Getting stomach aches after eating bananas

bananas have lot of potassium so it usually leads to fast cramping and diarrhea also to much banana can lead to potassium poisoning.Dont worry u need to eat more than 10 to get this.Also im warning people don't eat over five you will have diarrhea for and hour non stop.Also the bananas can lead to constipation so after eating lots of bananas drink lots of water and excersise.

I love bananas and ate them all the time. Randomly, when i turned 16 they started goving me horrible stomach pains. i dont know why.

Can you confirm the spelling of Mucelex? There are several medicines with almost the same name. Mucelex appears to be some kind of cough medicine. Thanks.

I am not finding Mucelex to anything other than a cough syrup. Can you please confirm the spelling of Mucelex? Thank you.

Wow, I thought I was the only one, I feel like dying right now. I don't normally eat bananas but eating one with ice cream never bothered me...till now, never again. You mentioned a few things that do the same to me, avacodo & melon, but there are a few more for me, mayonnaise, eggs and oats. OWWW!

The problem with bananas started with me 34 years ago when I had my daughter. Prior to pregnanacy I never had any problems but afterward I've never been able to eat any thing with bananas.

I am 38 and also love 'd' eating bananas. About 3 years ago I started getting severe stomach pain when I would eat one. Just like you within the hour it would start and last about 3 hours. I am now having the same reaction when I eat lobster. I have eaten them all my life, growing up in a fishing family and marrying a man that is a lobster man we certainly have eaten our share. Just the past 3 times I have eaten them I am having the same painful experience. Wish I could get an answer. Like you my doctors look all confused about the banana. Sorry you are having this problem also!

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Banana was recognized as a food allergen already about 80 years ago and IgE mediated reactions have been described by several authors since the 1970s. Several cases of anaphylactic reactions to banana have been reported. Severe reactions were recently reported to have occurred in 6-month-old children, in one of the cases the first time the fruit was eaten by the child.

Allergic reactions to banana have been observed to be common in adults and children with latex hypersensitivity. The sensitivity has been ascribed to the presence of cross-reacting IgE binding allergen epitopes in the banana fruit and in the natural rubber latex of Hevea brasiliensis. Several studies have shown that IgE binding to separated banana proteins can be inhibited by latex extracts. However, it is obvious that banana allergy can also be fully independent of latex hypersensitivity. It is clear from the comparative studies that both allergen sources are heterogeneous mixtures of several allergenic proteins and that patients, as with all other allergens, produce IgE antibodies to their own individual selection of allergenic components. The correlation between measured IgE antibody concentrations to banana and latex does not identify cross-reacting allergens as the dominating allergens.

Banana has also been suspected of sharing allergens with other fruits, like avocado and kiwi, that show antigenic relations to natural rubber latex, and with melon and ragweed pollen.

Allergen specific IgE antibodies can be quantitated in serum and testing should be considered in the investigation of suspected latex allergy, in food allergy in children, and in urticaria of unknown cause.
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Wow, I thought I was the only one, I feel like dying right now. I don't normally eat bananas but eating one with ice cream never bothered me...till now, never again. You mentioned a few things that do the same to me, avacodo & melon, but there are a few more for me, mayonnaise, eggs and oats. OWWW!

Omg melon and avocados also do this to me as well. I used to be able to eat avacados with no problem I loved them. Then all of a sudden serious pain was happening after eating them. Bananas and cantelope have always done this but now it has moved on to all melons, pineapple and some berries. People think you are crazy when you say you cannot eat fruit.

I'm so sorry to hear that berries may be next, I love them & need some fruit in my diet. I too, feel that people must think I'm crazy with my lists of foods that "DON'T like me". I do know that I will never again even think about eating a banana, just like avocados & can't elope, not worth the (used to be misery) now it's pain. It really stinks that the foods that sit the best are so fattening. Take care, I hope your list of allergies doesn't continue to grow. Elaine

I'm dying right now. The pain is horrible. It must be the bananas I ate 5 hours ago. 

I experienced the same problem now that I'm older. Bananas used to be my favourite fruit when I was a child. However, things changed when I started college. Now if I dare to eat a fresh banana, it's basicaly asking for trouble. I get horrible cramps and pain in my stomach.

However, I noticed that if I eat dried bananas (in muesli) I don't experience any abdominal discomfort. The same goes for cookies that have a fresh banana as their ingredient. It's quite confusing as to why this happens. It probably has something to do with the baking/drying process banana goes through - at least that is what I think.

I discovered that I am now intolerant to bananas about 7-8 months ago. I randomly ate one by itself and an hour later I had adominal cramps that had me in a fetal position crying (worse than PMS). I just assumed it was gas until it happened again when I had one with cereal. I assumed it was the milk (my family has a history of lactose intolerance). Then I went on a juice diet for 7 days and drank green juice that has banana puree in it. Adominal cramping, vomiting and diahrehea until it was completely out of my system. Haven't had a RAW banana since. I can eat bananas as long as they are cooked. Which makes since since it's enzymes(proteins) and they are denatured with heat.

My school served green bananas and I ate one around 12:27 pm. I instantly got stomach aches and am sick to my stomach with major gas.  What the hell is happening?

blended insmoothie
but what kind of smoothie?

Thank u so much for this posting!!! for yrs i been having potasium ideficiencies and told eat a banana everyday but everytime i have dying cramps n pain. I cant believe my dumb dr didnt come to there senses there harming me. I do have a latex allergy i go into anaphylactic episodes throat closes up cant breath and rash ive had from a nurse using in 2007 a tourniquet that was made from latex. I am grateful for this post i will for now for my charliehorses now take the potasium pill if it has nothing to do with bananas or there gonna have to find soemthing else cuz im done having this pain everyday!