• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Back when I first ate sushi, my mom always ordered spider rolls. I’d eat them, get an itchy mouth, but assume it was the Wasabi. Then I got braver and ordered other stuff and even with Wasabi, itch gone.

    I already knew I was allergic to shrimp and lobster, but crab had always been fine. Spider crabs and blue crabs are in fact not fine for me. Other shellfish is interesting:

    Can I eat…
    Clams? No.
    Oysters? Yes.
    Mussels? Yes.
    Scallops? Yes.
    Conch? Yes.
    Crabs? Maybe.
    Lobster? No.
    Fish? Yes.
    Shrimp? No.

    So I have a shellfish allergy that doesn’t always trigger. It always triggers with what it does trigger though.