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Ewolfie-do you have food allergies? if so what ones? i've been thinking about taking claritin on a daily basis(i have seasonal allergies too so i usually take it all the time in March).
Yesterday I was experiencing really bad stomach cramps after lunch...I haven't experienced cramps like this in a long time. Two days before my stomach was also hurting but not cramping this bad so i was trying to think what had i eaten that was the same thing. And the only thing i could think of was butternut squash that i had roasted and had for lunch on both those days. I had noticed that when i was cutting the squash prior to roasting it my hands got extremely dry and flakey...i couldn't even fully stretch my hands open otherwise they felt like they would tear!(maybe having some kind of skin allergy/irritation? i asked my mom if she ever got that from cutting butternut and she said no)i was at work and needed to get rid of these cramps ASAP before a meeting so i thought heck i'll go buy some claritin..and 20 min later after taking 1 claritin the cramps were gone! albeit my tummy was still feeling like it had been beaten up a bit. is it even possible to be allergic to butternut squash? could the claritin have been my savior here, or was it a mental thing? hmmm..

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IBS-D since 2008, female in her 20s

Edited by seattleite (10/14/10 08:26 AM)

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