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Tongue pain and food allergies?
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Tongue pain and food allergies?
by Vwjump, Feb 16, 2007 12:00AM
I recently noticed a connection between some odd tongue pain and eating wheat. This has happened, maybe 12 times or so. It feels like my tongue cramps on each side (haha). It feels like there are two nerves, muscles or something down the left and right side of my tongue and it stings (especially as my tongue reaches my throat) and makes it hard to move my tongue as well. It doesn't itch or swell from what I can tell. It's certainly nothing like my anaphylactic reactions. It usually goes away in about 20 mins, but it scares me - my more severe food allergies developed over time so I am nervous.
I have some odd food allergies. I am allegedly allergic to lots of foods - chicken, tuna, shrimp, wheat, cashews, almonds, grapes, cantaloupe, and on and on and all weird things (determined via blood test), but I often don't notice any symptoms so I don't completely avoid all of them (like wheat). I have exercise induced anaphylaxis when I eat some of those foods (we know chicken for sure from a treadmill/allergy test). Until recently I never had any allergy issues unless I ate those foods and then ran. But, now they think I have had tertiary allergic reactions (??) that resulted in multiple kidney infections (I never had a UTI so it was confusing).
Woo, the point is - could this odd tongue feeling be an allergic reaction? I really thought that I had no consequences from eating wheat, but perhaps I do and it would explain my recurrent kidney issues. I am stubborn (and perhaps stupid) and I have refused to exclude wheat from my diet.
I have some odd food allergies. I am allegedly allergic to lots of foods - chicken, tuna, shrimp, wheat, cashews, almonds, grapes, cantaloupe, and on and on and all weird things (determined via blood test), but I often don't notice any symptoms so I don't completely avoid all of them (like wheat). I have exercise induced anaphylaxis when I eat some of those foods (we know chicken for sure from a treadmill/allergy test). Until recently I never had any allergy issues unless I ate those foods and then ran. But, now they think I have had tertiary allergic reactions (??) that resulted in multiple kidney infections (I never had a UTI so it was confusing).
Woo, the point is - could this odd tongue feeling be an allergic reaction? I really thought that I had no consequences from eating wheat, but perhaps I do and it would explain my recurrent kidney issues. I am stubborn (and perhaps stupid) and I have refused to exclude wheat from my diet.
Doctor's Answer
by National Jewish, Feb 22, 2007 12:00AM
, Feb 22, 2007 12:00AM
It is not clear to which items you are really allergic or not from what you have described. If, indeed, you are allergic to certain foods and have a variety of symptoms from eating them, it is possible that this is a minor clinical reaction. I would carefully document the foods that cause the problem and see if it is reproducible. If this is causing you more than 'odd tongue pain', you may want to discuss all of these problems with a Board Certified Allergist.
