Vinegar Allergy!

I have been allergic to vinegar for as long as i can remember. My mouth breaks out in mouth ulcers/cankars, my tongue swells - this stays for weeks and it also causes headaches, tummy aches and lots of discomfort. If you are allergic to vinegar watch out, it is in tons of foods you wouldn't even think of and most sauces (ketchup being one of the worst offenders) . I am also finding now that Orange Juice, Tomatoes and other acidic foods can really irritate my mouth. People often don't believe you for some reason when you say you're allergic to vinegar because it isn't that common.

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I love vinegar-based products and eaten them all my life, but over the last 10 years I have developed a bad reaction to salad dressing, pickles, ketchup, bbq sauce, tomato sauce ... I have a delayed reaction of 24-48 hours from ingestion but my face becomes a bright red rash. I also have a similar reaction to spicy foods now too.

I was looking to see if there was anything on the internete for Viniger allergies. Low and behold I found this forum, and found I was right, I too am allergic to viniger. I had just bought Braggs apple cider last Friday and started taking 2 teaspoons in a glass of water twice daily for what ails me, claims are its a cure all for everything. I personally bought it for weight loss, I started out with nice pink cheeks, but not feeling too good . this is a week today, woke up with a sore red, itchy neck and upper chest and real rosy slightly swollen cheeks Yep it certainly is a allergic reation. May have unbalanced my PH/ The Apple cider viniger was the only new item I added to my diet. Thats the end of viniger for me. I really dont know what to do about it, bit have founf relief by gently cooling it off with wet cold cloths. I guess the next step is to dring a lot of water to flush it out of my kidneys, Ill nver do that again. TS Penna.

My throat swells shut when I eat vinegar. It is a new allergy and I'm hoping that it is completely associated with pregnancy. I am amazed at how many things have it and waitresses always look at me crazy when I ask about vinegar in the food. I had a peanut allergy that showed up and was this severe with my last pregnancy, but it went away about a year after she was born. Fingers crossed!

I am also allergic to Vinegar, this has been going on for 10 years now and it took me many years to narrow it down, i get hot and uncomfortable when i eat vinegar but i also get pins and needles on my tongue (the most uncomfortable thing EVER!) and the doc has said thats an allergy and my tongue is swelling - which is a big concern as this could be life threatning if i was to eat too much of it and my tongue to swell and restrict my airways. I had to go to the doctors many times and keep diaries of what i was eating until we FINALLY figured out what was causing it. So sushi does it to me, vinegar on hot chips many salad dressings etc. Atleast i know to avoid vinegar and foods containing it now, but sometimes i still manage to eat foods unaware they have vinegar and i sure know about a few mins later!

I eat salad every day, usually with Balsamic dressing. My face get's hot and sweaty for hours afterward, like I've been eating hot food. No swelling or anything, but this has been going on for years and I never put 2 and 2 together that it's the balsamic until recently. I'm so glad to find I'm not the only one.

I am sure that I also have a vinegar allergy. I've only recently diagnosed myself with it, though, and my reactions are purely gastro. When I smell vinegar, I am extremely repulsed and get nauseous. If I ingest it, I get severe stomach cramps and diarrhea. I have always known that mayonnaise made me sick to my stomach, but I didn't know that it was the vinegar in it. Certain barbeque sauces do it too. I lived in Japan for a year and could only stomach one or two pieces of sushi, but still had mild reactions. I tell people I'm allergic to vinegar and they look at me like I have two heads. I'm glad to hear that others have this as well, even if our symptoms are different.

I have always experienced severe allergy-like symptoms when consuming, however small an amount, of sulphur dioxide, which is generally used as a preservative. Thus I did not realise that this substance could be present in anything else - in any form of sulphite - such as yeast and vinegar. When I first discovered an intolerance to vinegar, a wine-maker who was present at the time immediately recognised the symptoms as the very same sulphur allergy I was aware of before. My throat and chest completely close up and I have difficulty breathing, and I experience a throbbing feeling in my throat and heat. My father suffers from the same allergy, that I have also been aware of since I can remember. A hour of so later, bright red stains appear all over my palms, although these do generally not severely itch and are not usually painful, disappearing after maksimum two days. Can anyone tell me if such an allergy is perhaps genetic and if there are others who suffer from a general intolerance to sulphite? Thank you.

I'm trying to figure what type of vinegar bothers me. I seems white. Also runny bbq sauces and the sauce at Willy's Mexican Restaurant that is on the tables in a ketchup bottle destroys my insides. Vomiting and dehidration cycle begins 4 hours later. Shivers and flashes and aches almost passing out for 6 -8 hours forced me to go the emergency room where they gave me an IV with anti nausia meds and 2 bags of fluids.... wow that helped!

I have dealt with severe reactions to vinegar and foods with vinegar for many, many years. My symptoms begin within a few hours after eating a food that has vinegar in it and I become EXTREMELY ill....headache, severe fatigue and joint pain, puffy eyes, bumps on skin, and just overall feeling horrible. I need to take supplements and drink a lot of water to get passed it. I have been diagnosed with Systemic Candida so I am wondering if that is what is setting the reaction off. This is not my recommendation to anyone to try until speaking with your doctor but this is what I typically do...Pau D' Arco, Acidophillus, Akaline Balance drops, lots and lots of water and some times lemon juice. Takes me a few days to get past it, though. Starting to wonder about the suggestions of Apple Cider Vinegar...afraid to try as I do not want it to get me sick.

When I started getting a reaction to vinegar the roof of my mouth would swell painfully. Then I started getting hot flashes, redness in the face that lasted and itchiness. I also would get a red yeast rash around my hairline and beside my nose. I use a yeast treatment cream to get rid of it. (There is alot of yeast in vinegar.) The last few times I used vinegar I had very painful abdominal cramps and was too unwell to get out of bed. It takes a couple of days for me to recover and I have mental fog and blurred eyesight. The last episode, yesterday, nearly kill me and I had to call 911 as I could hardly breathe, was vomiting, in agony and was beginning to seizure. It took about three hours until I was well again. Drinking plenty of water and then eating helped. I will never eat vinegar again. It's tough but this proved to me this is a very serious allergy that just gets worse.

I love vinegar, but soon as I smell it, I cough. Usually I'm ok in a minute and can enjoy a salad with it. Last night when I had salad with vinegar my airways closed; I was suffocating untill a tiny bit of air got to my lungs. Vinegar chokes me unless it's mild. I am 78 years old now and have been sensitive to it since my high school years. I don't know anyone as sensitive as me. If you are, let me know. Paul

I just found out the hard way last night that Iam highly allergic to white vinegar. A friend told me that to help control gas and bloating she wood take a little sip of vinegar. Well I went to the store a bought a bottle of white distilled vinegar. within a few minutes of taking a small sip of it (not even a tablespoon) the palms of my hands became intensly ichy and prickerly, I looked at them and they were blood red scared the bejeebers out of me. Then almost immediately my feet felt the same way and then it moved to my eyes, my lips swelled up, my tongue and throat swelled up to where it effected my breathing, my face and whole body was bright red and hives all over my legs, stomach and chest. It was unbelievable and happened very quickly. Ambulance was called and they inserted an IV and fed medication thru it that stopped the reactions and slowing after arriving at the hospital and they injected more medication, the symptons subsided. But the most interesting part about it all, no one believed that vinegar caused the problem...the EMS person or the doctor and nurses. I guess they never came across someone who drank straight vinegar.

After 28 years I just realized that I was allergic to vinegar also. I had a severe reaction after eating something my parents cooked for dinner not knowing that vinegar was added. My throat started to swell shut and I was terrified. I had no idea at the time what was happening and why.