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Question by MaluLanix0x: HELP! Multiple food allergies that seem to be getting worse!? I am extremely worried and feel helpless in this situation. I am a celiac, and have to strictly avoid gluten. No excetpions. I first thought I was lactose intollerant, but then started reacting VIOLENTLY to cow’s milk (even if somebody was pouring it, I started breaking out and becoming congested). I recently tried goat’s milk, and it seemed to agree with me quite well. As of now, it makes my nose run. When spring season hit, I had the WOST seasonal allergies that I have ever had, and when summer hit, I wanted to eat delicious summer fruits. Get this, my lips itch terribly when I eat cantelope (and now I itch and break out when cutting it), raw carrots sorta bother me, WHITE potatoes, and sometimes apples and blueberries (which I realized could have been the pestisides). Last February, I went to an allergist and he skin tested me. Corn and rice came back positive, and he said that is very unlikely that I am actually allergic to them. Sure enough, I became VIOLENTLY allergic to corn (even xylotol and citric acid make me soo sick) and I became very allergic to rice (even delicious organic brown rice). I cannot eat shellfish (and even become terribly tired, itchy, and nasseaus when my mother cooks it in the house). I used to drink unsweetened soymilk, and LOVED it. It used to keep me full for HOURS, but now my throat becomes all funny and my face swells up if I eat soybeans. I am SEVERELY allergic to sesame seeds/oil, but can do okay with most nuts. I am a girl who loves food, but my mother thinks this is some kind of eating disorder and does not believe that I have food allergies. She says my dietary requests are annoying. She makes salmon and promises to use OLIVE OIL and my GLUTEN FREE tamari sauce. Often, after the fact, I see that she has used SESAME OIL and some wierd soy sauce (that contains gluten, and corn syrup). That happened last night, and I am still terribly itchy and bloated. My father, is very supportive (at least with the gluten/dairy issue), but still offers me foods that I am TERRIBLY allergic to. However, my mother refuses to take me back to an allergist, because she thinks these allergies are fake, and my father keeps saying, “you have already been tested.” I feel like I am not gonna get support for this (this includes financailly, mostly), even though the college that I am going to has a special dietary company that can make customized meals to avoid cross contamination and such (which my dad has been very supportive with). I have a sinus infection, which showed up in an MRI and am taking antibiotics. However, I have done MANY hollistic things for my allergies (thanks to Gary Null), which have helped dramatically (Vitamin C, Stinging Nettle, Essential fatty acids, Probiotics, Neti Pot). I hate comming across as a pain or a hypochondriac, and am going off to college! I am a hungry girl, and I feel like my diet is becoming more and more restricted (nonetheless at this point I am not sure exactly what I am allergic to). For a while, the allergies were getting much better, now they are getting worse! I did have autoimmune hypothyoidism (which is being treated, and responding beautifully) and I do have a mild lupus (which somewhat provides an expaination to my overacctive immune system). Does anybody have this problems with multiple food allergies and sensitivities to chemicals/perfumes? How do you deal with it (medically, socially w/o making a hugee deal about it)? How should I get help as a college student, who needs to save her money for a social life, clothes, etc?

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