Is eating amaranth allergic?
Allergic people may.
Amaranth is a photosensitive vegetable, so some people with allergic constitution will decompose a photosensitive substance in the human body after eating amaranth by sunlight, and the skin may have allergic reactions such as purple, itching, burning and diffuse swelling, resulting in plant solar dermatitis.
Can skin allergy eat amaranth?
Can't eat.
After eating amaranth, if allergic reaction occurs to phytosolar dermatitis, it usually occurs 1-3 days after eating. The symptoms of allergic reaction are skin tightness, burning, itching or crawling sensation in exposed skin parts such as face, earlobe and back of hand, followed by diffuse swelling, firm and bright, accompanied by itching in different degrees, and blisters of different sizes may appear on individual back of hand. At the same time, patients may also have symptoms such as headache, dizziness, low fever, fatigue and loss of appetite.
How to eat amaranth allergy?
If you have allergic reaction after eating amaranth, stop eating amaranth immediately to avoid sun exposure again, seek medical treatment in time, and take medicine under the guidance of a doctor, such as oral antiallergic drugs such as chlorpheniramine, vitamin C, calcium gluconate, topical vitamin B6 ointment or zinc oxide ointment, or take other measures to relieve it.
What are the common photosensitive foods?
Vegetables: grey vegetables, lettuce, celery, fennel, amaranth, purslane, shepherd's purse, spinach, coriander, rape, mustard, black fungus.
Fruits: fig, lemon, mango, pineapple, etc.
Seafood: snails, shrimps, crabs, mussels and so on.
Photosensitive traditional Chinese medicines: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Zhuhuang, Schizonepeta, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Fructus Psoraleae, Radix Glehniae, Carthami Flos, etc.
Photosensitive western medicines: sulfa drugs, aspirin, sodium salicylate, tetracycline, librium, oral contraceptives, estrogen, etc.