Anyone Else Allergic to Honeydew Melon?

Yes, honeydew is one of my allergies. It's related to ragweed. You might be interested to know that during ragweed season you should probably stay away from lettuce, eggplant and spinach since they're related to ragweed too, and you might notice your mouth tingling when you eat them.

I have to be careful with foods with seeds to begin with, and foods with pits. They're high on my allergy and sensitivity list if they're easily digestible, and if they're seedy I have to avoid them because of diverticulosis.

If you have nut allergies it's not uncommon to also have melon allergies and seed allergies.

Kiwi makes my mouth tingle and my lips swell a little but I eat it occasionally anyway...and I need an epinephrine shot if I get stung by a bee & then I have to take huge horse pills (of what I have no idea..haven't been stung by a bee since the 8th grade---knock on some wood) for about a week after.

Allergies are lame! I have been getting hives off and on for the last 3 years...my feet and hands swell up pretty badly actually...but I still have yet to determine what is causing them and I am too cheap to pay for the allergy testing blood work that all my kids have had! Dum!

I am 35 and for YEARS when the subject of allergies came up I always said I didn't have any..it wasn't until after I had my kids and had to fill out all the school/sports/medical papers that it dawned on me, that yes, I am indeed allergic to a couple things. Dum!

Yes, I have birch tree pollen allergies. It includes all sorts of foods. Tree nuts, melons, tomatoes, berries, etc...do some research and have some Benadryl in the little vials in your purse all the time.

It is supposedly just an oral allergy and once the food is out of the mouth it should not cause a system wide reaction...but I am not sure I take that for granted. I make sure I always have an allergy med with me.

I think I have a mild allergy to cantaloupe. I just get kind of itchy. I've also recently developed an allergy to red wine, which is a big fat bummer. My sister is allergic to stone fruit, which are basically fruit that have pits (cherries, apricots, peaches, plums). I've never heard of anyone else having this allergy, but basically her lips swell up pretty badly when she eats them. She also developed a shellfish allergy as an adult.

Sounds like oral allergy syndrome. It isn't an actual food allergy. More of a cross reaction to a pollen allergy. My husband has this. His mouth gets itchy when he eats pretty much any type of fruit.

My daughter breaks out in hives when she has pomegranate.

I have an anaphylactic response to cherries.

i have honey dew too, and a lot of other things. (melons, citrus, nuts, avocado, carrots, tomatoes, apples, berries) It's oral food allergy. I have severe plant/pollen allergies, which were mild as a kid and worsened until the oral food allergy developed around 30. i always thought i would outgrow my allergies so that they got WAY worse was a huge bummer!

My weirdest allegy is the newspaper and i have had that one since i was little!

FYI, in case yours get worse...I get shots and it has helped so much, i can eat most fresh healthy foods now and take very little medicine. If yours is only one or a few things that is probably not worth it tho.

If you love Honeydew Melon and want to eat it go to www.naet.com and read about how it helps people with allergies and they also have a list of doctors who do it. It is non-invasive and "fun"

N.