Contact soy allergy...(long)

[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.