Can certain foods cause terrible stomach aches *every* time you eat them, but NOT cause an allergic reaction?

msg?? geez mate, i get killer stomach aches if i eating take out anything or pasta or thai dishes with store bought sauce ..... any dishes with store bought sauce...... thoses sauces most always have msg in them ....... horrible horrible stomach aches ..... frizzed out manic brain ..... skin rashing... nausea ... puts me in bed for 24 hours sometimes. http://www.msgmyth.com/symptoms.htm http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/05/11/msg-is-why-you-want-to-avoid-mcdonalds-like-the-plague.aspx chek out the second link.......... it's even in that. peace

Could have been the wheat, or it could be a shrimp allergy. I am allergic to sulfa. The only reaction I ever had I instantly got a stomach ache and vomited. That's way back when the doctors made house calls. Needless to say, he didn't back up fast enough.

Many times that is how food allergies manifest initially. Discomfort, bloating, loss of apatite... This occurs when the immune cells responsible for allergic reaction are in the gut but not in the skin. Skin manifestations occur because the protein and glycoprotein antigens that cause a problem are chopped up and sent through the lymph and blood streams during digestion. Your trigger is either not being distributed or you are still at an early stage in developing the allergy and the IgE/antigen-specific mast cells haven't moved throughout your body yet. You don't want to mess with food allergies. You don't want to keep eating what you are allergic to. Doing so will eventually lead to scaring of the intestinal lumen, which will impede your ability to absorb nutrients from your food for the rest of your life. As you get older, the effects of this will become more pronounced. If I were you, I would consider a RAST test for allergies, as it seems that a skin test may not be accurate.