{"id":956,"date":"2009-03-03T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=956"},"modified":"2009-03-03T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:50:45","slug":"do-you-have-a-food-allergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/do-you-have-a-food-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have A Food Allergy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n

I’ve been getting hives from head to toe for 5 months. At least twice a day except for a 2 week break in November 2008.<\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to find the cause. First, I thought I was allergic to wool. I stopped wearing wool, but they continued. Then I thought it was stress from lack of sleep. I’ve been sleeping more, but they continued.<\/p>\n

Last week I started thinking it’s a food allergy. It’s probably no coincidence that the 2 pounds of peanut butter (for the protein) and 3 dozen Reese’s Valentines (not for the protein) I ate since early February have coincided with the worse round of hives.<\/p>\n

And, just in the nick of time, I found “Could You Have A Food Allergy?” on LifeScript.com<\/a> – this article was very helpful and practical. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

“Any food can cause an allergy. But eight: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (such as almonds, hazelnuts and walnuts), fish, shellfish (such as shrimp, lobster and crab), soy and wheat cause 90% of all food-related allergic reactions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I went peanut-free on March 2, 2009. And, I’m almost ready to go wheat-free, though wheat-free will be harder. If it’s a food allergy, I hope it’s peanuts and not wheat.<\/p>\n

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t been to the doctor, I had in the past. He told me the best way to find out what causes hives them is to find the unknown irritant by trial and error.<\/p>\n

However, I’m going to a new doctor on 3\/12\/09. I’ll let you how that turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subscribe I’ve been getting hives from head to toe for 5 months. At least twice a day except for a 2 week break in November 2008. I’ve been trying to find the cause. First, I thought I was allergic to wool. I stopped wearing wool, but they continued. Then I thought it was stress from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[22,122,130,154,162,238,342],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-travel-insurance-advice","tag-allergy","tag-family","tag-food-allergy","tag-health","tag-hives","tag-peanuts","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}