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Have Pain In Chest After Eating Fish. No Medication Till Now. What Exactly Is Causing This Reaction To Fish?

I have eaten fish since I was a child with no problems, however a few years ago I ate some fish and this resulted in the feeling of a bone stuck in my throat, though I had eaten no bones. Thinking it was a case of bad fish I ate fish a week later from a different restaurant with the same result. Recently, any intake of fish, however little the portion results in severe chest pains that can last up to a day and usually prevent me from sleeping. I have no other symptoms, I am a healthy 18 year old girl weighing 110 pounds. My only other allergies are eggs and bananas which I was born with. What exactly is causing this reaction to fish? And is there medicine I can take?
posted on Fri, 26 Apr 2013
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It sounds like you do have a fish or seafood allergy. We can develop different kinds of allergies as we get older. I had a pt one time who loved seafood...never had any problems with such...one year for her bday..she went to a seafood restaurant...and had an almost fatal allergic reaction to seafood. She was saved by an epipen.

Sounds like you have some form of an allergic reaction to seafood/fish. I would try taking some benadryl and see an allergist to see what they think.
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Have Pain In Chest After Eating Fish. No Medication Till Now. What Exactly Is Causing This Reaction To Fish?

It sounds like you do have a fish or seafood allergy. We can develop different kinds of allergies as we get older. I had a pt one time who loved seafood...never had any problems with such...one year for her bday..she went to a seafood restaurant...and had an almost fatal allergic reaction to seafood. She was saved by an epipen. Sounds like you have some form of an allergic reaction to seafood/fish. I would try taking some benadryl and see an allergist to see what they think.