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Real simple I am honest to goodness allergic to everything I have been tested for. Animals - cats, dogs, rabbits, etc.
All pollens, trees, grasses, molds, flowers - so the wheat intolerance was not a surprise! Spring is hell, summer is hell, fall is hell - winter inside with the mold and dry heat is hell!

Here’s the funny part - I have three degree - horticuture - landscaping - landscape design!!!! HA -HA -HA!!! (no, really I do!)

Oh wait, I am not allergic to two things peanuts and cockroaches...No seriously! In all the allergy testing the only thing I came up NOT POSITIVE for was roaches! So I am going to move to a sterile environment and raises Hissing Cockroaches as pets! Anyone want to buy a roach????

On the bright side, when I got rid of wheat - my other allergies went away. It’s that whole auto-immune thingy!

Oh yeah - the apple pear peach thing - have been taking the skin off since I was little because it would make my mouth itch. Mom would call me a liar - just like she did with the milk. THANKS MOM!

The apple thing also applies to the very small birch trees that grow in the Far North. They usually don't get more than 6 inches high. Animals graze on them. However, they are very high in cyanide and it's enough to damage a human being.

There is, fortunately, a chemical in birchbark that can give certain sensitive people the same effect as ipicac. That chemical is also in apple, pear and peach skins.

So, if you are starving to death in the arctic and decide to eat those little bushy things (dwarf birch) you are going to die UNLESS, lo and behold, you're of Lappland descent, and then you'll just upchuck!

I always peel my apples, pears and peaches. My reaction to peach skin is entirely too dramatic for retelling.

NOTE: regarding the allergy clusters around Celiac, findings with children who are both autistic and have Celiac revealed that much of their autistic condition derived from HOLES in their intestinal walls caused by the ILGE antibodies.

Once they got their diets stabilized, much of their autism went away.

They also lost a lot of their other allergies.

I feel for you. I have had many allergies all my life (I am 68). I am not bothered by seasonal allergies much anymore but I am very allergic to corn and chocolate. The chocolate I can easily avoid but corn is in everything. Here is the scary part, since I have gotten older I have become allergic to almost every prescription drug that the doctor wants me to take. the latest is a blood pressure medication that made my tongue swell up. One of these days I am going to need something to save my life and not be able to tolerate it.