sea salt allergy symptoms Posted: 03-19-08 17:01pm
If you have shellfish allergies you might
be having a reaction to sea salt.
Read this post from another forum. It's
enlightening.
"I became allergic to shellfish at age 42
after eating a good deal of it in my adult
life. Naturally I stopped eating it after
that, which left me as a vegetarian,
basically. Then I tried to eat mostly
organic foods and found that if I ate
prepared foods at health food stores or
restaurants, I would frequently have the
same reaction as though I had eaten
shellfish.
I finally determined that the culprit was
Sea Salt , and was informed by a doctor at
the Mayo Clinic that sea salt contains
"marine copolymers" (which another doctor
told me was a fancy word for the
microscopic shellfish that are contained
in sea salt). So while I admire the
properties of sea salt and all the
wonderful things it can do for many
people, I feel that those who are allergic
to shellfish should be warned that sea
salt may cause them to have allergic
reactions. (In my case, that's a huge
swelling of the glands in my neck, and
lots of pain.)
I also avoid milk, but was unable to
switch to commercially prepared soy or
rice milk, as I have found not a single
manufacturer of those milks that doesn't
include sea salt as an ingredient."
If they're using sea salt and just
labeling it salt, that's wrong. Demand
that it say "sea salt". I cannot afford
allergic reactions that make me sick for
eight hours.
