have a strange case. I’ve had allergy tests and nothing came up, but I still have reactions. It could be classed under “oral allergy syndrome” b/c for people with OAS they react to raw fruit/veg/herbs etc and usually need them cooked. It’s linked to pollen allergies usu.
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Have you had patch tests done? I know that my allergist decided to do a sizable panel of those-and it turns out I have contact allergies to a small list of incredibly common things. Which may explain a number of the things I have issues with. (Then again, so does MCAS.)
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....one of the things that popped was formaldehyde, of all things. Which means there are foods I didn't know I needed to avoid that I now should probably avoid. (Including shitake mushrooms, which is a sadness.)
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Nope, only scratch tests with very high concentrations. They’re expensive to get done and hard to find an allergist in Ireland (I got my tests in Canada where I’m from). But patch tests have to be done at a different specialist in Canada anyway.
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