Contact soy allergy...(long)

[Roadtrip]

Starbucks is now selling the reusable frap cups now. I found them over the summer, but noticed they're back I'm stores with the Christmas display.

I'd second the testing to see what exactly it was your having a reaction to, so you can steer clear. At this point your really guessing, even if it is an educated guess, a guess is still a guess.

Shannon

[malkin]

Maybe something in the packaging? It could be the soy milk container rather than the contents and whatever it is could also be in the disposable cups.

[OakLeaf]

Yeah, if tofu doesn't give you any trouble, it can't be the soy.

Are you talking about commercial soy milk or homemade? The packaged stuff has all kinds of additives - not necessarily anything bad per se, but ingredients you could be sensitive to. Do you react the same to all brands?

[Owlie]

I have a similar issue with peanuts, actually. I can't eat raw peanuts, under-roasted ones or "natural" peanut butter without having some discomfort (but nothing like this!) Sufficiently roasted peanuts or Jif I have no problems with. (You can all hang me now for eating Jif.)

The only soy milk-based drink I've had was the Bolthouse Farms vanilla chai stuff, and I've stayed away from drinking soy milk since then--again, that was the only thing I could think of. I don't know what brand Starbucks uses--I want to say Silk, but I don't know for sure.

Malkin--that was my mom's initial suspicion, but since it doesn't happen every time I get cold drinks, and the last time it happened I used my own cup, it's unlikely.

[Owlie]

I went on a short, cold ride with DBF today. I got back in the nice, warm car and my fingers swelled up. So it's a reaction to getting cold. Makes sense, as the first two times it happened, I got cold drinks, and the third time, I was wearing fingerless gloves and carrying two very cold metal travel mugs, and my fingers swelled up once I got inside the apartment.

Sigh. Now I just need to figure out why my fingers are swelling up in the cold.