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"The immune system is complicated as hell." You got that right! My wife used to eat a banana every day. Then something in her flipped and she reacts as if she
by twothamendment 3y ago
"The immune system is complicated as hell."
You got that right! My wife used to eat a banana every day. Then something in her flipped and she reacts as if she is allergic to bananas and the rest of the world - not exaggerating. She can eat a very small number of foods and has to avoid most people because of smells. It isn't allergies it is - you guessed it - her immune system.
If we could just flip it back to "normal"...
- mips_r4300i 3y agoSame thing happened to me. I was eating bananas, beef, coffee, etc. then I got some sort of viral infection. My thyroid became inflamed for a couple months. No doctor was able to find anything wrong with me. Little did I know, having postviral sequelae causes my immune system to start hating many things I used to eat. A food blood sensitive test showed that bananas, beef, coffee were what set my immune system off the most. I was told it was gut permeability causing food particles to leak into the blood stream causing the immune response. So the fix has been to stop eating those, let the gut heal, and over time I've been able to eat those foods in moderation years later.
- twothamendment 3y agoDid the smell of a banana, or just having one in the house set you off - or did you have to eat it to have a response?
- mips_r4300i 3y agoOnly eating bananas