Hello and welcome back to The Most Amazing Top 10 channel on the internet!
I am your host Miss Rebecca Jane Felgate and today we’re doing a subscriber requested
video - the Top 10 Scary Food Allergies.
This video was suggested by our subscriber Magenta FoxRose and we’re hoping to raise
a little bit more awareness as to allergies and clear labeling!
Before we get into this video, why don’t you get me know if you have any allergies?
I am allergic to dust and am sensitive to yeast so I don’t really eat bread for fear
of the bloat!
I don’t wanna be parping all day long...is that an overshare?
I guess we’ve known each other a while now !
Let me know what you are allergic to or sensitive to in the comments section down below - share
and overshare as much as you want!
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SO lets do this… we have Kiwi at number 10.
A true story - my mum almost killed one of her friends by serving a trifle at a dinner
party.
It was only after he started choking did he think to ask her if there was Kiwi in the
pudding.
There was and he had to go to hospital.
It seems Kiwi allergies are on the up and they can be very deadly, causing Anaphylactic
shock.
Kiwis can be particularly deadly to young children.
Kiwis often make up bulks of smoothies and sorbets, which means some people might not
even know they are ingredients in food.
Kiwi allergy symptoms are mouth tingling and swelling, numbness, shortness of breath, abdominal
pains, vomiting and nausea, a drop in blood pressure, a fast beating heart, loss of consciousness
and of course anaphylaxis.
Oddly it seems Kiwi allergies are linked to Birch trees.
In places with more birch trees, there are more reported kiwi allergies.
This might not kill you, but it might kill your dog at number 9
Chocolate
People have died from eating chocolate, but that is usually down to a milk allergy….
However some people are allergic to coco beans, including one of our channel editors, Dylan.
A cocoa allergy is rare...although a lot of people, including asthmatics are likely to
have a sensitivity to it.
DOGS it seems are allergic to chocolate - you’ll likely have heard eating chocolate can kill
dogs.
I suppose ALLERGIC isn’t the right word - they won’t have an allergic reaction - they
just can’t metabolize Theobromine, a component in chocolate toxic to dogs.
Small dogs are especially sensitive.
In large amounts, the theobromine poisoning can cause muscle tremors, seizures, irregular
heartbeats and internal bleeding in dogs.
How sad its that!
8 - Shell Fish Eating Shellfish has killed people and a shellfish
allergy doesn’t always present from birth, a lot of adults have suffered allergies as
they have got older.
For those with shellfish allergies they are unable to cope with the proteins found in
crustaceans and mollusks and their bodies have an abnormal response.
People with shellfish allergies can come out in hives and welts, their lips can swell,
they may have difficulty breathing, and they can go in to shock.
7 - Fugu
Okay this is cheating as Fugu, or pufferfish , can actually be poisonous to anyone, and
the deaths eating it cause are as a result of toxic attack rather than an allergic reaction…
but if we’re doing a scary food list, we gotta be chatting Fugu.
Served as a delicacy in many Japanese restaurants, often as a sashim dish, the skin of a puffer
fish and some of its organs contain an extremely poisonous toxin, called Tetro-do-toxin, that
can paralyze humans, with many cases of poisoning leading to death.
Now this is actually a horrible way to die – the poison is 1000 times more deadly than
cyanide and will at first paralyse you, while you remain awake, your respiratory system
will then shut down and you will suffocate to death.
Unfortunately there isn’t a cure.Chefs in Japan spend at least three years learning
how to prepare the dish, culminating in a test that only 1 in 3 pass.
Unfortunately, there are still errors.
In 2011, a two-Michelin-starred chef in Tokyo specializing in fugu managed to poison a diner
and had his license revoked.
I am a food lover but I would not try fugu.
Ever.
6 - Wheat Allergies and intolerances are different - plenty
of people are intolerant to wheat or gluten.
In fact it seems 20 million people in the USA alone have a gluten condition….
But there are some people who are deathly allergic.
In September 2014 a worker at a factory in Inianapolis died after being exposed to wheat
dust.
It seems he developed asthma after working at the factory and then, age 30, died of a
severe asthma attack after prolonged wheat exposure.
The company had introduced wheat and barley into its malting operations just months prior
to the incident.
5 - Dairy A lot of people have dairy intolerances and
allergies these days; it can kill.
Recently the death of a teenager who died after celebrating his birthday at popular
chain Byron in the UK made headlines.
Owen Carey ordered a skinny grilled chicken but was unaware it had butter milk in the
marinade.
A young boy died this year in the UK after eating a chocolate bar that contained milk
powder and in Toronto recently a vegan restaurant served a woman a dish that contained milk
powder, nearly leading her to death.
It seems that Vittoria Rabito informed her server at the Vegandale Brewery that she had
a dairy allergy, despite the restaurant being an animal product free location.
The staff didn’t realize that a seasoning on the pulled pork taco she ate contained
milk powder.
Rabito knew within one bite that she was in trouble.
She took her epipen and was rushed to hospital.
Another one of those maybe not an allergy but definitely don't go around eating this
things at number 4, we have lizards.
In December 2018, a man died after eating a lizard at a Christmas party in Australia.
34 year old David Dowell was a happy go lucky man who ate a gecko as a dare and had a horrendous
reaction.
Within days of eating the lizard David was was vomiting green bile and his testicles
had swollen to the size of grapefruits, with a strange liquid leaking from them.
Salmonella was blamed although it is possible he ingested a tape worm.
His girlfriend said he rotted from the inside out.
Soo…. you know……..
Please don’t go eating lizards.
3 - Sesame
Sesame allergies have majorly been in the news over the past few years since a teenage
girl died after eating a Pret Artichoke, olive and tapenade Sandwich on a flight to Nice.
She was sat next to her father as she took a bite from the sandwich she bought at Heathrow
Terminal 5 and he describes her reaction as “like an explosion”.
Her body came out in huge red welts and she started struggling to breathe.
Her epipen didnt work and she went into cardiac arrest.
He said her last words were Daddy, help me, I can't breathe'.
How awful.
Sesame seeds can be deadly those with allergies - it seems 300,000 people in the US are allergic
- making it the 9th most common food allergy in America.
The biggest food allergy is coming in to number two, and the most common killer, we have peanuts.
It seems between 1.5 to 3 percent of the Western World’s child population has a peanut allergy.
Death from peanut allergies as a result of negligence in the food industry is a sad and
repetitive tale.
There soso many stories of people dying after not realizing they have eaten something with
peanuts in, and others who are left with irreversible brain damage.
Around 200 people die in the western world of peanut allergies each year!
So rather than list a food at number one, I thought I would give you some very scary
Statistics It seems that more and more people are suffering
food allergies than ever.
The number is increasing and the rise in allergies in recent decades has been particularly noticeable
in the West.
Food allergy now affects about 7% of children in the UK and 9% of those in Australia/ Across
Europe, 2% of adults have food allergies.
there was a five-fold increase in peanut allergies in the UK between 1995 and 2016.
It is also noticed that food allergies tend to effect people who live in urban areas rather
than rural ones….
So...our urban and metropolitain lifestyles are actually increasing our risk of developing
deadly allergies!
Scientists think that the rise could be as a result of pollution...others say it is a
worldwide decrease in vitamin D, while some say that kids decreased exposure to dirt is
not allowing them to develop antibodies early on.
Whatever is happening, there is a worrying trend...which means we need to take food labelling
more seriously and know what to do if a person is suffering an allergic reaction.
Usually antihistamines in strong doses are vital!
SO do you guys suffer an allergy?
Let me know!
I guess I am also quite allergic to freshly cut grass….
But I love the smell!
Thanks again Magenta FoxRose for the video suggestion…
I think it is an important topic!
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