Skip to main content

TIFU by thinking cold foods make your throat close.

So, I’ve always loved ice cream. I ate it all the time as a kid when I was allowed to. Every Sunday, honestly starting not too long after my twin brother and I could walk, we would go swimming at the pool at our great grandmother’s house and eat ice cream afterwards. Absolutely loved it. Loved tossing blueberries she grew in her backyard in the ice cream. 10/10 would recommend, just make sure there aren't any spiders still hanging out on the blueberries.

Sometimes I was a little hesitant to eat it because it always made my throat feel super weird. My throat would feel like it was swollen or closing. It happened with the ice cream and whenever I drank cold milk or used cold milk with cereal in the morning. Or if I grabbed a slice of cheese out of the fridge for a sandwich for lunch if I didn't have time to get something else.

Man, all of these dairy products were really making my throat swell! You see the pattern, right?

Well, little child me didn’t! Little Child Hufflehugs reasoned that it was because those things were so cold! Yes, that had to be it, even though I'd consumed melted cheese on things like pizza and grilled cheese sandwiches with the same aftermath! Cold things make your throat close up and make it a little hard to breathe! But I could still breathe pretty well, and the foods that I was eating were REALLY GOOD, so I just didn’t say anything and kept consuming those things.

The problem never went away, obviously, and now I’m in my 20s. I just got an allergy test done because I suspected I was allergic to my German shepherd. When they called with my results, the nice lady on the phone asked if I ever had any issues with dairy products making my mouth or throat itch/swell. I happily told her that, no, I’ve never had any issues, which is great because I LOVE milk, cheese, ice cream, and various other dairy products. She was silent for a second before saying "uh yeah you have a pretty severe allergy to milk, but if you’re saying you've never had a reaction then I'm not entirely sure" and I assured her it was totally fine but I’d be careful and watch for anything.

That was last month. Flash forward to today, about ten minutes ago. I’m sitting at my desk, eating out of a nice little tub of vanilla ice cream to soothe the pain of university starting again. My throat feels super weird. Immediately. Like the intelligent person I am, I eat, like, a quarter of the (very small!) tub of ice cream.

And then I get the random thought, “Hey. Wait. Does this happen to everyone?” No clue why I thought about it, but it was time to investigate. And so I go to my twin brother and I’m like, “Hey, does your throat close up when you eat ice cream, too?” He tells me it definitely doesn’t do that. I ask if he’s sure, and he says that he’s 100% sure it’s never happened to him.

And then we both make the same realization at the same time—this is an allergic reaction. Only it took him TWO SECONDS to make the connection whereas it took me, I dunno, A DECADE? And then I kind of mention the allergy test and he says “If you say what I think you’re about to say I swear to god.”

HAHA. WELL. "Yeah, the allergist told me that I have a severe milk allergy and I thought the reaction was caused by the ice cream being cold" was only partially what he was expecting. He told me that I definitely should feel dumb and reminded me of a post we'd read about a person who had allergic reactions to cantaloupe and kept eating it anyway, and then reminded me of how we both said "haha yeah that would NEVER happen to us, we'd definitely realize what was happening and stop eating that food! haha."

Well, now my unfinished tub of ice cream is being consumed by my milk-allergy-less brother while I wait for my Benadryl to start working.

If you eat something and it makes your throat swell, YOU'RE PROBABLY ALLERGIC, PLEASE STOP EATING IT.

TL;DR: Since I was a kid, ice cream and milk made my throat swell. I thought it was because it was so cold and I didn't tell anyone so no one corrected me. Was told I have a severe milk allergy, thought everything was fine, continued eating ice cream. Realized I am an idiot and had to take a few Benadryl. No more ice cream for me. Pay attention to your reaction to things, and if it makes your throat swell, DON'T KEEP EATING IT.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

TIFU - Don’t do what I did

On Sunday morning Aug. 24th, I awoke to discover a large blind spot in my right eye, which turned out to be what is called wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It has resulted in a very significant, permanent loss of vision in that eye. Although I maintain good peripheral vision, whatever I focus on at best is very blurry, and mostly disappears. I can barely make out the large E at the top of the eye chart. If this happens to my left eye I’ll be unable to read or drive. It turns out that I missed the opportunity that I had to prevent this from becoming a serious problem because I failed to report what appeared to be minor changes in my vision. In the weeks prior to August I had noticed that what I knew to be straight lines appeared to my right eye to have a little waviness. I also noticed that the color of my front lawn, which I could see through the window from my recliner,  was subdued, looked almost gray, in my right eye. So I scheduled an eye exam, which revealed the p...
Post a Comment
Read more

TIFU by getting suspended for 2 days by my front office in school.

I (13M) am an African American student at Jeannette junior high who had got suspended for 2 days here. I was in math class minding my business until my teacher had told me to go to the main office, which posed no problem to me. As i went down there, the people of the front office had stopped me and made me get a new ID (yes, we have id's.) so i had asked them if i could maybe do a different alternative and call my mother to let her bring the Id here, even then, the Id isn't that important. So, although i was talking to them in a calm manner and not showing any signs of rebellion, they had threatened to call the police on me without thinking twice before calling my parents. This is where i started getting angry, and even then now the black peers agree that could have been a racially motivated action. They then told me to sit in the office conference room because of that, leading into more anger. They had then called my mother who had came over to the school didn't even let ...
Post a Comment
Read more

TIFU by putting my already skinny jeans in the dryer on high heat.

TL;DR: Was stupid and didn't realize I put my clothes on extra high heat in the dryer. Had to rock skintight skinny jeans all day with tighty whities (only clean pair I had since I procrastinate doing laundry like crazy). I guess the constant wedgies and squishing are punishment for my stupidity. Honestly don’t know who else to blame but myself for this. I’m a scatterbrained guy so I literally put the highest setting on a load with most of my clothes, and my skinny jeans that I was planning to wear today. You can probably already see where this is going, but somehow I didn’t. For context, these jeans were already pushing the limits of what could reasonably be called wearable. They fit, technically, but only in the sense that I could get them on with enough determination and a bit of strategic breathing. Sitting down in them was more of a commitment than a casual action. Still, they looked good, and I had convinced myself that discomfort was just part of the aesthetic. So this m...
Post a Comment
Read more