Why Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
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More people have food allergies than ever before. Peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, eggs, and even milk… the list of possibly dangerous foods seems to get longer every day. But why do some people’s bodies have deadly reactions food? And why are food allergies on the rise? In this video we explain what food allergies really are, and what the difference is between food allergy and food intolerance. Some fellow RUclipsrs tell us their stories of what it’s like to live with food allergies, and we bring you the best current science on how to prevent food allergies in kids and adults. It’s a tough nut to crack. #FoodAllergy #Allergies #FoodScience
Special thanks to WheezyWaiter and Emily Graslie for sharing their food allergy stories with us!
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Sathe, S. K., Liu, C., & Zaffran, V. D. (2016). "Food allergy." Annual review of food science and technology, 7, 191-220.
Tyagi, Nidhi, et al. "Comparisons of allergenic and metazoan parasite proteins: allergy the price of immunity." PLoS computational biology 11.10 (2015): e1004546.
Willits, Erin K., et al. "Food Allergy: A Comprehensive Population-Based Cohort Study." Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Vol. 93. No. 10. Elsevier, 2018.
Wong, L., Huang, C. H., & Lee, B. W. (2016). "Shellfish and house dust mite allergies: is the link tropomyosin?." Allergy, asthma & immunology research, 8(2), 101-106.
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It's Okay To Be Smart I’m allergic to peanuts I hate it
When I was a baby I was deathly allergic to peanuts all peanuts. Later I developed a peach and egg allergy and milk. Now in adulthood I’m still allergic to eggs, I’m afraid to eat any sort of shellfish. I’m milk intolerant and allergic to bananas and now the last few years bread and wheat products have been making me sick. It’s frustrating and I’m kind of afraid to get food allergy tested because then I’ll find I can’t eat anything! And I love food lol 😂
Hey Joe Hansen. You should go vegan for a month and make a video about it. It would be great.
@@lakrids-pibe It's been done.
Great video i like the part when mat pat (from game theory) is there
I've been allergic to peanuts my whole life and I find it comically ridiculous that my body's reaction to peanuts is basically, "Hey this might be harmful, let me kill you before it get the chance to".
It's a funny thing. I'm the same and it really is crazy to think that my body's response to peanuts is, "If you put this in me, I will NOT hesitate to self destruct."
Dude I can't even smell peanuts or I can go into antifliatic shock :/
It is a real bad joke.
@@papertowels9162 *I will initiate self destruct* the body is weird sometimes.
There is the venom theory of peanut butter allergies. There was a RUclips clip on seeker.
I love how my package of almonds has a warning label on the back that says 'CONTAINS ALMOND'😋
You gotta protect yourself from idiots
This is a very very US thing. In most countries, stupidity is not protected by law
Package clearly labeled as "walnuts"
INGREDIENTS: SHELLED WALNUTS
WARNING: CONTAINS WALNUTS
or even worse, when a bar of milk chocolate says "made on equipment that processes milk" but not "contains milk" even though milk is.in the ingredients
Retards will sue
I’ve been allergic to eggs, dairy, and tree nuts since a child and I’ve never really thought about it, I’ve just always instinctively looked at the ingredients of foods
Same I have the same allergies.
Same same same but all nuts
@@suryadamemer9405 yeah me too forgot to list that, that’s weird it looks like these allergies are common
I recently got myself into being a prediabetic, and now I have to check labels for carbs and fiber content.
As someone who never had to think of ingredients for 50 years, it's *really* annoying.
When I told my friends I have peanut allergies and I have to read food labels they were shocked, like I find it no problem to look at ingredients but since they never do it’s a shocker to them
I grew up with a friend who had a nut allergy (This was back in the 80's before allergies were even accepted as a thing) but he didn't just react to nuts but would react to other people who had touched or eaten nuts, so if we had nuts we had to warn him to avoid skin contact for the rest of the day, he called it 'Essence of Nut'. He was the only person I knew with a food allergy first the first 21 years of my life.
It's not that they weren't accepted as a thing, they weren't a thing. Far fewer people had allergies and nobody died from allergies. You blew your nose, took an antihistamine and that was it. Nowdays people die from peanuts and nobody questions why? We ate gobs of peanuts in the 70s and 80s and nobody was allergic to them.
@@davemiller6055 its also not big in other parts of the world like china. I think it has something to do with our diet and the toxins in the food eaten during pregnancy. your diet also effects which bacteria we have in our gut which may be the reason for the overreaction to the allergens.
@@davemiller6055 nut allergy is non existant in indonesia. and i guess other 3rd world country too.
@@duxdog I'm pretty sure it's the glyphosate and GMO foods.
@@PenguinCrayon269 I'm pretty sure it's the glyphosate and GMO foods.
Allergies is basically a guy shooting at a spider with a bazooka inside his house
More like a ant lol
@@lukesmeby a ghost
Im allergic to cold so in the winter i have to go fast or i start to itch
@@tubularfantasy defuq, allergic to cold? And I though that Renaud's syndrome was a problem.
@@AramatiPaz yea i know its weird
When I was a kid I wasn’t allergic to nuts at all and ate them regularly, but one day at the age of, I think 9 I ate a hazelnut (which I had eaten before) and got an intense reaction for no reason. I then got tested for nut allergy and it ended up showing not only hazelnut but a pretty strong allergy to most nuts excluding almonds.
I’m now 23 and about 2 years ago after having avoided all nuts but almonds since I got tested I tried just a tiny bit of peanut butter (which might have been stupid but that’s what I did) and waited for a while without any reaction, so I tried it again and still nothing. Eventually I tried a whole peanut butter sandwich and I had no reaction what so ever. I then tried nutella which has hazelnut in it which is what I was the most allergic to and I had absolutely no reaction.
I can now eat every kind of nut that I had become allergic to even if it isn’t processed into any food product without any reaction. So I went from having no allergy to being strongly allergic to all nuts back to not being allergic to them at all.
waddafq
Allergies have bipolar disorder confirmed
Peanuts aren't tree nuts at all, so it's normal that there was no reaction (same for almonds) But the allergy disappearing is sure wierd. We also can't have a reaction for something we have never been in contact with as the first time it enters our bodies, out immune system only flags the proteins as dangerous, they only react at the second exposure. (the wikipedia page is more precise about it if you want to know more)
aha wow, thats incredible. the closest i know of a similar situation is my brother, super allergic to dairy. he had some cocoa pebbles which apparently didn't have dairy before, but my mom rechecked the box after he ate a bowl, but he never had a reaction, and we never told him in case it would bring on the reaction late ahah
YOUR INTERNAL BODY SYSTEMS ARE DRUNK WTH
I believe the answer lies in pesticides and herbicides - glyphosate in particular.
I'm a gardener and remember well when glyphosate was introduced, my boss showing off that 'It's so safe, you can practically drink it!'
(Yes, he actually said that).
Up to its introduction, I didn't know a single person with an allergy - then suddenly kids were getting strawberry and then nut allergies. I'm not saying such allergies didn't exist before, there's always going to be some with weaker systems who develop allergies to something, but this was on an escalating scale.
By the very fact that it's already been proved glyphosate has a very negative influence on the complex bioflora in your gut (killing it, in short), then those parasites you mention may come in when your bioflora is particularly 'low' and do some 'damage' then.
Look how the number of people with allergies has increased over the years. Look at the number of those who have developed intolerances.
Can it be any 'mere' coincidence that the increase in allergy/intolerance cases happens at the same time the farming industry has in fact 'increased' its usage of glyphosate (from merely clearing fields of weeds to 'deliberately' spraying grain crops to desiccate all the plants for harvest at the optimum time)?
My family never had one instance of an allergy or even an intolerance - and now several of us have them: gluten, milk, food colouring, meat, eggs, bananas.
Meal times for us are more like a chemistry lesson now!
Just letting people know if you suddenly have a reaction involving whole body swelling/rash and you don't know what caused it, check to see If you have changed your washing powder. Some washing powders contain methisothiazolinone or benzisothiazolinone that can cause allergies in some people myself included. You may be allergic to one or both of these.
I'm guessing Tide has one or both of those in it because even smelling Tide on other people's clothes makes me ill. :P
Only swelling I get are from insect bites 😂
@@johndripper Same thing bro, specifically for the bee stings 🤣
God, who named those powders I had a stroke trying to read it
@@Crafty_Breeze Yeah those words aren't good for people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia either 😂
My uncle is extremely allergic to garlic, he might be a vampire.
Try a black light just in case
Do you see his reflection 😅😈
Have you ever observed him going to the beach?
BLAH , BLAH BLAH
Wish he is not Korean.. Yeah we put Garlic everywhere..
Nobody can die, if nobody is there to kill.
-Immune System on how to stop sickness
lmaoo yesss
Self-destruct
Growing up, I was severely allergic to lots of things. I was allergic to peanuts, treenuts, seafood, peas, beans, and probably a few others I can't remember. It was bad enough to the point that just the smell of some of these things, especially peanuts, could trigger anaphylaxis. Now things are better, but growing up knowing they eating ant of these things could potentially kill me has really affected me. I still refuse to eat any of these foods, although now I am only allergic to peanuts, and maybe nuts. I have been doing the microdosing he was talking about for peanuts for a few years now, so that has greatly helped me with that allergy. Now I can truly eat anywhere, and almost anything. Before it, I had to bring my own food to restaurants, and that really sucked.
Sorry for the whole essay here
ruclips.net/video/DTp53E9F1yM/видео.html
That's wonderful. I'm going to try this with my daughter.
@@abirajNYC please talk to a doctor first before just trying exposure therapy with your daughter. you may not give her the correct amount for it to be safe or in the appropriate intervals, or that type of therapy may not be right for her.
@@2GoatsInATrenchCoat yes her allergist is who I was referring.
@@abirajNYC A lot of city kids have food allergies. I think it's the pollution in cities causing the food allergies
It's strange, my brother was deathly allergic to shellfish and seafood and an intolerance to dairy when he was younger, he ate shellfish on accident ( I think it was seafood salad in a conch noodle) and nothing happened when before we had to rush him to a hospital from a restaurant (before we knew) and he no longer has problems with dairy, but now I have problems with dairy around the same time he was fine with dairy.
Proves it's contagious😂
I'm thinking sometimes allergies may be related to or be an indicator of the strength of a person's immune system at any given point in time. So, take for example your brother...maybe @ one time his immune system was compromised @ the time he ate seafood that he had the allergic reaction to. Fast forward a period of time, he accidentally eats something he's supposed to be allergic to & nothing happens. Honestly, I can't prove it, but since allergies are so intertwined with the immune system & responses...I would almost put money on this hypothesis. Maybe in the future you won't have problems with dairy if your immune system improves? I'm not saying go drink milk or anything, but maybe speak w/your doctor about the possibility.
The immune system is like the abusive older brother who protects you when the school bully comes but also beats you up in front of your friends.
@Agent 32 Aww :(
@Agent 32 your brother cant see
More like the older brother that beats up your new boyfriend/girlfriend when they try to take you out for dinner
@Agent 32 if you need help, I don't think the youtube comments are the place dude.
Big boy bullie..
The good old distorted MatPat picture, how you haunt me.
oof, The great has fallen, to the sad truth of passing 8 mil subs, and making crappy content.
@@zhianxu7992 he is doing the same crap since the begining, and i like it
@@TheZenytram well...
@@TheZenytram his ideas sound like the ones I get at 3am. Is that great content to you?
chun yan gong people can grow out of his videos
I still like it tho xD
Oh hey, you can see me in the background! Loved the collab
Yeah
I've been reading alot about "leaky gut syndrome" and how things like excessive growth of candida (due to antibiotics killing good bacteria in your body which normally keeps this under control) can cause your intestinal wall to weaken, allowing small food particles to escape into your body, which then your body starts attacking. Also plenty of other things can cause this "leaky gut syndrome". Perhaps this is a cause of this? Perhaps pestisides or overly processed foods can also attribute to this.
Leaky gut can cause food sensitivity and allergys as food particles that should be stopped leak into your body and your immune system attacks it. The new allergies increase your immune response and the problem grows and so does the list of foods you must avoid
Are we really asking this question? We as humans have essentially ruined the natural cycles and biochemistry in animals plants water air. Medications and synthetic chemicals along with greedy big pharma has all played a roll in causing a dominoe effect of disasters. You are naive and really need to study cause effect of our human history.
@@mikebradshaw8530 no need to be condescending.
@@mikebradshaw8530 you strike me as a very prickish person coming to a comment section to leak your liquid excrement out of your mouth. Science doesn't value your opinion.
@@mikebradshaw8530 Bruh
Not being taken seriously is frustrating. I was at the pharmacy to pick up my epipen renewal, and the pharmacy tech asked, just out of curiosity, why I needed it.
Me, “I’m allergic to ant bites. Deathly allergic.”
Him, “That’s just formic acid. You can’t be allergic to that.”
Me, after a very long pause, “You’re an idiot.”
Most Pharmacists I've met are pretentious assholes like that, thinking they know it all. They are bitter because they couldn't go to medical school and had to settle for pharmacy school. Lol.
Donnie Badfish now that’s just rude to people who worked hard to become a pharmacist and truly care for their patients.
@@steeldragonjovi hey, I'm just calling it like I see it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Donnie Badfish fair enough. That’s too bad you’ve come across such negative professionals. I’m a pharmacist, but I have respect and compassion for my patients, so I would hope they’d say something different! Lol 😜
@@steeldragonjovi cool. Maybe I shouldn't have made such a blanket statement. I've actually had good pharmacists. They were all at small mom-and-pop pharmacies though. The ones that have been jerks were all at big box stores like Walgreens or Wal-Mart.
Brain: Eat food or we die
Me: Ok
Brain: Oh and also don't eat food or we die
Me: Oh o.....wtf?
Sad thing is this is very true for Oxygen. Need it to live, but it's also highly corrosive and slowly killing you.
Dammit. :(
@@TheDrexxus how? is that why we age
@@Saedris That explains why "antioxidants" are good!
I-....I give up
To be honest as soon as we are born into this world, everything is actively and slowly aging and killing you 😂😂
I learned about food allergy in the United States. It's soooo common there and not in my country, Mexico. Further than that, in 1993, it was shocking for me to know about dogs (also in the U. S.) being allergic to certain kind of food!
I've literally always been allergic to peanuts, yet when i was younger my family had no idea that peanuts was causing my eczema and now hives. but the worst thing was that when i was younger is that peanuts were my favourite thing, i used to eat them in almost every single meal- but slowly as the years have gone by my allergies to peanuts have gotten worse, i never got a epipen from a doctor bc my allergies have never been serious enough and my reaction to peanuts is usually onset, but last week i ate a candy bar with peanuts in it that didnt say it had on in the front of the package (i dont usually check labels if im being honest) so i ate it but after tasting the peanuts i spit it right out, i probably swallowed now even half a peanut bc i took a small bite, but regardless of that how 5 days later im covered in hives and my face has been swollen for the past two days
I took a blood test...
Results: “congratulations, you have the possibility of developing over 10 different allergies”
Thank you, I’ll just eat air then.
@Adam Czerniewski no, then he will eat everything, and not eat air
Wanna know the worst allergy I’ve ever seen? Someone allergic to the sun
I’m allergic to Every type of nut, egg, milk, peas, bananas and oranges. God I hate my life.
The POSSIBILITY of developing 😂 don’t start getting all sassy until you actually HAVE the allergies. I have two kids with 15 allergens I have to cook for. THATS a pain in the butt.
Tara 907 I’m sure my mom feels your pain too. Lol. Oh well though, not my fault I have allergies!
"The peanuts are emitting toxins as an evolutionary defense mechanism. They're tired of being eaten, and now they're fighting back." ..... "Yup".🚬 👓
M. Night Shyamalan: Write that down, write that down.
The immune system is planning an overthrow of the existing government system by ambushing at the emergence of the means of sustenance, which is then followed by direct assaults of the incumbent government
No, people with allergies are just kinda
Inferior
David Gonzalez ...........no.......
Many plant life does release something when it detects damage or performs another response.
Interesting. My middle sister was *born* with nasty allergies - the only fabric that could touch her skin for a couple of years was cotton washed in Ivory Snow, otherwise she'd go bright red all over and her skin would start cracking. Unsurprisingly, she also developed a very sensitive peanut allergy (the kind that can be fatal with just the smallest amount of peanut oil in the air nearby). It's gotten better, thankfully - the whole fabric issue was gone by the time she was about 2 years old, and her peanut allergy faded (though didn't disappear) in late adolescence/early adulthood.
Interestingly, my high school biology teacher actually did her doctorate in immunology on allergic reactions. Apparently (now, this is admittedly from almost 30 years ago), our immune "memory" cells (the ones that identify harmful intruders into our systems) have long chains recording pretty much every substance we ingest/interact with. If those chains get cut somewhere, an allergy will develop - the degree of the allergy dependent on where the chain for that particular protein/substance is cut. As we age, they can get cut again, which is why allergies can change intensities or disappear. At least, that's how she explained it to us.
My mother had a shellfish allergy for about 3-5 years; it gave her migraines and made her sick. But then it vanished as quickly as it had shown up.
I like how he says it’s a bowl of death instead of just calling it poison. Much stronger message
If George Washington Carver was alive today he'd study peanut allergies..... And probably cure them.
The original nutty professor
I strongly disagree! He would be too busy trying to figure out how to get out of that box in the ground.
He's the guy who carved up George Washington
I don't think he was a doctor. He would probably be on the team trying to figure out how to genetically engineer peanuts to be hypoallergenic though. Damn...now I'm craving boiled peanuts!
SmarterEveryDay he’s the black guy that made peanut butter and like 10000 different things to do with peanuts
So I'm in the Air Force and when I was in tech school I started having really bad GI distress (aka diarrhea) after eating the yogurt or drinking the milk from the cafeteria in the morning. I thought I had just become lactose intolerant, so i started trying to live like that. One night i went out to a movie with my friends and we got ice cream (I wasnt thinking at the time) but I was fine. Long story short turns out the cafeteria just had some nasty-ass rancid dairy they were serving.
Alathlind Cratoran I too am allergic to nasty and contaminated food
High quality ice cream doesn't have a lot of lactose. Cream doesn't have much lactose.
I thought I was becoming lactose intolerant too. Then after a while I was like why is my mouth burning.
@@origamiandcats6873 neither does yogurt
My fiancé isn’t lactose intolerant but if he eats or drinks milk proteins the skin in his mouth, nose, throat, stomach and intestines literally BURN. Like snorting a ghost pepper burn! Oddly enough tho if he boils or freezes them (think ice cream or boiling milk before using it in food) and it breaks the proteins down enough that they don’t hurt (as much). Maybe you have that?
7:00 MatPat will be pleased.
Really enjoyed the Food Theory bit haha
All of this was really interesting too!
"Is this like a bowl full of death to you?"
"Well... Yes."
😂😭
I have a milk allergy and I can't count the amount of people who I've had to tell that it's different and a lot more severe than being lactose intolerant
Noah Inkrot Yeah I know the feeling, nobody I have ever met who has lactose intolerance is never serious about their lactose intolerance. They don’t seem to get that an allergy is much worse.
I completely understand. Most people who don't have allergies can't comprehend what is it like. I'm lactose intolerant and allergic. I would much rather just be lactose intolerant. I was allergic since I was little, but for a short period of time (from puberty to first pregnancy at 24) my allergy calmed down enough that I could eat milk. The only milk based food I miss is sharp cheddar. My allergy is back up to the range of annoying to scary depending upon the exposure.
Milk allergy too, so frustrating and scary how people don’t understand it at all. I honestly think it’s the most misunderstood allergy. I constantly have people saying things like oh but this is margin you’ll be fine, when it has cream in it. Or people with absolutely no allergies trying to tell me how my allergy works, like BYE! I completely stopped eating at peoples house and only eat at vegan restaurants since no milk in the building. Hang in there!
Literally two very different things, one gives you mud butt the other can kill you
I had this joke in my mind:
You're making me allergic to milk
What does milk allergy mean?
It means he's afraid of cashew
No, it doesn't.
HO HO HO Im gonna give you alot of cashew
Stop it, Patrick. You're scaring him
I used to never react to anything, but my daughter has been sensitive to dairy from the time she was a little baby. If I ate dairy, then nursed her, she got pinprick rashes on her body and she would cry all the time. She stopped having the issue when I stopped eating dairy, so for about a year I went off dairy. Then, when I had finished weaning her, I started to have serious, instant reactions to something in liquid coffee creamer, and in certain sugar free foods. The first time, i thought I had a stomach bug. Normally I drink my coffee with milk and at that time was using almond milk as a replacement.
Well I was at a Ladies retreat, and I hadn't had regular coffee creamer in so long, so I decided to try it. I had a cup of decaf with some international brand liquid creamer, and about ten minutes later I was so sick I became dehydrated. It was awful. I had never reacted to creamer that way before, and didn't even consider that it had been the cause.
I thought it was something I had eaten, since it was a group get together and there were lots of different potluck foods. Honestly, the cramps felt so horrible. It was just like food poisoning, or if you've had a baby, just like labor. It was gone within a few hours but it felt like all day, haha.
When I had another cup of coffee with liquid creamer at my parents' house about a week later, I figured it out.
The third time I was sick like that, a relative had given me a coffee from a local coffee shop chain. I drank a fair amount of it and then got sick again. Turns out it was sugar free (not something I usually eat), and for my mother in law, but our drinks had been swapped by mistake. Also was bad for her as she's a diabetic, and mine was a regular mocha. I think the artificial sweetener that's in liquid coffee creamer might be the culprit. I now react the same way to Arizona Arnold Palmer, which nowadays is only sold in "lite" where I live. It has artificial sweetener too
Now I don't use coffee creamer unless it's the simple ingredients kind made with just real sugar and half and half. Usually I just take it with milk.
I am definitely not a doctor or pathologist or whatever expert handles allergies, so this is all a guess. I suspect the hormonal change of stopping nursing, paired with beginning to drink and eat dairy products again, may have set my body off. I notice a lot of people here mentioning not being allergic to things until they reach puberty age or early adulthood, when our bodies are going through hormonal changes. While I was pregnant with her, I was stung by bees and reacted more strongly than usual. Normally I'd just get a little raised bump from a bee sting but both times I was stung on my hand and both times my forearm and fingers swelled up. I have been stung since then and react normally.
Food reactions are weird man
EDIT: I realize my issue is probably an intolerance not an allergy.
Whoa, what kind of creator did I just find??
This guy is amazing!
The production value is insane too!
i like the use of the patrick alarm at 4:17
Woahh good catch!
They started to use more whacky references lately, which is great
The MANIAC is IN THE MAILBOX
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that.
When I heard that, I immediately checked the comments lol
"Almond milk" is often made of lots of things besides almonds. It's been falsely marketed in some cases. It's a processed invented product. Might have soy, various plant gums, etc. added.
That's what I'm thinking. She could be allergic to carrageenan or quar gum or something like that .
Yes, the ingredients in the almond milk need to be known and tested
*Good point. I try to eat food as single items only, to have a better chance of knowing what I'm might be allergic too.*
I had an allergic reaction to almonds, and they were made out of almonds.
exactly. very little actual almond in almond milk--same with oat, cashew, all the milks unless you make them yourself (what I do to avoid all those gross gums and such).
Almonds are expensive and it takes lots of them to make almond milk. So yeah they're most likely adding cheaper ingredientes. But to be fair almond milk allergy is no big deal, since it tastes f*kn horrible and shouldn't be drinked by anyone. I had to drink vegetable milk for 15 days as part of a surgery recovery diet and I tried some of them until settling for oat milk, which was the least terrible one.
I had a peanut allergy since I was a kid however I started to notice reactions to grasses and got an allergy test only to learn that I was no longer allergic to peanuts.
That reaction re answers is common to every chronic condition where how, what, why are all answered "we don't know".
I don't have food allergies, but several aspects of this episode reminded my of my chronic condition.
The limits to life choices & stress of the unknown especially.
The term food allergy was one of my biggest culture shock when I moved to North America. It was unheard of back in my home country China. We have people allergic to certain antibiotics or intolerant to milk but that's nothing like food allergy.
It's strange that food allergy affects American born Chinese but not Chinese grown up in China. Allergic asthma is also extremely rare in China but can be developed among people who migrate out of China over time. I guess allergy is purely caused environmental factors, it's not something passed down in the genes.
it has a lot to do with things the parents eat before and during the pregnancy. also after birth. food in murica has at least twice the amount of sugar and fat and other "toxins" in, and those are a big factor
Same, I'm a Malaysian and our national food nasi lemak contains peanuts and eggs, there is no way you can survive there when nobody ever mentioned peanut allergy. In Asia, there is rarely any food allergy just an intolerance to alcohol and milk.. maybe that's why we eat anything ahahhaha
Right? In Mexico for example, allergies are uncommon. I've never met anyone that was allergic to certain foods until I've moved to USA.
agreed in india allergies are rare
@@aelius9907 i think it's the processed food. They eat too much of it. And American junk food has double the junk of the same product in Europe. Twice the sugar, twice the fat, twice the amount and size! And they eat a lot of that junk!
My father is allergic or intolerant to a specific sweet. He sometimes eat it because he loves it but all he gets is some skin itching and temperature and stomachache. But that's a rarely consumed food. But he isn't allergic to the ingredients of that sweet! He can eat them all day and nothing happens.
No copyright here
We only use Gif Peanut Butter
More like free advertising for Jif. Anyone can take a photo of peanut butter and use it.
Hahahahahajhahahaa🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣jajajajajajajjaaa
Gif or gif
Madeline Loyd thanks my brother
MetroInferious Gif
At 4:17 the Patrick "wee woo wee woo" was a good touch 😂
I've been allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, and bananas since I was a year old. Things like checking ingredients and asking waitstaff is so normal that I barely think about it. The rise in food allergies in the past decade or so has actually been helpful for me. Restaurants, etc are way better about labeling and taking precautions than they were when I was a kid in the 90s. I still have to deal with customer service people getting pissy at me for inconveniencing them though :/
Bold of you to assume I don't want to have my throat swell during dinner.
?
So you like the choking sensations from your expanding throat wall? Never know anyone who'd be into that sort of thing
Minh Long: That's some people's fetish. Haven't you heard the phrase "Choke me, daddy!" before?
@@sdfkjgh yes, daddy being another person, not your throat. i'd say this person has some type of sexual gratification from allergic reactions of the body, which can simulate the act of a strong daddy dominating his sexual partner with excessive kink.
i.e., yeah I get it.
Minh Long really? I’d assume they were being pretty blatantly sarcastic.
The editor went nuts in the editing hahahah Nice job, hahahahaha
Reminds me of Pewdipie's editors (Brad 1 and 2) style of editing.
I love it. best edit yet
@@andrikh4982 U mean Brad 1 and Sive 1
As a kid with what has always been described to me as a "severe allergy" to peanuts and tree nuts, I've just developed the habit of checking labels. But it really sucks when you can't go into some shops, like pastry shops (especially in France) when they all say that they "can't guarantee" stuff, or when you go to some party and just say "no" to every food, unsure if they have any nuts or have been in close contact with nuts. (side rant- going to Europe was quite scary. we had a translation card, but it was always worrying when they didn't fully understand what it meant, especially if it 'may contain' nuts. luckily I was fine though) As an introvert, it sucks to have to say that I have a "severe peanut and tree nut allergy" to every restaurant, coffee shop, or whatever other food place you go to. I also just recently learned that my parents used to get Thai food all the time, but bc of me they haven't had it in 16 years. Overall, in many ways, it sucks.
Have you ever been.. nutted on?
I developed an allergy to mustard, which I discovered by asking for honey mustard to be added to a sandwich at the deli. I hadn't had mustard for many years. I treated the symptoms with Benadryl - I got a nasty migrating full body skin rash. After it was finally gone after a couple days, my body then started to have a reaction to Benadryl - but not while the Benadryl is in my system, only after it wears off.
I'm gonna go out and eat some dirt now. Thanks Doctor (But not that kinda doctor) Joe!
Happy to help. Where do I send my bill?
Haha! I ate dirt as a kid, I'd drop food on the ground and just brush it off (God made dirt and dirt don't hurt) and my mom would defrost meats in manners not recommended by the FDA and no food allergies for me!
@@JohnDoe-zw8vx your body still had to protect you... dirt is not equal to health...
Allergy is not the same as poison... it the why body react to certain type of thing... It more a a DNA's memory... it know this thing is relative to this thing that will kill you so it react....
I let my baby eat dirt after watching a TED talk that recommended it to prevent allergies. (Also an excuse not too clean! Save my baby's life! 😏)
Eating dirt is actually extremely beneficial, as it provides bacteria and enzymes that benefit digestion. It's what you're eating from the grocery store that causes the problems!
"Why are so many people allergic to food?" DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? Most food allergies are caused by a condition known as hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). And the reason why food allergies are ever-more prevalent is because the CAUSE of hypoglycemia is ever-more prevalent: REFINED CARBOHYDRATE CONSUMPTION. "Big Money" ensures that this information stays buried, because both the food industry and medical industry make a FORTUNE off of this crap.
Want to know more?
"It's Okay To Be Smart." But intelligence without wisdom is like a boat without water; it won't take you very far. On the other hand, wisdom can take you VERY far! From the cure for cancer (and colds and flus and Covid) to the very Meaning of Life, I have it. "Click" and ye shall find!
Saying "theory" when you mean "hypothesis"😟😬 you yourself taught me that Joe!
r/wooosh
a theory and a hypothesis are different
@@victherocker he said theory as if he meant hypothesis
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it's just a theory when there is no possibility to prove it and it's a hypothesis when there is a chance to prove it. that's the different
Great video. Would have liked you to go more into talking about the different kinds of allergic reactions. I'm intolerant of mushrooms - I get severe flu symptoms. But I'm allergic to the nightshade family (tomato, potato, peppers) and I experience moderate inflammation, severe muscle tightness, skin boils and sharp joint pain....but no obvious swelling, etc so it went misdiagnosed and not correlated as an allergy for decades of my life. Ppl need to know all the possible kinds of allergic responses. It's not all hives and anaphylaxis.
I’ve had a lot of trouble with my stomach since I was a child (about 15 years of digestive trouble) and I’ve taken tests and had endoscopy’s of my stomach twice where tissue samples were taken and it all came back normal. I had diarrhea every day of my life for 15 years 8 of which I spent constantly severely nauseous and nothing helped. Then my dr said he wanted to do a liver biopsy b/c he thinks I have fatty liver and I know what that entails and I was like no not happening. So he said that I should lose some weight (I’m about 40lbs overweight) and come back for lab work in a year which is what I did. And I kid you not once I stared my diet all of my problems went away and I lost some weight. The diet I went on wasn’t some fad diet or anything. All I did was cut out pre packaged food. Everything that came in a wrapper that wasn’t 5 ingredients or less on the nutrient info got left at the store. It seriously helped, now I’ve also found out through trial and error that some foods irritate my stomach. Olives/olive oil (ate olives a ton as a kid), sugar substitutes (erythritol, stevia extract, monk fruit; omg my digestive system hates them), gluten, and dairy. I don’t have any food allergies or celiac’s disease. Hope this helps someone.
Wow erythritol wrecks my stomach too! That and monk fruit extract seem to be in every sugar free or low sugar drink these days, it sucks so much.
@@jampsonn1826 I know they are in a lot of foods now days. They are viewed as healthier than sugar by some. Personally my stomach doesn’t have any bad reaction to regular sugar (I get the organic cane sugar from Costco) and I don’t think that there is anything wrong or bad about regular sugar so long as you don’t eat to much of it on a regular basis.
I have the same problem witg sugar substitutes. I get so sick from them, especially erythritol and aspartam. I'm right now in SouthAfrica and for some reason (I guess trying to put up a "healthy facade") they sell soda bottles (1,5 litre) here that have sugar and substitutes in them (while carrying the same label as normal sugery stuff - while like Coke Zero has a diffrent colored lable. I didn't know that and drank a glass of that stuff and got so sick and tired from it. Especially Asparame is said to be dangerous for your health in bigger doses.
@@RocketJo86 I know what you mean with aspartame, OMG I can taste it instantly, makes me feel horrible.
"THAT'S JUST A THEORY-"
Matpat in the background: *don't you dare steal my catch phrase I will not hesitate to do a theory on you-*
XD
*That's just a theory*
@@SonOfAFridge_ A game(food) theory-
THAT'S JUST A THEORY
@@ooahsjak8811 film theory
4:18 you can hear Patrick ever so slightly say-
WeE woO wEe WoO wEE wOo
bruh
Lmao I caught it
Omg THANK YOU
Nice ears u got there
I think its Patrick from Spongebob
I had a teacher back when I was in elementary school who was severely allergic to milk to the point where just touching it would cause her to break out into hives. I didn’t see it myself, but apparently some random kid threw his open milk carton at her at lunch, and she had to go to the hospital.
I have no known allergies, but once woke up with a swollen face and intense body itching. Dermatology couldn't track down the cause and I've never had it since. I put it down to coming into contact with a nasty and my body did its thing to protect me. But that one experience has made me realise how terrifying having life threatening allergies must be
Oh my god I finally get to flex on you
I’m allergic to:
Shellfish
All nuts
Coconuts
Dairy
Eggs
Squid and octopi
Passion fruit
As my friend said: “God hates you.”
Edit 1:
This comment did gain some traction so i might as well add to it. I used to have allergies to fish and gluten when I was younger that I eventually grew out of. my current allergies are getting better although most still result in anaphylaxis. I do have non food allergies I.E. pollen, and animals such as Dogs cats [maybe hamsters?] (currently i own birds as pets). If you have any questions I will try and answer them in the comments below.
What do you eat?
@random friends *AIR*
Lucky I am allergic to the same things, but add dogs, cats and pollen. Include asthma and you got my life.
Ronan the Ronin yea i have the same things too I just only mentioned food allergies ps are you allergic to horses because I’m not
@@mikeoxlong8474 no thankfully I am not allergic to horses.
In 22 years of my life, I've never got a food allergies. I ate everything I wanted to
I hope I'll never have food allergies. I love foods so much, it suck when I cant eat something bcs allergies.
I'll edit it if I got some troubles.
Mine didn’t occur till I was 23👀
@@mackal1sc1ous is it food allergy? Have you eat the food before you got your allergy?
I became allergic to shellfish at 19 :c
@@uzuhany7412 LMAO YES food allergy. I was sent to the hospital and I have to carry an epipen now. I am allergic to fresh fruits and most nuts. I ate very healthy as a child. And now I cant even eat jelly with strawberry pieces. As a kid the only thing that happened was melons made me throw up that started maybe high school. Then once I turned 23 slowly it became all fruits. like no joke... severe reactions. Just recently I was at work and ate fresh broccoli, I left work to go to the nearest drug store to get benedryl. I left my keys in the ignition and left my car running. I was not thinking clearly and I didn't have my epipen. So,slowly its now becoming fresh vegetables including carrots, cilantro, onions, and garlic. IDK I doubt that would happen to you. But out of nowhere I became allergic to darn near everything!!! I have 10 brothers and sisters and I am the only 1 with this issue.
Damn you’re lucky, i cant eat 8 types of food and 2 of those are fish n chicken
Wow this made me grateful, I’ve had a tree nut allergy my whole life but I just throw up if I eat them and produce form this sounds so much worse
2 years ago, I went to Thailand for the first time. The first few days I was completely fine with the food, in fact I love the cuisine and eat alot during the trip. But then one day after I had a shrimp fried rice, just some hours later, my skin started to itch and my face got swollen. So the first time ever in my life I had an allergy, it was in a foreign land. Luckily, my friend popped me an allergy pill then I got over the night peacefully. The funny thing is, I had no idea what I had the allergic reaction to, til this day.
I think the allergic reaction was to shrimp
People who are allergic to peanuts also suffer from extreme jealousy of those who aren't. It's a condition called peanuts envy.....
I am allergic. I hate peanuts. They are overrated
For someone who's allergic to crabs, as much as possible, I don't want to see people eating crabs cause it makes me envy them. 😅
They sound crunchy and probably dry so I don't really care much about peanut butter
@@nuggetthehamster7072 Same, they are so gross. I'm not allergic.
Or, y'know the food has parasites in them and are not as sterile as we think.
In our grandparents' day (great grandparents' day if you're a millennial) some children were routinely dismissed as "sickly", and often no further explanation of their persistent poor health was sought―or wasn't available if it _was_ sought. It is now believed that many of these "sickly" children, whose siblings typically enjoyed healthy normality, were likely sufferers from one or other undiagnosed specific food allergy. A lot of them would "grow out of" their condition in mid to late childhood, but not all were so fortunate.
You know millennials are going into their 30's right? I think you meant gen z
That makes a lot of sense.
Or a food intolerance, like beans and all legumes. I'm not "allergic" to peanuts but I can't tolerate anything in the legume family, not even green beans.
In the Victorian times (into the late 1800s even) they used to mix borax into milk because it made the smell of spoiled milk go away but the bacteria of the milk going bad was making children very sick. Having diarrhea was deadly back then. Bread had alum in it to make it whiter. Adults could metabolize this stuff a bit better than a small child. They grew out of it because the food industry slowly put a stop to adultering food.
I will disagree with your dating system about great-grandparents.... Back to the 60's and 70's these deadly food allergies were rare. Peanut butter sandwiches, cookies and candy was served in school caffeterias. I am of that generation -- am no one's great-grandmother -- and deadly food allergies were known but extremely rare. We did not have worms, most of us had clean homes and indoor plumbing. We did play outside and get dirty. Maybe an interesting search would be to see a geographical distribution of deadly food allergies. Might kids growing up outdoors in rural areas have fewer deadly allergies than city kids?
Loving all of the tasteful nods and references
I have lots of intolerance and have recently developed allergies to antibiotics like Bactrim that never affected me till my mid 20s. It’s rough. I have chronic reactive nerve pain/joint inflammation and never ending trips to the bathroom as it made my IBS completely unmanageable.
If I grow allergic to mangoes, I'm going to freak out and be really sad-
My mom lovedd mangoes and then one day she became allergic to them😭
yeah it's sad
I can eat mango everyday if it's available all year long
Yeah me too
I love them
I just want to mention that for some people their allergies are severe enough that sitting next to a bowl of what they are allergic to or contact with someone who recently ate or handled the thing could be enough to be dangerous. Obviously he had checked it wasn’t going to cause harm in this particular situation but to everyone else, not only please don’t trick people into eating something they are allergic to but also don’t bring the thing into their presence at all unless you have checked how extreme their allergy is.
I have heard of people who have got sick or even died because they were kissed by someone who had eaten something they are allergic to! How scary must it be being that allergic! I’m so thankful that my allergies are not that severe!
Thanks for this message! If there's anything more horrifying than waking up on a plane while going into anaphylaxis because the people around you had been eating peanuts, I'm not sure what it is. All I know is that there was a very kind nurse on board who helped me with my Epipen, Benedryl, and got me strapped to an oxygen tank so I could breathe for the rest of the flight, instead of choking to death on my own throat from the amount of recirculated peanut oil on the air. On another occasion, my niece, (who has many of the same allergies as I do, but is much smaller), briefly stopped breathing because she had sat in a chair where the previous occupant had been eating peanuts. Her parents saved her with fast Epipen action, but it was way too close a call!
Never underestimate how bad someone's allergies might be. That lack of concern could cost their life.
My former classmate couldn't even be in the same room with nuts or she'd have a bad reaction. It happened one time because another classmate opened a pack of nuts without thinking.
Yep. My mum just went into anaphylaxis today from getting Nutella on her skin.
@@morbidmacaroni Yikes! I hope your mum's okay, and that it doesn't happen again!
(How weird is it that I can actually eat Nutella, among all my other awful food allergies? :| )
Imagine kissing a loved one and killing them. Terrible.
Wow I've always wanted to see this
Fantastic! Can you take this a step further and make a video in MCAS & Mastocytosis? People need to know about these life changing diseases.
I'm deathly allergic to eggs and yeah, I really have developed trust issues with the food industry and I really don't trust people to give me food that is not contaminated. To this day I only trust my father with food (not even mum) and I don't think trust issues are going anywhere soon. I think the psychological impact of allergies on your diet is often overlooked, and I think that allergy management systems should also include psychological training to be sceptical of food just the optimal amount so that you are not extremely paranoid about enjoying food in a safe environment. :)
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do you ever say I'm vegan to avoid eggs or is that not an option?
william njagi the problem with doing that is it’s not a preference. Lol it’s literally life or death.
@@williamnjagi3291 it doesn't help when the commercial kitchen or factory you're getting it from isn't following the allergy safety protocol you need. Also some people might not take someone seriously or be on a roll in the kitchen and forget to do the clean and change process. In addition, menu/recipe options as well as grocery items are slowly growing but when you find options that won't kill you you seriously want to throw a party. You don't know how many times I've gotten sick because of the last two and was out of commission a couple days. It happened a couple days ago to me and I'm still getting over it.
There are several other reasons but I'm sure someone else has said it elsewhere.
“This is a Leading Theory, Just a Theory”
6:18
I feel like you’ve betrayed me.
Im glad I am not the only person who caught this. This is a huge slip up from a science-minded channel, because there is a huge disconnect between the science and layperson definition of "theory" ... I don't know why he wouldn't have said hypothosis?
Brandon Kelley dude he was joking when he said that. He was making an allusion to the “Game Theory” youtube channel.
he was close to getting sued lol
And thats just a theory a GAME THEORY (Earrape)
He really should've said "hypothesis" but I guess that implies that it hasn't been tested yet which isn't true
I actually grew out of my peanut allergy. I accidentally ate a mini snickers bar and then was super confused when I wasn't breaking out on hives. Still very allergic to cashews and pistachios but only some kinds of mango. I could also do without my raw vegetable allergy but it's pretty easy to identify when a plant is raw and it's way too mild to do anything but annoy me so I don't think of it too much.
I had a pretty bad case of walnut pollen allergy that forced me to take an Allegra pill a day back when it was still a prescription. It was kind of inconvenient to be going to my university lectures and sneezing through the duration of the lecture due to my walnut pollen allergy. I then spent 2 years in Hong Kong and when I came back, my walnut pollen allergy was gone.
I remember 4 years ago when I was still in high school, there was this very ordinary Friday morning, when I started getting itchy "mosquito bites" on my arm in class. Mosquitos do tend to have a particular affinity towards me and I get bitten very often so I wasn't that surprised or concerned. But then those "bites" started appearing on my other arm, legs, chest, groin, back and my face.
I never had any allergies before in my life so I didn't know they were actually hives, instead I thought it must be some tiny mysterious bug that's biting me all over. It eventually got so bad I had to go to the school clinic, who immediately had a teacher accompany me to a nearby hospital to get allergy suppression drugs. The symptoms all cleared quickly after I took the drugs, and I was fine that afternoon.
4 years later I'm attending university 8000km from home and still haven't figured out what was the cause of that allergic reaction, nor has anything similar reappeared afterwards. I've read recently that more than half of allergy cases were in fact not traceable back to a specific source, so that kind of reassures me a bit.
I had a similar experience at home in my early teens, now an adult I have no idea what happened but I haven't really thought about it and this video made it even worse since it can happen to anyone at any age.
This happens to me a couple of times a year. The problem is that I have so many severe environmental and food allergies that even if I don't *think* I've come in contact with anything unusual that I might be reacting to, it could be a reaction to virtually anything else I've come in contact with that wouldn't even cross my mind. Meanwhile I'm seeing an allergist regularly and undergoing long-term immunotherapy to attempt to make everything I've tested positive for a little bit less potentially fatal, and still having these mystery reactions. I've come to the conclusion that sometimes, immune systems are just sadistic bastards.
It took me 3 years to realize that heat was causing me to get hives but only during the dry winter season
This has happened to me a lot
Hives are actually very common. I get them in cold weather. I also get them when I put my body through extreme workout after a very long time and produce too much heat for my body to handle. I also get pressure induced hives. Also, I am allergic to shellfish and have asthma.
All of this sounds too much but I enjoy a normal life 😅
Will Smith, irobot movie:
"sorry, i'm allergic to Bull*hit"
Doctor: "let me introduce it to you in small amounts everyday"😂
Lmao
Have you heard about poop pills maybe treat allergies
I like this one
Lmfao i havent heard about this movie in years!
This is the origin of food allergies...
it's so cool wheezywaitet was on this
This is very informative, I like to mention while an intolerance cannot kill you it can make feel terrible both physically and mentally, it depends on the person.
"just a theory" wow, I didn't expect that.
*with game theory music repeat the just a theory line* me "somehow, I did expect that though."
It's just a hypothesis! Maybe it will be a theory someday
It's just a joke! Maybe you and other 43 people will get it someday...
Search for MatPat. Might help.
Felipe Lins No search for Game Theory and Film Theory
I was going to say...he was making a big deal about stressing it's "just a theory" but I recall an episode, and I think it was Joe, talking about how strong a Theory is. You know, like gravity
Well, here's the truth; not just a hypothesis or theory: Most food allergies are caused by a condition known as hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). And the reason why food allergies are ever-more prevalent is because the CAUSE of hypoglycemia is ever-more prevalent: REFINED CARBOHYDRATE CONSUMPTION. "Big Money" ensures that this information stays buried, because both the food industry and medical industry make a FORTUNE off of this crap.
Want to know more?
"It's Okay To Be Smart." But intelligence without wisdom is like a boat without water; it won't take you very far. On the other hand, wisdom can take you VERY far! From the cure for cancer (and colds and flus and Covid) to the very Meaning of Life, I have it. "Click" and ye shall find!
Super interesting as always!
PS: the "it's nuts" comment made my night xD
I am also a burden to food allergies, I’m allergic to peanuts and tree nuts but I’m anaphylactic to sesame. Sesame was always a weird one since it’s in almost all breads so I can’t eat those.
me: i have an allergy
theory: no ur immune system is just being dramatic coz it’s bored
oh ok ill go snort some pollen 🥴
If its pollen you're allergic to, sometimes eating local honey can help
I am lactose intolerance and I love milk soo
I grew up on a farm, played in the mud... like... literally... that one mud puddle in my parents garden was heavenly and smearing that mud all over myself was so therapeutic 🤣 we had all kinds of animals and I'm still allergic to life itself. I'm not sure if that theory is right.
Peanut: I’m gonna end this man’s whole career.
Human:Self destructing in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1........💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
Growing up I would eat a lot of butter pecan ice cream and I always noticed that it made my mouth and throat feel weird. I thought it was normal so I continued to eat it. One day while I was working at my local DQ I had a turtle sundae on break and immediately my mouth and throat went to feeling raw and scratchy. I brought it up to one of my coworkers and they immediately grabbed the sundae and tossed in in the garbage screaming at me that I was clearly having an allergic reaction. Went to a doctor a week later and sure enough I'm allergic to pecans specifically. No other tree nuts cause a reaction.
I started developing an allergy to walnuts shortly after my great-grandpa died. He had a walnut tree in his garden and we used to eat fresh walnuts together in the fall and winter. Sine his death (I was about seven at that time), I have been allergic to walnuts in the first place, as well as to unroasted/ uncooked hazelnuts and almonds (once they have been thouroughly heated it's fine) and I have a cross reaction to some types of apples as well. Interestingly I have absolutly no reaction on pecans and macadamias, both of which I encountered a lot later in my life as an older teenager/ young adult. If someone would ask me where my allergy came from, I would say it's mostly of psychological origin, as it's so perfectly tied to my great-grandpas death (we were close). And it cemented the bodily reaction over some years, developing a full fledged allergy. It would even explain, why I react to walnuts pretty heavily, while I don't show any reaction to very closely related pecans and raw hazelnuts just give me mild inconvinience. And a friend, who's a MTA once told me that an alelrgy can develop suddenly, but it normally doesn't get worse over time. So my walnut allergy should not be able to kill me one day, because I never experienced an anaphylactic shock by now. I'm not sure if I trust his expertise, thou. Just stay away from walnuts. Luckily, I don't like the taste anymore, too. So I'm not even tempted to try.
Interestingly, my friend seemed to had developed an allergy to eucalyptus or menthol, when she was trying to ease her caughing caused by covid with euca-drops.
For my entire life, I have been allergic to all tree nuts to some degree. Growing up as a kid if I ate some nut by mistake it would make me a bit nauseous and maybe some hives. As a high school student I was on a trip and had baklava for the first time. I became a bit nauseous but my face started to swell. I went to the emergency room. I was treated with Benadryl in one arm and adrenaline in the other. One side was ready to pass out and the other side was ready to dance all night. The sleepy side won. The next morning I was fine. Fast forward to a few years ago after a heart attack and the heart medicine Lysinopril. I ate a quarter of a cookie that was oatmeal, cranberry, and walnut. For some reason I missed the word walnut on the label. I knew in about 20 seconds that there was a problem. I went and got some Benadryl. Normally that would have been all I need to do. But because I was on Lysinopril my reaction went off the rails. My face started to swell and a coworker called 911. I remember the EMTs bringing the gurney in to the store. I remember getting on the gurney. I remember waking up in ICU with a tracheotomy in my throat and a feeding tube up my nose about 2 weeks later. I was in the hospital for a month because of one quarter of a cookie.
OMG!
😢
Bloody hell! You better be reading those labels carefully.
Was almost expecting "Hey!! Vsauce! Micheal here.."
Yess
I came here just to read a comment like this
Oh God. I saw someone thinking the same thing at the beginning of the show.
4:19 The soundclip you guys snuck in here (not spoiling it for those of you who read comments ahead of the video) caught me completely off-guard and left me wheeze-laughing so hard I had to pause the video for a moment.
4:16 WEEWOOWEEWOO XD Omg Patrick, I can't
I used to love 4 fruits/vegetables before I randomly started reacting to them. Now I am allergic to Watermelon, Carrots, Grapes, and Bananas.
It's like my body doesn't want me to eat healthily.
In my case, i have developed an intolerance to chocolate and processed cakes and sweets. If i eat any of this, i will have all my body covered with hives for days. My body wants me to eat healthily
Maybe they are gmo
oh my dad is allergic to carrots.
Me too - I used to be able to *live* on fresh fruit! My grandparents had an orchard, and fruit was just what I ate. Then I had a weird allergic reaction to a nectarine about 20 yrs. ago. Cherries were next. And a couple more the next year. Now I'm allergic to more fruits and vegetables than I can actually eat, unless they're thoroughly cooked or processed. Since I'm also allergic to a whole load of nuts and legumes, these days I live on a lot of grains, dairy, and processed fruits & veggies; ie. canned fruits, or stewed tomatoes. And croissants from the Farmers' Market. :9
I discussed this oddity with my allergist, and her explanation was amazing: I've been cross-reacting to certain proteins in these foods that are similar to those in certain tree pollens that I'm severely allergic to, and so my body is reacting to these foods raw as if I'd just taken a great big mouthful of (for example) birch pollen. My immune system is a complete assh*le. But thoroughly cooking the foods I react to raw breaks down the offending proteins enough that they can slip past my haywire immune system, though it still kind of sucks, as I still can't handle them enough to do the cooking myself. XP
Those aren’t healthy
To think that all the mud pies I made as a kid has spared me all these allergies....
On the other hand, I did catch worms, which wasn't fun, but was easily cured.
I rather have worms than being unable to eat eggs, milk, cheese, nuts, etc. Worms can be cured, allergies not so much
Also note that if you eat or set yourself in environment with your allergens (don't do this if your allergies are life threatening) after a while your body will start to tolerate these allergens more. This is why countries with the least peanut allergies (for example) have popular snacks containing peanuts that children start eating from a very young age. I come from one of these countries, and although I have about 8 mild allergies, I never had any problem with nuts, I was even surprised to learn that so many people struggle with it when I moved to North America.
Growing up I was allergic to peaches. It was never a super bad reaction, just hives that could be controlled with Benadryl. But I’ve luckily grown out of that and can now eat peaches with no problem.
she could also be allergic to:
pesticide(s)
bits of insect that get into almost everything, and certain amounts are allowed in our processed foods
*This* is plausibly true in her case. Just knowing that some people have bad reactions to pesticides directly put on food, or as you suggest in a foreign substance that gets into the food can make someone develop food anxiety.
I know two people with allergies to specific pesticides. They learned of their allergy the hard way, by consuming fruit sprayed with pesticide which resulted in an allergy. I don't remember the details, but yes, what you're saying is true.
There's also no way to know what other kind of food the milk could've been contaminated with from the facility where it was made/packaged.
I live the allergy life of alliums - mainly onions and garlic. It sucks ‘cause it’s not one of the main allergies. If someone says, “I have a deadly allergy to peanuts”, people injure themselves removing them from the world. If I say, “I have a deadly allergy to onions,” people are like, “Mmm hmm... good luck not dying.”
Or one of the other ingredients.
@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 I can confirm this, because I spent a night in the hospital over my allergy to boric acid, a pesticide used to kill roaches. I had to endure the decontamination showers, which felt like standing under a dump truck dumping gravel on my naked body, while 2 men in protective clothing and gas masks hosed me down. Even my car had to be decontaminated by my wife. They tried to throw away my clothes including my wallet and keys! I don't recommend the experience.
I broke out into hives one time for no reason, too. Eventually, I figured out it was something I was touching, which led me to my truck (I'm a truck driver). It was winter in Minnesota. There was salt everywhere. While I'm not allergic to sodium chloride, either magnesium chloride or calcium chloride (used in colder climates because regular table salt doesn't help that much when it's -15°F out) make me break out in hives. So I ended up having to have my truck thoroughly washed.
I had the same experience with Emily! I was in a morning class and then i started itching on my legs, i couldn't see under my pants so i went to the comfort room and found hives all over my legs and I started feeling hot and dizzy. I only had coffee for breakfast but had a reaction. Sent myself to the doctor and they didn't know the reason why and how i got the reaction, they gave me antihistamine for it.
my friend claims to be allergic to hazelnuts but regularly eats nutella.. hmm
I'm supposedly allergic to almost every food imaginable, and have never had a noticeable reaction to any food. So... either food allergies can be super mild, or some people are allergic to the allergy test or something...
@@AsjJohnson127 I have many food allergies that are real, but my tests also blink allergic for foods I eat all the time that I never had a reaction to. You can have a very mild allergy thats reacts on a skin patch test but doesn't react while consuming the products, so you're right!
I mean Nutella is like
I use to eat Nutella as a kid all the time and would feel itchy afterwards, but I kept eating it because I liked it. My parents didn’t believe in allergies 😒 I thought everybody felt that way after eating Nutella. As an adult, I stopped but occasionally eat it and suffer the consequences
Your friend may just have a mild allergy to it
Eh, who needs food, u only need that to survive, not a big deal
Yeah, who needs food to survive?
I'm not hungry anyway
I need it to feel good though
who needs to survive?
@sharron needles
Hey your profile sucks
This is super cool cuz there are a surprisingly low number of scientific deep dive videos into why this crazy phenomenon exists. But there are some really interesting (albeit super annoying) allergies like, certain types of melons or specific kinds of berries or even just scents. I'd love to learn more about what makes these super specific allergies that are literally just one specific item of food and not a whole a genus of plant. I dunno, this just seems like it need like all kinds of deeper dives
Is it possible to get an allergy for food from the same company but in a different country? I used to eat subway every day in America but since I moved to Japan I had subway 2 times and both times I had the allergy symptoms... Do they use different ingredients or did I just develop an allergy as an adult?
I had a similar "mystery" allergic reaction to an apple one time. I suspect something on the apple, because it has never happened again.
Sunrae McDonald probably pesticides
Pesticide definitely
I am allergic to apples and some people still don't believe it after having this allergy for 3 years. I also am allergic to other things.
It happens to me everytime i eat an apple, without fail. My mouth swells and has a tingly sense
I'm only allergic to Fuji apples. The skin has microscopic hairs that cause a reaction. Other apples are okay.
My kid is allergic to Tree Nuts and that’s definitely a full time job! It’s so hard to teach them not to accept food from any kid, not even friends or family. And also teaching everyone around him!
A sense of sarcasm in “don’t worry evolution explains everything;)” lol
Haha love that little cameo theory reference!