Exactly. Like the woman Lisa mentioned most likely had salt-sensitive hypertension, kidney problems, or something of the like. Maybe she knew the difference between that and an allergy and maybe she didn't, but it surely is easier to say.

Even more fun with someone like me. I have non-anaphylactoid histamine reactions to a lot of common foods. I was diagnosed as allergic by a Board-certified allergist, I test positive according to serum antibodies, systemic reaction to subcutaneous injection, AND a challenge diet. But there's some scientific dispute as to what qualifies technically as an allergy and what doesn't - some authorities contend that the type of reaction I have to foods is not a true allergy because I don't have an anaphylactic reaction (even though I have basically the exact same symptoms as the type of reaction I have to, say, ragweed pollen or alternaria spores). So there are people who are not doctors or biologists who will absolutely insist that I don't have food allergies, and want to argue with me about it.

What-ev', peeps. I don't like yeast, if that's the way someone wants to look at it. I don't like wheat or milk or corn. As long as they understand that what I don't like about all of those things is the pounding heart as soon as I eat them, the palpitations, and being congested, itchy and edematous for three or four days afterward.