Allergy to vegetable oil?

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My DD on three occasions has come up in red blotches on her face after having chips in a restaurant. This has only happened with chips and each time we've asked the kitchen what they're cooked in they say it's vegetable oil. One time was a blend of vegetable and rapeseed oil. There's also been no other side effects.

A quick google says it could be the soy beans but she has dairy free yogurts sometimes at my Mums and has never reacted to those and they are made with soya?
Does anyone have experience of this? I find it to be a bizarre allergy but it could be common! Or could it be something else within the vegetable oil?
We will try to get her an allergy test but the reaction is very mild, doesn't seem to bother her and goes in about half an hour so I don't know if that warrants one?
Any advice or experience would be great!

As a chef I would say some places use one fryer for lots of items.
Could be gluten,nuts ,fish,anything.
I would get her tested.

The oil could be contaminated due to other things cooked in the fryer. Also, most chips have a batter coating - is she allergic to wheat or pea protein for example?

It could just be one of those things.

Have you given her homemade chips with veg oil at home to see if the reaction is the same?

Please go and get her tested.

My son has an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts and youl would be truly truly astonished how many generic oils used out there have a peanut oil element to them. Particularly since the war in Ukraine which was one of our largest sources of sunflower oil. The mixing of oils with peanut oil has become alarmingly common.

It's highly unlikely she hasn't come into contact with veg oils in other foods. What is she having alongside the chips?

@whatisforteamum A manager once told us her chips were cooked in a separate fryer so it wouldn't be contaminated with gluten. But I didn't think to ask about other things so this is a great shout!

@Nightmanagerfan She has a lovely varied diet and we haven't noticed it with anything else. But I've never even heard of pea protein so I'll have to get my head into gear on googling!
We haven't tried it at home as I was scared it might cause a bigger reaction. Which sounds ridiculous now I've written it down 😂
We'll give it a try! I think I just went into panic mode!
Thanks both for your insight!

@Scampuss One time was just the chips she pinched off my plate. She hadn't had anything else as she had had lunch at home.
She's only little, almost two. Don't want to sound mean for not ordering her something 😂

Please Op- just go and get a referral to an allergy centre and get her properly tested. You can't muck around with allergies.

@WheresMySupportCat We absolutely will now! This thread has made me see I need to clamp down a little more. As it was only mild I thought we wouldn't be taken seriously but this has absolutely convinced me otherwise.

My guess is soya. My grandson has a similar reaction to soya

I'm glad. My child does have a peanut allergy as I said which we found out about when he was around 18 months but when he was aged 11 years he very suddenly developed a quite rare allergy to the cold. He's literally allergic to the cold. It's called cold urticaria. We found out by going swimming one day (which we had done for years every Saturday and he would sometimes get itchy and small hives which I thought little of) and ended up in A&E. It can come at any stage of your life, and isn't to be trifled with.

Hope it goes well OP.

Oh she is still little!

Did you take pics of the rash? It can help with getting GPs to take allergy stuff more seriously, so if you didn't do take pics if it happens again.

It really could be anything, it's worth keeping a diary of food/drink/meds just to see if you can identify any patterns if she reacts again.

My daughter has never been able to eat chips when out as they can't guarantee that the oil won't have previously been used for something which she is allergic too.
My daughter has a nightshade allergy and quite often chips have paprika in. You need to ask for the full ingredient list of any foods consumed whenever you have a reaction to find the culprit. My daughter had a reaction to the dairy free petit pilous yoghurts. She had regularly had almonds in her diet so I was convinced it must have been dairy contamination. I contacted the company and they had a completely dairy free production method. It turned out that my daughter is allergic to tapioca/manioca which is in the yoghurts. If she hasn't previously had almonds I would have assumed it was that. Absolutely anything can be an allergen

@Superscientist It's wild isn't it! I hadn't quite comprehended just how much contamination would be going on but it all makes total sense. Thank you for your insight. I will be asking more questions if it happens again with anything at all and I will take pictures too as suggested.

I have come to this thread via putting 'allergy to vegetable oil' in the search bar.

I am allergic to seed oil/vegetable oil.

It has taken me a while to work out what it is but I am certain now. I get painful joints and muscles, brain fog and depression. I sleep really badly and get anxiety and I go red in the face.

It's a all body pain that is the most depressing symptom and the one that takes the longest to go.

It's not the proteins as they are removed in the refining process and usually, allergies are to foreign proteins.

It seems like everything has it in, even stuff you would never think has it in and each time I have an episode, I am getting worse.