Allergic to Chicken?

Hi and Welcome to HealingWell, Teacher!!

It sounds more like you had what is called an 'intolerance' to peanuts.  So, yes, that may be why it affected your gallbladder.  I had completely atypical symptoms with my GB and they told me it was not my gallbladder til I had it finally removed, and then they said it was diseased, not working and full of stones! lol

Usually, allergies themselves present in a completely different manner. Some people actually begin to go into what is called anaphylactic shock and could die from some of their allergies.

Thanks so much for reminding us that it can be other things as well! 

 Hugs, Teri

Thanks, firemt!! Hugs, Teri :)

Hi Jared!

 

I'm glad you 're found' us here!! :)  I'm so sorry to hear about the tuna affecting you this way!

 

Did you ever get a chance to look at the topic thread that I'd started about "Intolerance to Foods"?  I'll see if I can bump that up for you to read.

 

It's nice seeing you again - take care!

 

Hugs, Teri

I too am allergic to poltry. I hate it. My reactions to chicken/turkey are that my throat starts to close and I get a bad stomach ache. I have to either throw up or use the bathroom to feel better. I have even cooked some for our son and pulled it apart with my fingers and then touched my liops and they start to swell. I have never had to use an epi pen or do I have one. I hope to not ever have too. I have found noly one thing related to chicken that I can eat. One Thnksgiving my wife decided to make the dresing with 100% fat free chcken broth and no chicken meat. I ate all day and all of the leftovers. It was great. She has since started doing this and it works great. Hope this helps someone who like me had to give up dresing becasue of this. I also have to eat all beef hotdogs. Talk about taking away the food choices at your local ball games.

One of my adult daughters is allergic to all Poultry, Eggs, and even feathers. She has severe stomach pains & other symptoms when she eats any poultry or eggs or any prepared dish that has them in it. She was tested and confirmed her allergies, therefore, she carries an epi pen with her. I also get bad stomach pains & D when I eat poultry, however, I can eat eggs with no problem. A lot of hot dogs, plus several frozen pizza's in the supermarket have chicken as an ingredient, which surprised me, the pepperoni must be made with chicken. Like previous postings, I have a hard time ordering from a restaurant menu, after scanning over all the chicken dishes on the menu, I feel nauseus because I've been sick so many times eating chicken. I am also lactose intolerant, so thank goodness for Lactaid milk and Lactaid ice cream, although lately the 100 percent lactaid free ice cream seems to cause me grief for some reason. Also, coffee, coke, and anything else with caffeine will give me stomach pains simular to when I eat chicken, so I stay away from caffeine too. I have to read food labels on everything to make sure chicken (and milk and caffeine) are not included as an ingredient. I am thankful I ran onto this website, I'd never heard of anyone else except me and my daughter who've had an allergy to chicken. My husband is allergic to certain shell fish, and my other daughter is allergic to just orange roughy fish, they both have severe reactions, like throat closing off and hives. The person who posted about having reactions to tuna may have another allergy to just tuna. My other daughter can eat other fish, however, she can't even be in the same room where orange roughy fish is being cooked, her skin starts to tingle and itch.

WOW! Am I glad that I read this. My symptoms started about a year ago. At first I couldn't figure it out. The only time I would have a reaction was when I would eat fried chicken tenders and an egg roll at the convenience store down the road. The only symptom I had then ( and the only symptom I continue to have) is tingling in my fingers. It would happen only when I ate that combination of foods. I thought it was the egg roll, so I experimented with other egg rolls with no tingling. I decided it must be chicken. Now I get the tingling if I eat grilled chicken at home, fried chicken at the convenience store. Today I got the tingling from a turkey reuben (which is new)! It never goes beyond tingling. It seems to set in about 15 minutes after consumption, and lasts usually about 15 minutes, occasionally longer. I can eat frozen chicken tenders without symptoms. And I don't get the tingling every time I consume chicken. It seems if I don't eat chicken for a couple of weeks, I won't get the tingling. But if I eat chicken several times over a short period of time, I get the tingling and it intensifies each time it's consumed. It also has gone from tingling in my hands to tingling in my arms as well. I haven't been tested for an allergy. I thought my doctor would think I was a wack job if I walked in and told him that my arms and hands tingled whenever I ate chicken. He's an old school kind of guy and would probably laugh and say, "well, don't eat it". Easier said than done. I love chicken! Fried, grilled, slathered in sauce, you name it.

How strange? I thought I was the only person in the world with this most awful allergy...
And it has really affected my life to say the least. It all started when I was young, and to make things worse, my family raised chickens. We literally had 10s of thousands of chickens so chicken was a daily item on our family menu. It started with chest pains. Everytime I ate it, I would get the pains.. I would tell my mother, but she would just say it is in your head, thinking since we ate so much chicken that I was just being a little brat and did not want to eat it (this was 20 years ago, and my mother is a most excellent mom so it is not her fault because who ever heard of someone allergic to chicken). So this persisted until I was about 10 when I was at a water park.
My friends were eating chicken nuggets and I was hungry (being 10 I spent my daily allowance in the arcade) so I decided to share theirs.. This is when it began.. I did not get the pains, instead I went in to severe anaphylactic shock. So an ambulance rushed me to the hospital, and the doctors told my parents I almost died.. Scary, but the doctors thought I had just got stung or bit by something since it was so severe. So the very next day I eat chicken again, and bam, same thing happened.
Finally, my mother realized that all those years I was telling the truth so she felt really really bad, and still insists that she almost killed me.
Now this is where the fun began. My reactions were severe even to the smallest amount.. Every restaurant we would have to ask all the questions.. Is your food chicken-based? Do you cook this on the same grill as chicken? Are your hot dogs all beef? etc, etc, etc.. And many many times I would get the wrong answer and it would happen again.
But is seems over the years my reactions weakened so I could test out food, even chicken in the smallest amounts. So occasionally I would test to see if I was still allergic since I grew out of most of my allergies, but no, everytime I would get the tingling sensation on my lips and tongue.
And the worst problem was I had the life long dream of being a Marine sniper like my father. My whole childhood was spent shooting guns, practicing for my dream, and I was very good as well, but when I went to join I was disqualified. The biggest let down of my life. I hate chicken!!!
Nevertheless, about five years ago, I was transferred to Taiwan, where I still reside today. So I continued to test chicken, and I noticed that over here I never got the tingling sensation, and one day I got brave and ate a whole chicken leg. It was heaven, i could finally eat poultry (could always eat eggs)! I finally got to try the famed buffulo wings that I always just got teased with by the most wonderful smell.. I loved it, and still do.. BUT the first time I went back to the states, I told my mom to watch, I am going to eat chicken and it will not affect me! To my surprise, once again I went into shock right away and had to do the hospital routine again.
So now as long as I am home in Taiwain I can enjoy all the chicken I want, but back home in the states it is a killer to me.
I find this quite strange? For some reason I am allergic to American chickens, but Taiwanese chickens I have fell in love with.. I can eat to my heart's content???????

Oh my gosh.  I thought my son and I were the only people allergic to chicken, turkey and tuna.  I am still too amazed to type anything else right now.  I am going to call my parents; they will also be amazed.  I just googled it and here yall are!  I am just a little late I guess.

Hi everybody. Sorry for the very long post, most of it is about my recent trip the hospital.

I've had chicken allergy for over the past 10 years. I can eat eggs with no problems, but the last time I ate turkey I felt a little stuffed up. I learned of my chicken allergy from an allergy test about 10 years ago. It was nothing too major, I would just get a stuffy nose and feel warm when I ate chicken. I still ate chicken all I wanted up until a year ago, when chicken started sending me to the can. Last year I decided to stop eating chicken all together for 3 months. I felt much better, but caved in to a Popeye's chicken sandwich, which I think sent me into shock as I couldn't breathe well and my body was ice cold despite wrapping myself in 3 blankets. I ended up sleeping it off and woke up feeling OK with just stomach pains and trips to the can the next day.

Flash forward to today and it's been about a year since I've tasted chicken. I've tried to avoid it at all costs.

Yesterday morning I ended up going to the hospital from I suspect to be some kind of chicken ingredient that was in the food I ate. I was at a friend's house and he had some Chinese pork dumplings and cooked some up for us. My friend's mother even told me a week earlier to be careful when I eat Chinese food as sometimes they use chicken powder for flavouring, she even prepares special non-chicken dishes for me when she cooks for me.  My friend said they were pork dumplings but didn't know if his mother had used any type of chicken ingredient to flavour them up. His mother was still sleeping at the time, so we couldn't ask her. I ate one just to test it out, waited 5 minutes, felt fine then ate about 5 more.

10 minutes pass and I notice it's getting hard for me to breathe and I feel anxious and also a bit confused...uh-oh...

I try to act cool and battle it out myself for awhile, but then I started getting really cold. I was getting a little worried at this point and pondering if I should go to the hospital. Then my body starts cramping up and I notice that I'm shaking a bit. I try to turn on my MP3 player switch with my thumb but my thumb doesn't want to move for some reason. My body felt really tense and riggid. I tell myself to breathe, but it takes multiple tries to get myself to breathe or even swallow. I ask my friend to drive me to the hospital because I feel like I'm going into some type of shock and I feel bit light-headed.

After running around in what seemed like a hospital maze, we find the registration counters and I check in. I tell them my name, address and other info, but my answers are slow as I'm still a bit confused. We wait in the waiting room for about an hour and I slowly start to feel better. The symptoms come and go in waves, but I don't feel so bad anymore. I finally get to see a doctor after 2 hours and I'm feeling pretty much OK by then, my throat hurts but I can breathe, my body is warm again and I'm thinking more clearly. The doctor gave me 4 capsules of Diphenhydramine aka "Benadryl" 25mg each. I took 2 and they made me very sleepy (supposedly Diphenhydramine is used in many sleep-aids such as Nytol). I woke up 7 hours later and found moderately dark bags under my eyes when I looked in the mirror.

When I went into my kitchen for dinner today, I see a huge 1KG Costco size can of Knorr's Chicken Powder. I tell my father about my hospital trip in the early morning and ask him if he used any chicken powder in the dinner he was cooking. He assures me there's no chicken powder in any of the food. I sit there staring at my food for a few minutes, scared to eat any of it. I ended up eating my food because I was starving with 2 bathroom trips following.

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to update him on my situation and also get a referral to an allergist. I'm also going to ask for an EpiPen prescription.

If anybody feels the anaphylactic shock symptoms I wrote about above, I recommend you seek medical help immediately, as from what I've read online, it can be life-threatening.

Have you had any allergy testing done, such as the RAST test to show what foods you are allergic to?  It might be worth it for you.

Take care!

Carla

Wow, now that's scary! Yes, you do have to especially careful of restaurants. Even if they don't use a chicken product in their food, the food itself can still be prepared around chicken-y things. Btw, welcome to Healingwell :)

Gary,

Welcome to HealingWell.  I think you will enjoy our site and make a lot of new friends along the way. In no time, you will feel like you are a part of a big family.

I hear what you are saying about some restaurants.  I also have some food allergies.  I have found that restaurants are taking us a little more serious when we ask if an entrée or side item has any of things that we are allergic to.  They actually go and check.  Most of the time now, the managers will come out and talk to me and I appreciate that.  Years ago I think the servers would just tell me no, when they had no idea if the food I was ordering had MGS or soy in it.  I get a reaction from those two before I even leave the restaurant.

I think they don't want you to die in their restaurant.

Good luck to you!

Carla