Is it possible to crave what you're allergic to? — Page 2

Yeah. So you remember that you liked it? Which, I guess would explain why you'd want to. I don't remember liking it at all, or disliking it... consciously, at least.

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Sometimes if I'm craving something I'm allergic to, if I eat something that is similar to it, it helps...

luvtheemcee I know of a brand of food that makes dairy free pizza and it's really good :)

I'm also kind of curious, since I don't really know anyone else with food allergies... do you have to be compleatly dairy-free, or can you have things that say in the ingreadiants "this food made on equipment that also processes milk/peanuts"? I'm too scared to eat those foods lol.

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That kind of peanut allergy also depends on the processing. There are two types of peanut oil that differ by the way they're processed, and many people who are allergic to peanuts are only allergic to one kind, and can eat the other without any issue.

abba, I've had the dairy-free pizza, but something tells me it's not the same.

It blows my mind that people would voluntarily eat something they know they're allergic to, but maybe that's just becuase the reactions I could have would be so severe. I mean, I don't understand why people can be like "well, I may not be able to breathe, and my throat MIGHT close, but you know, I just really want to eat this anyway." I mean, isn't that kind of scary?

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Well, like any drug, you can become immune to it if you use it too much. You're also supposed to get your ass to a hospital as soon as you use an Epipen. Using it too much isn't great for your heart rate, either; epinephrine is basically adrenaline.

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Updated On: 4/13/05 at 04:20 PM

This is quite the interesting conversation. I am actually allergic to a lot of things so I know how you guys all feel. Although I can't really say about the craving thing because, although many times I crave something I have never had- like pizza- they have great substitutes for it so I just eat that. I wonder if it's more like, when everyone around you is eating it you crave it but if you're alone it's not such a big deal. Maybe not. But I'm definelty feeling you guys because I know exactly how it is. Hope to talk more about this...

EDIT: About the whole, eating things you know you shouldn't eat thing, I think everybody knows their body's limitation depending on how serious their condition is. I personally, will not die if I eat something that I shouldn't, but I do get sick. But sometimes I can eat a very little and it won't do anything, and sometimes it will. It just depends. I try to eat the very least amount possible.

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Updated On: 4/13/05 at 07:22 PM

This topic made me want pizza.... I made it without cheese :P
I drink soymilk and I have been told that the SilkMilk Un-Sweetened tastes almost just like milk.
I have alot of recipies witout milk eggs and peanuts/peanut oils so if anyone is interested in them, you can send me an IM. :)

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Thanks abba! I'm not pm-ing this b/c I'm curious to know others' symptoms from their food allergies (if it developed later in your life.. relatively writing)?

I have a strange reaction. It begins with my pinky and ring finger in my left arm (I use this now as a signal to find Benadryl... quickly). I then start feeling a weird sensation on my head. Shortly after, my throat feels like it is about to close up, sometimes I get very sick (I'll leave it at that). I met one other people whose symptoms developed the same exact way. However, when I went to an allergist (who was completely useless) she could not help me.

My allergist was useless too. So I still don't know what I'm allergic to.
I get an itchy scalp first, then break out in hives, then my lip, eye, tongue or throat, or a combo of all, swell up. It's sexy as hell!
But I seem to be building a tolerance to whatever it is cause it rarely happens anymore.

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My dad's allergic to peaches...I feel really bad, they're so good.

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Thanks for posting your reactions . Food allergies are so serious and they generally don't get the attention they deserve. For example, I used to eat this great low fat muffin from the coffee place at my university. A few times, I started feeling the reaction come on, but I ignored it... I mean, it was a muffin. It definitely got worse as I continued to eat it (I'm so stupid sometimes, but it was a great bran muffin) and finally, I got really sick after the last time I ate it. I asked the people who worked there about the ingredients and of course, they had no idea. There was no place I could search to find the ingredients. After emailing some people at UM, someone replied with the list. Turned out, there was soy flour in there. I asked why they couldn't make it available, in addition to the ingredients in other food items. They said it was too much of a hassle. Typing that to the wife of an attorney was probably not a smart idea... I informed them of the liability w/ regard to having less than knowledgeable people selling the items and no reference available to consumers. They replied that it was too large an undertaking to list everything and I should stay away from foods that I suspected to contain allergic ingredients. So circular... had I suspected soy flour in a bran muffin, I would have never had it in the first place!

Anyone else had experiences like that?

I had a cross-cantamination thing once... I was at this Japaneese resturaunt, Ginza, and I ordered a shimp roll, figuring I would be safe, since the shrimp was cooked and fresh... little did I know, they would be cooking it on a grill that was greased up with butter...
I hate it when places won't give you the ingredients to something... I have experienced that quite a bit at Price Chopper... is it really so hard to stop what you're doing for 30 seconds to hand me a sheet with ingredients on it?
I like to go to Wild Oats alot and there is this great vegan cafe near my house, but I'm still a little weary of stuff from there, becaused just because vegans don't like to eat dairy and eggs, nothing bad will happen to them if the do eat something that accidentally has milk in it. (like the so-called vegan carrot cake... )
Alot of resturaunts will make a special dish for you if you explain your allergies to them... Chili's did for me
I go to the food allergy network site alot, because they always have recalls on there of foods that have un-listed ingredients.

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Em, Abba..

"It blows my mind that people would voluntarily eat something they know they're allergic to, but maybe that's just becuase the reactions I could have would be so severe. I mean, I don't understand why people can be like "well, I may not be able to breathe, and my throat MIGHT close, but you know, I just really want to eat this anyway." I mean, isn't that kind of scary?"

I can't really explain it. I dont know why people do it.. Hell I did it last night and made myself soo very sick. I dont do it very often and everytime I do I swear I wont do it again. One of these days I will learn..

As for the milk thing.. I never crave that because although I am allergic to it (not as severely as EM, but enough to make me very ill) I have tasted it. And frankly its nasty..

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