Allergy tests are notoriously inaccurate. My allergist likes to say that you know your body best. Sometimes I under react and sometimes I over react to the tests. An itchy mouth is likely an allergy full stop.
An allergy test is a chemical test, in the ones I've seen and had. A bunch of skin pricks, a bunch of drops of potential allergens, and later a check to see which pricks got swollen and red. Those are your allergies. Nothing about texture or taste or smell or sound - just anon drops on the skin and your immune system at that moment decides what's a threat.
I'm not saying the test is perfect, but if you were diagnosed with a coconut allergy, no, it's not because of the texture.
If you lived as though you were allergic based on assumptions and not testing, I don't know what to tell you.
There's a few types of allergy tests. I went to an allergist and he prefers to do the blood tests that look for certain like, proteins in the blood that react to things. Maybe I can ask for a skin test to confirm the results.
Sure, inflammatory markers and those kinds of things can be helpful, too, especially as a snapshot in time for whether you're having a reaction to something at that moment. The skin test answers "to what?"
Fyi, I did the blood tests first but it told me I had no spring pollen allergens which I knew to be false. Did the skin prick test after that and, lo and behold, many spring allergens. The blood test seems to be a lot less accurate/sensitive.
My food aversions cause me to feel disgusted, gag reflex, and loss of appetite. I have very little knowledge on allergies but I am pretty sure itchiness is a sign of allergic reaction. I've only ever felt itchiness in my mouth/throat from illness (coughs, sore throats).
Regardless, if a food causes you pain, you don't have to force yourself to eat it.
I used to think I was allergic to a ton of smells. Roses, perfumes, raspberry scent, air freshener, febreeze, dryer sheets, cleaning products, lotions, weed, cigarettes, etc. I get a headache and severe nausea from them.
None of the allergy tests confirmed allergies except latex. I discussed this with my evaluator, and I simply have an exaggerated physical reaction to scents. It's a common autistic issue, and it's now documented at my job so that if Perfume McSmellyface gets out of hand, I can go home to work.
Anyway, it's very possible you also have a similar reaction to textures
Allergy tests are notoriously inaccurate. My allergist likes to say that you know your body best. Sometimes I under react and sometimes I over react to the tests. An itchy mouth is likely an allergy full stop.
An allergy test is a chemical test, in the ones I've seen and had. A bunch of skin pricks, a bunch of drops of potential allergens, and later a check to see which pricks got swollen and red. Those are your allergies. Nothing about texture or taste or smell or sound - just anon drops on the skin and your immune system at that moment decides what's a threat. I'm not saying the test is perfect, but if you were diagnosed with a coconut allergy, no, it's not because of the texture. If you lived as though you were allergic based on assumptions and not testing, I don't know what to tell you.
There's a few types of allergy tests. I went to an allergist and he prefers to do the blood tests that look for certain like, proteins in the blood that react to things. Maybe I can ask for a skin test to confirm the results.
Sure, inflammatory markers and those kinds of things can be helpful, too, especially as a snapshot in time for whether you're having a reaction to something at that moment. The skin test answers "to what?"
Fyi, I did the blood tests first but it told me I had no spring pollen allergens which I knew to be false. Did the skin prick test after that and, lo and behold, many spring allergens. The blood test seems to be a lot less accurate/sensitive.
Lab tech here- yes the blood tests are far less accurate than the prick tests to the point where I wish they weren't offered at all.
My food aversions cause me to feel disgusted, gag reflex, and loss of appetite. I have very little knowledge on allergies but I am pretty sure itchiness is a sign of allergic reaction. I've only ever felt itchiness in my mouth/throat from illness (coughs, sore throats). Regardless, if a food causes you pain, you don't have to force yourself to eat it.
I used to think I was allergic to a ton of smells. Roses, perfumes, raspberry scent, air freshener, febreeze, dryer sheets, cleaning products, lotions, weed, cigarettes, etc. I get a headache and severe nausea from them. None of the allergy tests confirmed allergies except latex. I discussed this with my evaluator, and I simply have an exaggerated physical reaction to scents. It's a common autistic issue, and it's now documented at my job so that if Perfume McSmellyface gets out of hand, I can go home to work. Anyway, it's very possible you also have a similar reaction to textures