Hi there,
I'm forty six and been suffering with suffering with sudden and unexpected reactions to food and drink over the last year. I get a massively racing heart, can't catch my breath and feel faint. Anti histamines help after an attack. The only previously known allergy I had was to penicillin, although in my twenties I got rashes on my chest when drinking cider. I seemed to grow out of that. However, over the last year I seemed to have become intolerant to most alcoholic drinks, but more recently even some non alcoholic drinks. A Morrison's non alcoholic cider gave me a massive reaction the other day, and so did J2O. However low alcoholic Heineken and San Miguel seem ok. Also shellfish seems to suddenly be a problem. I'm so confused as to what it is and really miss a little alcoholic drink every now and then, even though I've never been a heavy drinker. At first I thought histamine intolerance, then I thought sulphites, and now wondering if mould at all significant as apparently the citric acid in J2O is produced from mould in the fruit. Any one having similar struggles? So worried that one day I'll have something by mistake and an even more sever reaction will occur. I feel so panicky when it happens as feel I can't breath as my heart racing so much. Many thanks.
