It has happened with both canned beans and with dried beans cooked from scratch.
It did take me a while to pinpoint that it was beans. For example, we also have mushrooms with a lot of meals that also include beans. So I’ve done a bit of experimentation and I feel fairly confident (but not certain) that beans are the common denominator.
Thanks. I will do this even though I don’t want to.
I mean, the reality is that I don’t want to have to stop eating beans. Last night my partner made a truly delicious dinner with butter beans, and a roux sauce with lots of garlic served over pasta. And I want to eat it!
The beans have been prepared lots of different ways. For example, canned refried pinto beans on tortillas with cheese and salsa; dried beans cooked from scratch with water and salt (put on salad or pasta); or last night’s more elaborate meal with canned beans simmered in a fancy sauce.
And on the flip side, I definitely have an allergy to most tree nuts plus peanuts and throat tightening and itchiness on the inside (followed by vomiting 5 or 10 minutes later) is how it presents. For me it is almost immediate but I don’t see why there couldn’t be a delay. The one time I accidentally ate a cashew product my tongue also swelled some (which was scary because it was a first). I was tested at an allergy office many years ago, and confirmed it (as well as a ton of environmental allergies, yay). I am of an age where not a ton of kids had but allergies like they do now, I was the odd kid out.
Back then I was told if you are allergic to some tree nuts you can develop allergies to others, so I avoid all including the few I didn’t test positive to.
Also, for what it’s worth, peanuts are legumes, and so are beans (though the part you eat is an underground structure), so… Peanuts also have seemingly strange connections to other things too, like, many people who are allergic to peanuts are also allergic to latex. (I am not.) It’s possible some varieties have more of whatever is causing the reaction than others?
Also fun fact, standard progesterone pills are made with peanut oil so I can’t take them.
There have also been some studies/work where kids with mild peanut allergies are exposed in small incremental doses (in a controlled medical setting, listen y’all, no one go and do this) to acclimate their bodies and stop the reaction from happening (similar to allergy shots I guess) which apparently works or has worked at least some of the time? I’m not sure, I’m to old to deal with something like that or even look into it. But, maybe all is not lost?
I know I just peanut fact dumped but maybe some of it is relevant.
Yes, very relevant! Thank you (and to everyone else who has weighed in!).
I was able to get a Monday appointment with a nurse practitioner to discuss this as I expect that a referral to an allergist will be the next step. It’s a virtual appointment, and I love this technological development.
I do know someone whose child had peanut desensitization therapy, or whatever it’s called. They drove about 3 hours each way for two years for it, but it did work.
I’ll tell you I signed up for the Aflac hospital indemnity plan this year, and I’ve been trying all summer to fight through with all the paperwork to get them to pay out even though I was very definitely in the hospital in March. Not sure it’s worth it.
Are there any tips for finding good haircut pictures? Kiddo has long hair and when I search I keep getting short boy hair pictures. I can just wade through them all but I was wondering if there was a better way.
sometimes adding a celebrity’s name or ‘pixie’ ‘bob’ helps. For a while, ‘Amelie’ and ‘Natalie Portman’ were good prompts.
also, these days the boys are getting some pretty good cuts. otoh, when I was 7 I remember really hating that I was mistaken for a boy with my short shaggy hair (at one point my dad was showing my niblings some old photos, and everyone was ‘[nephew]’, and it’s like ‘no, that is [plainjane]’)
I have like 1-2 sprigs of fresh marjoram and I would hate to waste it. What should I do with it? The less cooking and the fewer ingredients, the better.
I just finished my virtual appointment regarding this issue and this is what she is guessing. She is referring me for an upper endoscopy as the next step and seems to think an allergist is a likely next step after that (depending on the findings, of course).
Does anyone know anything about prednisone and blood sugar?
Maybe my A1C will come back good but the doc said it can be dangerous even at like 5.7 (I was 5.6 last year) to take steroids but basically I have to decide for myself if the benefit is worth the risk. I should have asked more questions but I was understandably distracted.
(The steroids are to treat sudden hearing loss and they’ve already injected steroids into my middle ear.)
Steroids definitely can impact your blood sugar regulation the effect is dose dependent, but also individual physiology, but it’s pronounced and notable. Not a concern for short term use in non diabetic patients, but certainly a consideration for long term use- more so in patients with diabetes and pre diabetes. Perhaps ask about trialing your dose for a month with a CGM, or 4 times daily finger sticks (fasted, post meal x3) and see what it’s looking like? I’d personally lean CGM for convenience but also to capture overnight numbers- there can be some weirdness with cortisol increase at a few hours before time compounding the effect of the steroids causing a really high period.
Idk if that helps at all? It’s a thing. Risk/reward is always hard to evaluate on stuff like this! No one should take prednisone recreationally, lol, but it’s incredibly powerful for many conditions. but it does come with costs for sure.
Oh a couple other thoughts. Just noticed the injection line- injection at site of action is likely a lower dose and have lower systemic effects, vs oral dosing. Which would it be? Or is this an infection now then oral for maintenance?
Also, depending on your dietary flexibility, lipid profile; etc etc, you can offset some of the changes via dietary management is my understanding- steroids effect A1c via blocking insulin activity (essentially causing tissue insulin resistance), so shifting to lower and “slower” carbs can offset some of that, as does the usual approach of walks or squats after meals since that shuttles blood glucose without the use of the insulin mediated pathway.