GF Christmas pudding reaction
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Greengoddess
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GF Christmas pudding reaction
I wonder has anyone else experienced this? Last night I ate some GF Xmas pudding from a reputable retailer. I had a shocking reaction to it, including burning in my mouth and vicious headache. it has quite a high sugar content and lots of other ingredients bar gluten. . Perhaps it was the Ben and Jerrys ice cream too. Not sure are we supposed to eat that. Usually I never touch it. Oh dear Christmas!
A burning sensation in the mouth is almost surely due to a histamine reaction, so apparently something you ate included 1 or more high histamine ingredients. Most of us are sensitive to casein (the primary protein in all dairy products), and milk is also listed as a high histamine food.
But while dairy products can cause some of us to have what an early member here described as "battery acid diarrhea", dairy products typically don't cause a burning sensation in the mouth for most of us, nor do they tend to cause a headache. A burning sensation suggests the possibility of an allergy to an ingredient, rather than an intolerance-type sensitivity, but for it to be an allergic reaction it would need to occur within approximately 10–20 minutes of the initial exposure (IOW, 10–20 after beginning eating).
Tex
But while dairy products can cause some of us to have what an early member here described as "battery acid diarrhea", dairy products typically don't cause a burning sensation in the mouth for most of us, nor do they tend to cause a headache. A burning sensation suggests the possibility of an allergy to an ingredient, rather than an intolerance-type sensitivity, but for it to be an allergic reaction it would need to occur within approximately 10–20 minutes of the initial exposure (IOW, 10–20 after beginning eating).
Tex
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Gabes-Apg
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Dried fruit is high histamine, and some puddings can have spices etc that can also be high histamine,
in line with Tex's reply, my guess is that there were a couple of ingredients that were high histamine/allergy triggers for you.
in line with Tex's reply, my guess is that there were a couple of ingredients that were high histamine/allergy triggers for you.
Gabes Ryan
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