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> wrote in message
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>I suddenly became allergic to shellfish a few years ago. I say suddenly
>because
> all my life I could eat lobster, shrimp and crab. A lot of it in fact,
as
> I live
> in New England. Then one evening while eating shrimp, I broke out and
> ended up
> in the ER. Not knowing if it was an issolated incident, I tried shrimp
> again a
> few months later and started to break out again, although that time I
had
> Benadryl on hand and loaded up with it and the attacj was very mild and
> short
> lived. I haven't touched it since. Also, I never went to an allergist
for
> it. I
> just figured I;d stay away from shellfish. However, I can eat all the
> clams I
> want. Clam chowder, fried, steamers. No problems. I wondered if, while I
> haven't
> tried them in years, if I could also eat scallops. Aren't they in the
same
> family as clams and not lobster or shrimp? Just curious. It really
stinks
> to
> live in the Northeast and not be able to enjoy its food crop.
I don't think they are necessarily in the same family. I know with fish,
you can be allergic to one fish and not another. It's probably the same
with shellfish.
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