I'm allergic to ragweed. I'm at a new allergist office, during ragweed season the nurse casually said "So no melon, banana or cucumber." That was the first time I had ever heard this. Turns out they have the same proteins as ragweed. Ragweed season should be over but I'm still seeing reaction when I had some melon last week.

yes its bloody difficult. 'healthy' just has to mean something different to people with restrictive diets.

I believe this is much like Eosiinophelia. My son suffer with this, he has a problem with lipids fats and protein found in beef

Aw, heck. I'm allergic to ragweed, as well. I learned the hard way chamomile tea is closely related to ragweed. I gave my big bag of chamomile away.

That is also 1 of my allergys