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Why Some Summer Fruits Make Your Tongue Itch, Even If You're Not Allergic - HuffPost

Why Some Summer Fruits Make Your Tongue Itch, Even If You're Not Allergic - HuffPost

Why Some Summer Fruits Make Your Tongue Itch, Even If You're Not Allergic - HuffPost
Jun 23, 2022 1 min, 30 secs

Simply speaking: your body recognizes the proteins in the fresh fruit you just consumed as similar to those found in pollen, which you’re actually allergic to.

“It’s usually a reaction to fresh fruits, nuts or vegetables that develops in patients who have hay fever, which is an allergy to tree, grass or wheat pollens,” explained Dr.

“About 15% of patients have a reaction to fresh fruits and vegetables because the immune system mistakes the fruit protein for the pollen protein.” Your body quite literally thinks you’ve just ingested the type of pollen that you’re allergic to!

Which is to say: the reaction that many people associate with summer fruits isn’t relegated to that season, but simply indicates a sensitivity to one type of pollen.

If you have an anaphylactic-like reaction to the consumption of any of these foods, you might actually be allergic to the fruits, vegetables or nuts themselves—not simply displaying a sensitivity to their cross-reacting pollen.

The easiest way to avoid having a reaction to any of these fruits, vegetables and nuts, of course, is to avoid eating them entirely.

That is because cooking the fruits, vegetables and nuts actually changes their protein makeup and the immune system will no longer associate said protein to the various other allergens.

Once you recognize the fruits or vegetables you are having a reaction to, you can do a skin test to check your sensitization to the pollen.

It has not been proven successful to “outgrow” the syndrome by simply eating more of the fruits, nuts and vegetables that are causing a reaction instead of going through the therapy.

After figuring out what type of fruits, vegetables and nuts are causing a reaction, consider taking a skin test in order to learn what pollen you’re actually allergic to

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