Can pumpkins or squash be slightly toxic. The reason I ask this was I made wuash and orange soup and ate it for my lunch the other day. For the next couple of days I felt decidedly queasy until I was sick. Also a few years ago I had a slice of baked pumpkin and within an hour or so became very ill. At that time a colleague of mine had pumpkin soup (not my pumpkin) and she said that she had been ill as well. Has anyone else experience this problem. I am still strying to work out other possible causes.
Perhaps you are allergic to them..... :-\
When I cut and prepare squash my hands get dry and 'tingly', but I don't get any sickness from it - quite the reverse, yummers in my opinion.
I suppose you could be allergic to them.
Sorry can't be more help
Alison
Oh dear, sorry to hear you haven't been feeling great. How are you with the rest of the cucurbit family? Do you react to those aswell?
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No I don't think I am allergic with them - its only happened twice but with the baked pumpkin perhaps I was a bit over greedy with the butter the the last time is more worrying. I hadn't had anything to eat well before I had the soup and the only thing I can think that could have been odd was the orange. I washed the orange under cold water but if it had been waxed that wouldn't have washed off in the cold water. I feel perhaps there was pesticide residue on the skin which I had taken the zest from.
Will make me a lot more careful when using citrus zest from now on.
May be it was a mix of two or more things in the recipe.
If you understand what I mean. The example I can offer is:-
If my OH has cucumber or onion with cheese he is fine. If he has cucumber and onion with cheese he is riddled with indigestion and is quite unwell.
Apparently there are some things work adversely with prescrined medication too, there was a documentry about it on a tv programme some years ago.
I think it's quite possible that you're allergic. Do you have other allergies/asthma/eczema?
And what PurpleHeather said. Grapefruit particulary isn't good with a lot of medications. Some mushrooms are also funny in how they'll make some people ill and not others, and how it can depend on what else you've eaten - or drunk!
and broad beans :)