Raw carrots can trigger an itchy mouth, swollen lips and a scratchy throat in people with a condition known as… Read more »
Tag: OAS
Believe Me, I Do Have Oral Allergy Syndrome
Accepting my diagnosis was easy, convincing others that I couldn’t eat raw fruits or veggies was harder.
Oral Allergy Syndrome: Why Raw Fruit Can Make the Mouth Itchy
Some must say goodbye to crisp apples. For others, it’s adieu to juicy peaches, tomatoes and melons, carrots or celery… Read more »
7 Oddest Allergies of Summer; Know the Symptoms
Every summer, millions of North Americans experience the greatest hits of the allergy world: pervasive pollens, unexpected bee stings, food… Read more »
The Scoop On: Raw vs. Cooked Fruit
Struggling with an itchy mouth? A peach may not be beyond reach.
Managing Oral Allergy Syndrome
If you have oral allergy syndrome (OAS), chances are that you also have seasonal allergies to pollen from trees such… Read more »
Oral Allergy Syndrome: The Eating Ain’t Easy
As a farm girl growing up outside of Port Colborne, Ontario in the late 1960s, summertime was the greatest. I’d… Read more »
OAS – When Raw Fruit is Forbidden
A life with OAS means only cooked or baked fruit. From this popular archived article, our writer describes how she… Read more »