Anyone allergic to coffee?

blackbird

Have you had any customers or come across people that are normally non coffee drinkers that try coffee and feel they are are allergic to it and if so what symptoms have they spoken of? e.g Headaches, stomach pains etc? 🙂

askthecoffeeguy

I tend to develop the symptoms of an allergic reaction if I dont get enough coffee, or worse, an inferior one - these include blurred vision, nausea, stomach cramps and headache - this generally subsides upon consuming a quality double espresso...

UNM

refer to post 1 above. I developed an intolerance (often termed allergy) to bovine excreta about allergies while living in the USA. whenever I detect such BS, I come over all stroppy and venting is the only solution. :pan Many colleagues complained about 'allergies'. When they actually meant intolerances. It is quite possible that some people are allergic to substances within coffee, many more are likely to have a food intolerance. Allergies are manifested by an immune system response, intolerances are usually localized such as stomach not coping with acidity, caffeine causing headaches or raised heart rate. if someone came out in a rash, or suffered sudden inability to breathe a few minutes after drinking coffee, that would be a strong indication of an allergic reaction and the first thing would be to check if they had added milk (could be a permeate allergy :stir🙂. wrt post 2: those are symptoms of dependency/withdrawal. maybe you are a junkie

Brett_H

UNM wrote:

refer to post 1 above. I developed an intolerance (often termed allergy) to bovine excreta about allergies while living in the USA. whenever I detect such BS, I come over all stroppy and venting is the only solution. :pan: Many colleagues complained about 'allergies'. When they actually meant intolerances. It is quite possible that some people are allergic to substances within coffee, many more are likely to have a food intolerance. Allergies are manifested by an immune system response, intolerances are usually localized such as stomach not coping with acidity, caffeine causing headaches or raised heart rate. if someone came out in a rash, or suffered sudden inability to breathe a few minutes after drinking coffee, that would be a strong indication of an allergic reaction and the first thing would be to check if they had added milk (could be a permeate allergy :stir🙂.

Well put mate. I have a lose friend who will only drink coffee when she visits our place. I make her a tight double ristretto flat white and her tummy doesn't complain. I am often hearing from people that strong coffee upsets them but I wonder whether quality coffee made well could be the answer?

askthecoffeeguy

Personally I'm allergic to rancid foods which thankfully seldom comes into play in the coffee arena - but when it does the resut is fairly instantaneous - I tend to automatically eject any rancid food I consume which has occasionally played out in the public arena to much amusement Stale coffee definitely leaves me feeling decidedly unwell and I'm unable to have more than a mouthful without experiencing headache and mild stomach cramps Thankfully I very seldom put myself in a position where this is likely to happen, and on the odd occasion where I have tried coffee that I know to be over roasted and out of date, it's been more for familiarising my own palate to the flavours / taste sensations associated with this experience than any dire need it consume said product I did develop an intolerance to a commercial milk product that we served at my cafe at Melbourne Uni, though, which meant that I became a soy drinker for a year Since I've been drinking unhomoginesd milk, however, I've had no such problems

Muscles

My dads GF had head spins, fever and promptly began spewing after receiving one of my standard double FW's. But she rarely has coffee in her diet. Rest of us were fine so she must be intolerant :🙂

FreshCoffee2

UNM wrote:

........I developed an intolerance (often termed allergy) to bovine excreta.......whenever I detect such BS, I come over all stroppy.....

Hahahahaha....that's usually my line 😉 good one! Blokes, I find it hard to believe that a "good" coffee will be perfectly ok for some, while anyones opinion of a bad or badly made coffee will give the same people unpleasant symptoms. Its all coffee, whether it is good or bad, the substances that will affect people in whatever way are still there one way or the other or in one concentration or other. No?

Dry_bean

Fresh Coffee wrote:

Blokes, I find it hard to believe that a "good" coffee will be perfectly ok for some, while a bad or badly made coffee will give the same people whatever symptoms. Its all coffee, whether it is good or bad, the substances that will affect people in whatever way are still there one way or the other. No?

I suspect a lot of confusion arises from lack of understanding of terminology, an allergy is a diagnosed medical condition. Dislike, cant handle, hate, cant stomach, disagrees with me and lots of others describe how a person feels about a particular food or beverage and has nothing to do with allergies. My feeling is that a large percentage of people with self diagnosed allergies in fact have no such condition. :🙂

askthecoffeeguy

I for one am grateful for the level of coffee intolerance in the wider population - we move about 5kgs of decaf at my work per week because we take it seriously and treat the product with the respect it deserves Decaf is I think an after thought in many cafe venues and in this instance I'm happy to say that other's loss is my gain...

CoffeeFollower

I never heard about coffee allergic in any body before. This is a new topic for me :stir