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Originally Posted by senior citizen
I did know what you were saying. I have friends and neighbors with shellfish allergies. Worse case scenario , it can affect your breathing.
However, you said that in the beginning you could eat that stuff with no obvious symptoms............your symptoms came years later when eating shellfish. So, I thought perhaps you were allergic to the sulfites which are commonly used to treat shellfish.
If someone caught a fresh shellfish right out of the ocean and prepared it at home, it would not have sulfites on it. Ditto for a very busy restaurant where the lobster boats come in often to deliver their fresh shellfish.....
But for those "inland" it is not fresh.....so they treat it with sulfites which do affect those with allergies.
I know of no baked "plain fish" casserole.......but you could experiment.
The fish we had in Maine had no seafood odor at all....nor taste.
That's how fresh it was. The only thing I did not like was the deep fried calamari which my hubby ordered once as an appetizer.......a bit chewy.
My dad's mom used to always have baby octopus and squid in jars....yuck.
Breaded calamari was one of the "seven fishes" on Christmas Eve.
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It is a theory in my own mind just because we did NOT have ocean fish of any kind when I was a kid because there was no good way to transport it back in the the early 40's to Ohio. We had local fish, but I didn't eat crawdads. We grew up back then eating quite differently based on what was readily available around us. You said you hadn't anyone in the family with shellfish allergy and I was guessing it COULD be that they were given shellfish to eat early on as small children and their bodies were used to it. I had my first taste of shellfish EVER in my late twenties and I had minor itchys and swelling of lips and eyes over time and it got progressively worse until I had a very serious reaction and was warned to NOT eat it again.
I don't know why. I know that it is dangerous and MAY have to do with Idodine. I do not allow myself to have any medical tests that have iodine, just to be on the safe side. I know of someone who had died of allergic reaction to the drug injected for a kidney scan and I think it was iodine.