Question about symptoms please

[vintagesf]

Hello, a friend of mine thinks she might have HFI as well... her symptoms are as follows (does this sound like it could be HFI?):

upon drinking a glass of orange juice she gets really strong facial flushing and her head feels hot, followed by a slight raise in blood pressure and feeling weak and tired.. as far as I know she hasn't tested her blood sugar after ingesting fructose, so no way to tell if she gets hypoglycemic... she does tolerate glucose a lot better though

or is this possibly diabetes?

thanks for your input!

[vintagesf]

oh, forgot to mention.. she also gets palpitations immediately after ingesting orange juice, pineapple or any high fructose meal...

THANKS!

[charlie]

Hmm, this sounds like a phenomenom called sugar dump, I was recently looking it up funny enough as someone suggested it as something meg may experience as she on a bad reaction gets what seems to be a high temperature and goes very hot and sweaty.

So yes, may be diabetes and certainly she should get checked for that first. Basically if the sugar load is too high for the body the stomach empties very fast into the small intestines and the body reacts to the sudden sugar or carb load in the intestines. If you google "sugar dump" it should come up.

[ukbill]

Personally I have never heard of any of these symptoms being associated with HFI.

High temp.. err no the opposite I go into shock and get very cold and shake a lot until I throw up then I'm fine for about 15 min before the cold and shaking comes back and I throw up again.. etc etc.

If I drank a glass of Orange Juice (YUK!) I would be ill for 4 to 6 hours as above.

Never had any sign of paplitations either.

Anyone else care to comment?

[ukbill]

Ahh yes sorry Fred I forgot to add that as a codecil, none of us can "diagnose" anything, been as we are not medically trained, we can only offer our opinions and experances in my case I can only offer my experainces of HFI as a person who has lived with it for some 56 years..

Fred has lived with it for quite a lot longer than I have.

So we can only share our experiances of how it is for us.. other people might have different symptoms or show different reactions..

So much of any human body's reactions to things is phycosomatic and / or learned reactions (Pavlovian reactions) it makes things very difficult to understand and causes a lot of confusion and arguments as to what can be eaten and what is not safe, for example.

[venusillegitima6]

As a HFI person, I wouldn't probably drink the whole glass of orange juice because I would hate the taste of it after 2 small sips.

Once, I drank a full glass of homemade sweet-tasting wine that I felt sick for an entire week. Learnt my lesson, though.

Does your friend have strong reactions and/or problems when eating/drinking other foods high in fructose?