General Discussion

Last edited Sat Mar 28, 2026, 07:41 AM - Edit history (1)

some other ingredients in products that use wheat can cause allergies, e.g. yeast in breads, bagels, and some doughnuts. With cakes, eggs, milk, or some spices can cause allergies.

However, if you are allergic to a food, you will notice symptoms if you try eating it after an interval without it. So maybe that is what happened when you ate the cake.

I tested positive for a peanut allergy, which surprised me because I had never noticed a reaction to peanuts. But I had to avoid them after I started one of my meds because peanuts, peanut butter, and peanut oil nullify the effect of my med. After a few years of avoiding peanuts, I accidentally bit into a peanut cookie that an employee had brought to work because I mistook it for an oatmeal cookie. Immediately I started coughing, then went into a full blown asthma attack.

I wonder if it's a specific type of wheat that you are allergic to, e.g. the wheat used in breads and cakes. What about pasta, which is made with semolina and duram wheat? Or dark rye or pumpernickel bread? Most of those have some white wheat flour in them, but a few are made without it.

Interesting that there is a connection between tree pollens and reactions when you eat wheat. Some allergen effects are cumulative, meaning that, in small amounts by themselves, they are fairly harmless, but when you are exposed to another allergen, too, the immune system decides that's a bridge too far and reacts more strongly to having both exposures than to just one.

Tree pollens are a common allergy and hard to avoid in spring.