I dated a woman in Boston a few times and she had a known shellfish allergy. We dined one night at a famous seafood restaurant on the waterfront and she ordered lobster. I had always thought food allergies were overblown, but not after what I saw happened to her. It didn’t take long for hives to break out and, before a couple hours had passes, she was covered with them. Fortunately, no anaphylactic shock problems, just discomfort.
That was the worst ending to a romantic night out I ever had!
Your date knew she had a seafood allergy but ordered lobster???
Never admit to dating such a ninny.
My wife of approximately 30 years is highly allergic to seafood. The problem is that restaurants typically fry fish on the same grill that they fry other foods on. Fast food places typically use the same oil to fry French fries with that they use to fry fish with. Other times ingredients like Worcestershire which contain seafood are added to foods that you wouldn't normally suspect. This morning she is still suffering from problems from eating some “fishy” tasting steak nachos that we got from Taco Bell yesterday.
Fortunately, most of the time like this morning she just ends up with swelling in various places, open sores in her mouth and welts in her nose, on her lips, face and other places. But on occasion she has severe breathing difficulties. She once had a reaction where she stopped breathing and came back to consciousness in the hospital. The people she was with presumed that she was not going to make it.
So it is definitely a major hassle and sometimes can be very scary. She loved seafood as a kid and did not start to have problems until she was a young adult. There are various reasons that an allergy like this can develop, not all are well understood. In some ways it is amazing that she has lived as long as she has.
She had a known shellfish allergy and ate lobster?
She must have REALLY wanted out of that date! /j
actress joan collins wrote....
......she always ate shrimp w/ no problem until one night a a party she ate one shrimp and had a severe allergic reaction——
......had to be rushed to the hospital.