Yes, You Can Be Allergic To caffeine.
Some people have asked if people can be allergic to caffeine. I’m no doctor, but yes. Yes, you can be allergic to caffeine. And it’s not something a lot of doctors have known to look for. The effects of caffeine allergy look like some more severe mental disorders.
When you’re suffering from an allergic reaction to caffeine, one or more of the following things can happen: “loss of focus, intellectual deterioration, delusions, loss of judgement, and other symptoms of poisoning.” Because many people don’t properly recognize the caffeine allergy, they continue to ingest it (and why wouldn’t they?), and that can damage the brain and make things worse.
With symptoms like loss of focus and delusions and symptoms of poisoning, it’s no wonder the reaction often goes improperly diagnosed. What is diagnosed? “ADHD, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, TMJD, PMS, and other conditions.”
If your doctor diagnoses you with any of the above, and you ingest a lot of caffeine, make sure he rules that out as a cause before putting you on a lot of drugs.
Source (Note that this is PRWeb, so it’s not a real news story. It’s just a press release from a company trying to sell books).
Update: We’ve taken a look at 192 comments below and published a Top 20 Caffeine Allergy Symptoms article.
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I am not sure if i am allergic to caffeine or not… but whenever I drink a lot of it, I get weird pains in my legs. I also feel really jittery. Is this just what caffeine does to people, or am I weird?
Okay. I have been looking at a lot of articles about caffeine allergies and none of them address my issue. Allergies are something that can form over time. I may not have always been allergic to pet dander or pollen or caffeine, right? So, before one has been intoxicated with caffeine to cause psychosis, what are the beginning symptoms? There must be a baby stage, before you become saturated. What would one’s symptoms be like at the first series of allergic reactions to caffeine?
i am allergic to caffeine – my reaction is fairly simple – i get a very very bad headache and stomach pain and then my body rejects the caffeine by vomiting it out – but for a while after i am trapped in a horribly angry mood
I think I might be allergic to caffeine…my tongue has been swelling kind of on and off over the past year or so. I don’t think its only caffeine (I don’t have it much) but I’ve recently noticed that when I drink coffee my tonge seems worse for a day or two. Has anyone experienced (or heard of) anything like this?
I believe I am allergic to caffeine also. I have noticed symptoms for the last couple of years, but they weren’t so bad so I ignored them. But the last couple of months have been awful. I am very nervous, jittery, dizzy and can’t focus on anything. I only drink 2-3 cups in the morning. My mother developed a caffeine allergy when she was in her twenties also. I almost feel at times that I am going to have a panic attack, like I am crawling out of my skin. I just need to know how to get this poisen out of my system????
I have also been diagnosed as being allergic to caffeine. When I drink it I will retain water which is strange since coffee, tea, etc, are suppose to be a diaretic. I also noticed my skin begins to itch as well along with the jittery-ness, headaches, tingly legs. If you drink a lot of water it helps with the affects. Also I heard eating certain foods, such as pasta, bread, carb based foods help with the side effects because they absorb caffeine in the body. But they may backfire since it takes longer to digest.
Hope some of this helps.
I do sneak in a Starbucks once in a while, but it is often too much. I stick with Ginger Ale. Caffeine free!
I don’t want to know about your gross health problems!…..well, I’ll probably thank you later for telling me about them but I DON’T WANNA KNOW! LALALALALALALAAYOUCAN’TMAKEME!YOUCAN’TMAKEME! But really…this isn’t about you other dudes who are telling us about your non-caffiennated lives….no offense, but if I said the same sort of stuff that was about problems that you know for a fact aren’t caused by caffiene, well, then, you’d probably think the same thing.
You know what really annoys me? People like you. You think you’re so smart. Well, it just so happens that this site was created to talk about caffeine poisoning, and if you don’t like that, then go drink some caffeine!
My allergy is now extreme. The smallest amount will set off an ugly and prolonged reaction, with debilitating stress levels, panic and the like. It stays that way for weeks. I am alcoholic and cafes were the way out from bars and clubs \. Th relished the cappicinos etc – It was really hard work to rid myself of that way of life. Today life is “normal”, with lots of yoga and an effective energy enhancing technique. Caffeine is my enemy. They say there are a 100 million people employed in all aspects of just coffee alone! What a mad planet we live on…….
I just got a job at a coffee shop and now I am learning to be a barista. Anyways…I had to learn about the different taste of the espresso when it came out into the shot glasses well I guess i had about four and I felt ok and went home and about 3 hours later I have this massive headache and I feel like I am starting to get the flu and im all nausiated and getting jittery and i wake up in the morning im not that nausiated but i still feel jittery. It’ll be a little weird working in a coffee shop being allergic to coffee, but thats if it was the espresso…
Kevin, the tongue swelling is definitely a caffeine allergy. I developed it a few years ago and went for blood tests which came up negative (although they didn’t specifically test for caffeine), by trial and error I then determined that my swollen tongue was caused by caffeine. Sometimes it gets so swollen that the teeth make serrated indentations around the edge and the back of the tongue gets sore from rubbing on the jaw. It is tea, coffee and coke that make it worse. Decaf coffee is just as bad and has some addtional other side effects.
I also suffer from caffeine allergy and today I slipped up at lunch. The iced tea looked so good. But now I am stuck with horrible reaction. My heart is racing, my body temperature is elevated, my skin is itching, my focus is shot and i have a terrible headache. The only relief I know about is to drink lots of water.
For many years i was constantly getting excess mucous discharge from my chest and i had to keep spitting it out and everytime i drank tea, i would end up with a yellow tongue and a horrible taste in my mouth. i have now stopped all caffeine intake and i am much better. I never knew you could be allergic to tea as i loved drinking tea.
It is interesting to know what symptoms people suffer from having caffeine, i find that when i have caffeine i have stomach pains which my doctor told me could be related to IBS, i also vomit as my body rejects the caffeine. Colpermine i think thats how you spell it, is a herbal tablet which has helped me live a normal live. It is possible to grow out of an alergy such as this, it effected me when i was 7 and from the age of 17 i now have no problems. However i do avoid drinking fizzy drinks when possible and dont drink hot drinks.
Is anyone else MUCH more sensitive to coffee than to tea? I can drink tea, not tons of it, but a small to moderate amount. But I really can’t drink ANY coffee. It leaves me agitated, spacy, totally unfocused, reactive, rottenawful mood, oppressive-ominous-black-cloud feeling.
I am allergic to caffeine. After I drink it, I can’t think straight and completely lose focus. Kind of like a really bad food coma.
When I drink tea or coffee with caffeine my gold jewelry turns ny fingers, neck, wrist black. Can this be another allergy symton to caffeine?
I am allergic to caffeine. I can’t even eat chocolate. If I ever consume something even a little bit of caffeine (this happens every now and then), I am bed ridden for the better part of a day. I’m in a constant “fight or flight” condition: heart racing, mind racing, sweating, breathing quickly. The most I can do when I have a reaction is to lie in bed and wait for the reaction to pass.
I have the sore sensitive tongue and inside my mouth, broke out in red itchy welts along my lower back. I also have the headach that will not ease up. My allergy first started with a coated tongue.
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I’m allergic to caffeine. It’s a trigger for a skin condition I have called eczema. At first I thought I was allergic to work but then I realized pretty much the only time I drink any meaningful amount of caffeine was at work. I weaned myself off it and my eczema hasn’t flared up since.