Comments on: Quinoa Allergy http://www.allergy-details.com/food-allergy/quinoa-allergy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quinoa-allergy Gluten Allergy / Gluten Free Diet / Yeast Allergy / Asthma / + other Allergies Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:56:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 By: wvshinn http://www.allergy-details.com/food-allergy/quinoa-allergy/comment-page-1/#comment-147472 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:56:03 +0000 http://www.allergy-details.com/?p=3475#comment-147472 This past weekend I experienced an acute condition that scared me. I had chest tightening with some pain, difficulty with breathing and radiating pain up into the neck and back of head.

As I’m an elder RN and I expect the changes of longevity will be showing up as I get older, I have a BP cuff and assess daily. So I watched my BP which remained WNL throughout the day. Saturday and Sunday I experienced acute symptoms as described above.

Considering an allergy I realized I’d had large amount of quinoa on both days and the symptoms showed up within a few hours. So online I went and found many stories similar to mine.

The brand I used was a new one to me. And I’m wondering if crop location, preparation and packaging might be different with certain companies. This was an Ancient Harvest product. My intent is to share my story with Ancient Harvest and see if they have received similar stories.

Hope this information is helpful to others. I love quinoa. It is sad that now I have to avoid it.

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