Unfortunately you are wrong. I have allergy induced asthma which means I will have an asthma attack when I unknowingly eat something I'm allergic to. I didn't become allergic to some foods until my late 40's and it was discovered when I ate a taco salad at a local restaurant that I'd had dozens of times in over 10 years. In the 10 minutes from when we left the restaurant until I got home I started wheezing for the first time and then itching terribly and just wanted to crawl in bed but when putting on pajamas I could watch a rash start spreading all over. I called nurses line and she said OK for my husband to drive me to hospital which was only about 7 minutes away as long as we had cell phone to call 911 on the way if needed as I was having difficulty breathing by this time. At the hospital they rushed me back as I was having my first asthma attack. All we could determine is that a cook at the restaurant which has shrimp on the menu and I never eat may have accidentally dripped shrimp juice into other ingredients on the line which ended up in my dinner. Now if I have something that triggers wheezing I take benadryl to stop it as the ER wasn't fun and it was the IV fluids were painful and burned while administered slowly. I have now had 3 asthma attacks and they have only been mask induced as if it's something I ate it happens within about 20 minutes and I had not eaten in an hour or more before going into building that required a mask. My 1st 2 times it was within 10 minutes of putting on mask and having my breathing restricted that I started wheezing so since I didn't have perishables in my cart I abandoned my cart and exited to take of mask as quickly as possible and within 10-15 minutes my breathing cleared up - without medication - by the time I arrived home. It was the removal of the mask allowing me to breath that helped. The 3rd time once the wheezing started about 9pm at night I got the mask off as soon as I could but within 10 minutes I went from wheezing to difficulty breathing. As soon as we got home I spent 10 minutes tearing through all the drawers in our bathroom and anywhere else I could think and was completely out of Benadryl. I told my husband we needed to run to closest store a mile away where I could get some as if I didn't take some soon and see if it would work within 20 minutes we would have to go to ER. My husband grabbed his keys and we jumped in car as I wasn't going to stay home alone in case I stopped breathing. He pulls up in front of door and says he can't go in as he doesn't have any shoes on - he ran out of house too fast. I had to run in and of course pharmacy is always in the back and was panicking when I couldn't spot the pink box right away. I found it and then ran to self check out as only 1 register was open and the manager was helping the cashier with a customer. My CC chip wasn't working and I'm still in panic mode as I'm gasping for breath. I ask the manager if there is another register to open (gasping between each word) as my card was having issue and I was having asthma attack. She took me right to another register and my chip still wasn't working and she tried swiping and for unknown reason still not working - she said just take it and go. I said I wanted to pay and dug out another card as fast as I can and it worked and I got out of there. I didn't wear a mask in and believe me not one person said anything about it as I was clearly in distress. I swallowed a couple pills and within 15 minutes my airwaves were opening up which was a good sign and withing 30 minutes the wheezing stopped. So take it from someone with 1st hand experience who after about 10 years knows how to spot the 1st signs of attack and what I was doing in the previous 10-20 minutes to know what the trigger was
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