"Gloria P" > wrote in message
. ..
> cybercat wrote:
>> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote
>>
>>> 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.
>
>
> An alternate allergic reaction to food is hives or swelling
> of the lips or face. Allergic reaction increases with each
> subsequent exposure.
>
> gloria p

That's the problem people sometimes don't pay attention to their body. After
the sensitizing dose all hell can break lose.

Dimitri