"cybercat" > wrote in message
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> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote
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>> You're not allergic or you'd be in the hospital You are sensitive to
>> some of the enzymes present in mangos most likely a papain-like digestive
>> enzyme.
>
> It was my impression that food allergies usually have more dramatic
> effects than that. I have heard of people whose throats completely close
> from the inflammation, so that they cannot breathe. My father had very
> strange allergies, because the foods in question *sometimes* affected him
> and sometimes did not. It may have been something he sometimes ate in
> conjunction with them, I don't know. His entire face swelled, his eyes
> swelled shut and everything.


I am not aware of benign food allergies. If you have one, they can kill
you. There are a great many food sensitivities which cause other non-lethal
reactions.

Paul