Only soft (ajebo) Africans have food allergies, the real (ajekpako) Africans have no food allergies.

Most people here don't know the meaning of allergy , rather they are stating foods they don't like..

My cousin brother since frm childhood eats rice, noodles and takes tea, any other food takes him to the hospitl bed

vikel2104:
Mod, may this thread find favour in thy sight. Amen.

e don find favour o. After how many months

I don't know if I have any food allergies but I only eat a select kind of food. The only thing I'm allergic to is a drug and that's quinine.
I do know a friend who is allergic to samusa. I had never eaten samusa, but the day I saw what samusa did to him, I swore that I would never eat samusa.....and it is so till this day.

The only food I am allergic to is Garlic.

Am allergic to fish

teepsee:
There are people who have, as a matter of fact I do have and my mom also has it. I know of friends who don't eat swallow, anything swallow is a no no for them

I cnt go 2days without eating swallow

teepsee:
There are people who have, as a matter of fact I do have and my mom also has it. I know of friends who don't eat swallow, anything swallow is a no no for them

I cnt go 2days without eating swallow

eleojo23:

Really? That is how someone will die from anaphylactic reactions caused by food allergy and we would just conclude that it is the will of God without even bothering to find out what caused it.

I can bet that many Africans have lost their lives due to food allergies without knowing it
Our problem is that we don't document a lot of things.

Document that will be last thing. It difficult to document when we you are eating is not even what makes you happy nor what you actually wanted, with the little change left you look for quantity that will satisfy not taking a good look at the nutritional value or danger such could do to your health.The last time i heard of allergy was in the movies.May be its a disease for the AJEBUTTERS

Firmjudge:
yea indeed I am allergic to lactose, nd me and my elder sis dont go near beans ...
chai terrible

Really? Almighty beans was my staple food during my era of 'owu' ~ days of poverty. Beans with garri, and beans with agege bread saw me through those hard times. To the question posited: As far as I know, I'm not allergic to any food.

I and my brother are allergic to goat meat and cat fish pepper soup.

Lol! I think the Op has to explain what allergy really means cause some people are just giving names of food that they do not eat. Na wao!!! ede geesi!!!

I'm allergic to fresh fish,goat and ram.i do have skin reactions on my body.

Am allergic to walnut, my lips started swelling just 15mins after eating it,was really scary.

gracile:
garri gives me sore throat

What kind of garri? Is it the socked one or the other one?
Also it might be the water you used to make it. I get sour throat if i drink tap water for too long.

Allergies kò allergies ni.

Yea I got allergies for Gala and Crayfish

muskham:
A full bred African child has no allergy.

No mind OP! Food alaji ko, food alaja ni! You don chop belleful ?

I'm allergic to crayfish, prawns& shrimps especially when it is not grinded & cooked very very very well. The kain itching in my mouth, tongue & throat eh! As if I should remove the mouth & throw away!!!

AishyWemsy:
Yes, mere smelling of honey makes me sick to my stomach, honey nauseates me big me

I also can't stand the smell of honey, it turns my stomach for hours on end.

I'm allergic to tangerines. mild tho

vikel2104:
People from other continents often come down with mild to severe allergic reactions to certain foods. Do Africans/Nigerians have such allergic reactions to foods? I don't know anyone who is allergic to any food among my relatives. In my opinion, I think it is rare. Do you have any food allergies?

I know some Nigerians allergic to see foods, some allergic to strawberry.

Yes! Am allergic to crayfish and Crab ,and little taste result to throat itching ,body reaction

Hives don deal with me small sha. Imagine turning up for work with swollen lip and eyes. Sometimes I just wish I can stay indoor when that happens. Then the manyquestions I get to answer eact time. "What happened to you" did you get in a fight?"coupled with the itching. On a night when they cover almost the whole body mehn...yes OP there are Nigerians with allergies. All types of allergies.

We technically have no food allergies,because our ancestors has already done the testings for us,which layed out the rules and foods/things that we are forbidden to eat/do.

So they replaced the word allergy with forbidden,I however think that their system is a bit wrong because everyone in a whole town can't be allergic to the same thing.

What am I even saying?am still sleepy,it's my holiday,I better go back to bed.

eleojo23:

Really? That is how someone will die from anaphylactic reactions caused by food allergy and we would just conclude that it is the will of God without even bothering to find out what caused it.

I can bet that many Africans have lost their lives due to food allergies without knowing it
Our problem is that we don't document a lot of things.

pls answer my question.. DO U HAVE ANY ALLERGY

I am lactose intolerant ie me an milk no be friend. Except all those oyibo lactose free milk. Also my pikin been react to gnut. The guy taste gnut na so him mouth swell be like kpomo wey them don soak overnight. Na puritin wey we use control the reaction oo.

me am allergic to moin mion and egusi soup whenever I eat them mehn my stomach go just dey dance!! I will purge through out that day

There's a leaf in ibo land used to cook soup..dunno d English name, it's called ugboghiri abi ugboghoho or something like dat..
The day i ate it ,lord hv mercy.. Rashes of life,turned red almost immediately,was scratching like a mad woman on d rd. Thank God for piriton sha..

yes whenever i take corn(be it boiled or roasted) in the next 3o min i must have cartargh a very bad 1

vikel2104:
People from other continents often come down with mild to severe allergic reactions to certain foods. Do Africans/Nigerians have such allergic reactions to foods? I don't know anyone who is allergic to any food among my relatives. In my opinion, I think it is rare. Do you have any food allergies?

Yeah i may v but vnt found out what rili caused the rxn.

After eating that equsi night, prepared by one of my hostel mate, na so small heat do me, i wake go buy pure water to down the stuff.. After some time my body start to they itch me, i couldn't sleep that night, to cut the long story short, i spend 5days b4 i could get myself. It was traveling from one location to another, from my upper hand down to my palm, from my thigh down to my foot, at any location it was, that part swallows and inches and rises above other part of my body. It start Thursday night up to Monday morning, On Sunday i had to be flinging my hands because my palms were itching me. That was the last phase. Well this rxn was more than the normal ones i do v, usually wen i sweat, that's the only thing i know abt it and i dear not allow water to touch me that moment cos it will cause that part to be rigid and my body swells. This started late 2012 wen i was playing football, and it only last 1hour if i find a cool place to stay, but that one that happen after eating that equsi soup was from another planet, 5 f*cking days! I tot dead was the next thing. The worst is the doctors will tell u it just a rxn, there is no medicine for it, just smth to ease the pain. Chai! See the small tiny drug sef... Well if u are a doc and u just read my long episode of body Reaction and u observe something pls let me know.. Well dis year i can sai i vnt experience it, cos i v master it and know wen its coming and i do a fast one on it by finding some where cool, take off my cloths, sleep, by 30mins it would v gone down den i can go tk my bath. Till now all i only know is wen i sweat, which is not always cause i do sweat. There must be smth else wic i neva find out what it could be, causing the RXN.

If u see me the first tym u go faint. When it happen i dashed home entered the bath room started bathing thinking the itching will go, omo i com look myself for mirror, guys i could not blive i was the person in that mirror. It was horror movie for me.. My eyes almost go shut because my face don swell lyk sai dem pump am air. Had to rub red oil all over.