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Kiwifruit always made my mouth tingle. I thought it was just either their fur or the high acidity and was normal... Till one day I had a smoothie with kiwifruit in it and started coughing, choking and finding it hard to breathe.

Looked it up, aparently those sorts of allergies can have much worse reactions when blended in a smoothie, who knew 🤷

I confirmed it by accident when I went to finish off my toddlers smoothie that had kiwifruit and after a mouthful was like "wait a minute..." same reaction.

Good ol' Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS). Discovered it with bananas as a child, apple as a teen, and the following as a young adult: peaches, pears, apricots, kiwifruit, cherries, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, to name a few. It was weird how each fruit would effectively just flip a switch randomly during my development.

That said, cooking the fruit denatures the proteins, so eg. apple pie is great!

What?! They make my mouth tingle a little bit.. This is an allergy??

Literally me after I turned 25

It's weird, as a child I had no allergies whatsoever but I seem to be developing them as I get older. Nowadays I get the tingles from bananas and kiwifruits at least. My seasonal allergies too, I had no symptoms before turning 20-something but now they seem to get stronger every year.

Literally me at 40 for apricots.

Am I allergic to hot peppers?

A different variant of this meme is how I found I’m allergic to apples.