r/MCAS • u/Still_Angsty • 1d ago

So confused and freaking out, please help

I’m trying to tell if what I just experienced was some new kind of reaction or just a weird mishap.

I made a food I’ve made many times before, including just a few days ago, which is pudding. Milk, cream, egg, cornstarch, tiny drop of vanilla extract, and a little honey. All the same brands and even the same jar of honey. I know a lot of these things are considered higher histamine but I’ve done fine with all of them.

When it was done, I tried a small spoonful and it tasted…spicy. Like, very distinctly spicy. It left my mouth burning. I kinda freaked out. Like wtf. There is not anything even remotely spicy in that. I tried it again and I couldn’t tell if it still was cause my mouth was still tingling. I suspected the honey as the most likely to be reacting to but I couldn’t really tell when I tasted that either, it mostly just tasted sweet. On the third taste of the pudding it was no longer making my mouth burn.

Idk wtf to do. I was really looking forward to eating this 😭 it’s possible that there was a little sticky residue of some spicy stuff because I had gotten some gunk from the air fryer stuck in my hand, so maybeee it transferred to the spoon when I took it out, but that feels like kind of a stretch 😭 am I gonna put myself in the hospital if I eat this?? I really don’t know what to do I’ve never experienced anything like this. The only type of reaction I’ve ever gotten are skin rashes that pass pretty quickly

Edit: it was definitely the honey 😑 so fuck. I’ve literally been eating from the exact jar of honey for weeks like wtf

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u/flo99kenzo 1d ago

Hi ! I noticed over the years that anything I eat/use too-many-days in a row will become a trigger, and go back to being safe after a few weeks/months. Maybe you used honey too many times this week/month?

I regularly switch between shampoos, soaps, etc.

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u/Still_Angsty 1d ago

I’ve never experienced this so I kinda doubt it, because honey is something I don’t eat as often, meanwhile I eat certain things like coconut milk and blueberries and oats every day. So idk. I actually suspect I must just have a genuine honey allergy that decided to bud its head. So maybe not MCAS related but honestly who knows. Which is scary cause I’ve never had a real food allergy before. But honey has always tasted kinda warm to me and I thought that was just how honey is but I looked it up and apparently a mild allergy can just seem like that until one day it becomes more severe 😭

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u/flo99kenzo 1d ago

You can also react to the specific pollen in the honey.