I solved a friend's food allergy/sensitivity issues with a smoker when medicine failed him

[SwampNut]

I have a close friend who could not eat a bunch of fruits because of the acidity.  Pineapple, tomatoes, kiwi, mango, and a number of others.  He's actually had to go to the ER due to mouth and throat damage from eating them.  Every doctor agreed on this and just said stop eating them.  This made no sense to me, particularly when finding out that he has pasta sauce and things like that with no issues.  Wait, nothing about the sauce process changes acidity THAT much.  Also ketchup is fine, and while quizzing him, I learned that anything canned or bottled (pasteurized) is fine.  And yes, I know, I said the experts were all wrong.

 

I theorized that it's the enzymes, which pineapples are particularly high on, as well as several potentially irritant proteins and protease, which mangos are high on.  Heat deactivates/denatures all of them.  He's just crazy enough to trust this crazy asshole, so I made a meal that had his irritant foods...smoked.  And by the way, I cannot in any way express with words how amazing smoked pineapple is.  There is no amount of it that I can make for Friday night neighborhood dinners which is enough.

 

Anyway, he can now eat all of them, smoked.  Most fruits are fantastic smoked, and especially pineapple.  Some barely change, which is super useful, such as tomatoes.  So I can make him a pico that seems mostly normal but doesn't destroy his mouth.

 

Last night it was Hawaiian tuna street tacos with smoked pineapple and mango.

 

[blackhawkxx]

Doctors practice medicine.   While things are often the same for different people, everyone is unique to some degree. 

[superhawk996]

Your next challenge is to cure Ashley's pork allergy.

[SwampNut]

10 hours ago, superhawk996 said:

Your next challenge is to cure Ashley's pork allergy.

 

I have been navigating around Moriah's beef and avocado allergy.  I'm pretty sure based on current experiments that the avocado issue is protein/protease also.  Beef and pork, dunno.

 

21 hours ago, blackhawkxx said:

everyone is unique to some degree. 

 

In this case, this problem is common enough to have a name and millions of people are not unique in this. Note the "underdiagnosis."

 

While the exact percentage in the whole U.S. population is difficult to confirm due to underdiagnosis, OAS likely affects 10% or more of American adults overall—and close to half (or more) of those with hay fever or related pollen allergies.

This makes OAS the most common food allergy in U.S. adults.

[OMG]

I bought a medical book on abdominal pain only to find someone had ripped out the appendix.

[SwampNut]

Lucky you, there's no way you could stomach reading that.

[SwampNut]

This is an interesting discovery that I never thought of.  Makes sense of course.