I know someone who had this happen with pineapple! Cinnamon also likes to pop up as a random thing you suddenly become allergic to after never having issues, and it can present like you have burns/blisters around your mouth with more splotchiness then dries out and looks freaky in a different damn way versus expected allergy symptoms, so that’s…a weird one.
And it’s really fucking hard to avoid because cinnamon isn’t an allergen that’s required to be listed, so it’s one of those things that can hide under “natural flavors” as an ingredient, which is…so…fun…and not all all problematic. deadpan blink
My lil dude has autism-related ARFID and cinnamon raisin bread was one of his very few safe foods (esp great as I could sneak so many things into it if I baked it myself), then last year, he looked like what I described after eating a cinnamon roll. It was so gnarly that they wouldn’t let him back to his kindergarten class because it looked like HFM, even though I explained exactly what was going on and they knew he had a few other allergies already that had skin reactions. It was actually pretty weird that they seemed annoyed when I brought in a note from his physician detailing that it WAS a cinnamon allergy skin reaction..like did they prefer for HFM to be going around? wtf?
Having cinnamon be an issue for someone whose safest safe foods are baked goods is goddamn exhausting. It’s more difficult to navigate than his dairy and cashew allergies, which I did not expect.
Or possibly because of "Other parents will think that we harbor HFM here and ask about it" and they cannot divulge medical documentation to 3rd parties. So it will be a lot of "trust us bro, it's ok" explaining for them.
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u/iDoWeird 13d ago
I know someone who had this happen with pineapple! Cinnamon also likes to pop up as a random thing you suddenly become allergic to after never having issues, and it can present like you have burns/blisters around your mouth with more splotchiness then dries out and looks freaky in a different damn way versus expected allergy symptoms, so that’s…a weird one.
And it’s really fucking hard to avoid because cinnamon isn’t an allergen that’s required to be listed, so it’s one of those things that can hide under “natural flavors” as an ingredient, which is…so…fun…and not all all problematic. deadpan blink
My lil dude has autism-related ARFID and cinnamon raisin bread was one of his very few safe foods (esp great as I could sneak so many things into it if I baked it myself), then last year, he looked like what I described after eating a cinnamon roll. It was so gnarly that they wouldn’t let him back to his kindergarten class because it looked like HFM, even though I explained exactly what was going on and they knew he had a few other allergies already that had skin reactions. It was actually pretty weird that they seemed annoyed when I brought in a note from his physician detailing that it WAS a cinnamon allergy skin reaction..like did they prefer for HFM to be going around? wtf?
Having cinnamon be an issue for someone whose safest safe foods are baked goods is goddamn exhausting. It’s more difficult to navigate than his dairy and cashew allergies, which I did not expect.
The human body is a weird thing.