Food as a meltdown trigger

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Does anybody experience meltdown when exposed to certain food?

In my case, it is whenever I eat Nutella... I am not joking.
Whatever is the amount I eat, I have rage/meltdown episodes afterward (shouting, kicking, crying, hurting myself and sometimes others in the way). I had one just a moment ago. I had Nutella cravings this morning, I knew the risk but I took just a little bit anyways when my husband was not at home (he knows what Nutella does to me and prevents me from taking any). It is really like an "allergy"...

Have you consulted a doctor to make sure that it isn't, in fact, a real allergy?
It is possible that you indeed get meltdowns from food, but it sounds a bit extreme for a small amount of a food to have such a big meltdown effect; that is, as you stated, the real of allergies, where the allergy can then trigger the meltdown

Hazelnut and chocolate allergies are somewhat common, so it could be one of those.

Allergies only get one very specific facet of immune triggering. If it's only anger, and it isn't accompanied by some sort of hive, itchiness or throat tightening, or another classic sort of allergic sypmtoms, it's 100% not an allergic reaction. It could still be an immune system reaction, just not an allergic one which is only specific subset of T body that responds.

Lots of things in the media about food and autism. I don't do well with coffee or chocolate, (but tea is fine) I have celiac disease, and I think I may have *just* figured out why, based on my diet alone, I suddenly had so many problems with life in general when I left home.

duh, and absolutely for me, gluten
Well, not necessarily 'meltdown', but some sort of degredation of regular functioning down to the level of 'the slightest thing will probably make me have a meltdown'
I get body temperature fluctuations with it too, and tiredness/alertness

hahahaha YES

My husband has violent reactions to onions! Once when we were kids we drove a hour to get hot dogs from this drive in place. When we ordered, he was very clear about how there should be absolutely NO onions. We were driving back down the mountain, and he was having that first wonderful bite...BAM! Onions! We nearly ran off the road, he threw it out the window, sputtering, cursing, flailing...It was a couple years before he would eat a hot dog of any kind again. I don't believe he's had one from that place since and that was about 20 years ago.

I asked him once if him eating onions was like if I was asked to eat a bug salad and he said yes, exactly. The taste, texture, idea, everything about it was revolting and panic inducing.

I can totally relate. A wide variety of foods can cause various reactions for me, including meltdowns. As a matter of fact, the biggest breakthrough for me, socially and emotionally, happened when I "cleaned up" by diet according to my sensitivities. I believe the medical community knows very little about food intolerances/allergies, especially for some of us on the autism spectrum who often react differently than most people to various things. An eye opener for me was a book called "Brain allergies" by William Philpott.

I've never had anything like that happen. I'd stop buying it if I were you. If it's only Nutella and you have had all the ingredients in it, in other things without that happening to you then it might be a preservative that's in it. One of the peanut butter companies made a Nutella knockoff, so you might want to try that and see if thats what did it.

Also, it may very well be psychological. You could try a test to see. Get your husband to sneak some Nutella into something you are eating and not tell you and then see if it happens. If it doesn't, then it's all in your head. That is very possible. My husband used to say he was allergic to mushrooms and would get very sick if he ate them. His mother said he wasn't. I snuck them into the roast and not only did he not get sick, he loved them. Until he knew what they were. Now he doesn't go all overboard about them being in food, he just picks them out. The rest of us love them so I still use them but I always use the big ones that he can see to pick out, or if I fix his plate, which is what I normally do, I pick them out for him.

I don't know what he could sneak Nutella into without you knowing it was there, but there has to be something. Also, did you try the other flavor of it to see if it was the Hazelnuts that did it? If you haven't had the other ingredients in other ways than Nutella, try them separately and see if that does the same thing.

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Interesting! I don't quite get that, but I do get anxiety when I eat too much. That may just be because there's less room in my chest for lungs and I can't breathe properly.