Of Shrimp and Petroleum(roadsandkingdoms.com)
roadsandkingdoms.com
Of Shrimp and Petroleum
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2017/a-weekend-at-louisianas-oldest-harvest-festival/
6 comments
Shellfish allergies can take many years before they surface. It's possible you had a dormant allergy.
This is incredibly true. I had a friend who never had a problem with shrimp and at 27 started breaking out in hives everytime she ate shrimp.
I wouldn't rule out pollutants (or even some individualized and specific reaction that occurs once or twice based on a multitude of other factors), but while I can only confirm this anecdotally and haven't looked into any science for it, it seems to come up often enough to be more than just an environmental or individual reason.
I would really love to see any scientific reasoning for it with relation to shellfish as well as if there are any ethnic/age/gender specific factors for it to happen.
Truly sad because as a kid we'd go buy shrimp off the boat when visiting family in Louisiana and Mississippi. Never had a negative reaction then except my grandmother making clean the things, horrible work!