What is a latex allergy in relation to fruit intolerance?

please can you tell me why a latex allergy would link to a fruit intolerance

Many fruits have a protein that is almost identical to the proteins in latex. So some people will be "cross reactive". The worse the latex allergy the more likely fruit allergies will develop. There are a number of possible cross reactive fruits, but the most common ones are bananas, strawberries, kiwi & avacado. For me the banana allergy was only an itchy feeling on the tongue. My allergist told me to never eat banana again because I developed latex allergy. Well I accidently got banana exposure twice since. Once where it just touched my skin and my face swelled up and I got itchy all over. Another time a friend got me ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery and apparently it came in contact with banana because I went anaphylactic.

When you start getting like this you need to talk to your dr about getting an Epi Pen and you need to carry Benedryl with you when you are away from home.

I have a mild latex allergy, but I never heard of people being fruit intolerant because of the latex allergy. Maybe it isn't related.

I couldn't believe your question when I read this because no doctors tell you this until you have a really bad allergic reation. You need to look into this on google. Last year from out of nowhere I got an anaphylactic reaction while eating a tomato, rushed to the hospital. Told them what happened and the first thing they said is oh, you have latex allergies. Which I do, they are in the same family. Yep they are. Now here is the best, didn't realize that grapes were, so five days later ate a grape and the same thing happened. That's when I went to google and researched and there it was. Certain fruits break down in the system the same way, same proteins. Since taking long term prednisone, I can now eat a tomato, or a grape. But the latex is worse than ever. So beware, at any time or place you can get crossover reactions. Look on the site below they list all the foods that you can have reactions to if you have latex allergies, the list is alot. So be careful.

check out www.allergies.about.com what you are experiencing is called Oral Allergy Syndrome