An allergy to certain raw (not cooked) fruits and vegetables is known as oral allergy syndrome.

This is called oral allergy syndrome.

Rossall had attracted some publicity in 1981 as a sufferer from total allergy syndrome and Brown often faced questions about the illness as a result.

More serious is the fact that conventional doctors do not accept that there is such a thing as 'environmental illness' or the 'total allergy syndrome.

An allergy syndrome that affects the mouth and tongue may occur after eating certain fresh fruits and vegetables.

Symptoms of mouth (oral) allergy syndrome:

Although people with oral allergy syndrome rarely have an anaphylactic reaction, they should ask their doctor whether they need to carry injectable epinephrine.

Among the diagnoses widely embraced today are chronic fatigue syndrome, yeast infection, food allergies, temporomandibular joint syndrome and total allergy syndrome.

The newspapers invented the misleading name 'total allergy syndrome' for her problem, as well as the melodramatic headline 'Allergic to the Twentieth Century'.

The first is known as oral allergy syndrome.