Woman fled America because of allergies: This is how foreign diets affected her body

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ut of all the imaginable reasons one would be forced to leave America, a woman revealed that her allergies were hers. However, her body saw shocking changes once she moved abroad.For three years, Bee, who uses the diminutive moniker online, had suffered numerous instances of anaphylaxis, hives and stomach aches triggered by the kind of food Americans love, such as cheese, wheat breads and even fresh produce.“I didn’t want to leave behind my entire life in the US, but I didn’t feel like I had a choice,” she said of moving to Europe in November 2024, per Newsweek. “I had to, I felt like my body was slowly shutting down from lack of nutrition because my diet was so limited.”

Her diet consists of three foods: broccoli, coconut and chicken.“Welcome to my series where I test foods that normally give me … histamine reactions in America outside of America to see if I get the same reaction,” she told viewers of her TikTok page, where she documents the changes in her diet and body. She added how she was bracing for the worst after consuming one of her trigger foods in another country, but surprisingly, the reaction never came.

Thus, she began a quest of trying every food that used to make her sick and allergic in the US, such as pizza, French fries and pasta.The woman revealed that she was suffering from mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), an allergy-adjacent condition that can develop out of the blue.MCAS is a condition in which toxins or pathogens cause the immune cells to over-produce chemicals to combat the invader, leading to symptoms such as itching, flushing, hives, abdominal pain, diarrhea, low blood pressure, dizziness and brain fog.Bee's MCAS were triggered from food-based mycotoxins, which she confirmed with a battery of medical tests.In a recent video, she tried eating breaded shrimp at a Thai restaurant. The video received nearly 2.1 million views on TikTok, including that of TikTok's famous allergist, Dr. Rubin.In a post with Bee, he warned people against trying new food without medical supervision. “You should not be going to another country to try foods if you were prescribed epinephrine because food allergies can be potentially life-threatening.”