Food allergies and a balanced diet

Eyeing vitamins and they have fruit extracts? I didn't know women's one a day had fruit extract. Are you talking about gummies? Many of them have no minerals and their vitamin content is often lower than a regular multi. Consider them sugar candy.
Do you have trouble swallowing vitamins? Try Centrum Chewables or even Flinstones.

Can you try the powered super foods- many brands are available at walmart and you can look at the label and see what is in each of them. This may help you get the nutrition of fruits or veggies without becoming unsafe for you.

So, so sorry that you are going through this, hon.

Re: vitamins - you might want to check out a company called Kirkman labs (I think they are kirkman group now) - they only sell online. They were the vitamin suggested to me by my dietician when I was diagnosed with a different rare disorder than yours, but one that also have huge swaths of food knocked out of my diet due to reactions. They may have at least a few things you can have!

Re: reactions - You might find some benefit checking out some mast cell activation disorder forums (they have some on Facebook, if you search for mcad, mcas, or mast cell disorder, you'll find some). This is obviously not the same disorder as yours, although it might not hurt to get tested for it, as some folks I know with it turned out to have it involved in OTHER disorders that involve allergies, so it might now hurt to get tested, you know?

But anyway, it IS one that involves a lot of allergic reactions like yours. And the thing is, lots of folks there have focused on something that may help you: finding ways to help your mast cells not react as often, or keeping the reactions lower. In the mast cell disorder, the cells - which would be triggered by the IgE in your disorder and by other things in MCAD- release the histamine that is causing the bad reactions.

And basically, a lot revolves around keeping histamine levels lower. This can be done by getting DAO capsules sometimes - it is the enzyme that breaks down histamine, and therefore it lowers the levels in the body more quickly. A low histamine diet is also used - it would not be as useful for you, because you have such a limited diet already, but as an example - leftovers raise your histamine levels.

Histamine starts being produced by the bacteria/yeast/etc... that breaks down food as it begins to rot. So as soon as the food is picked, or meat is killed, histamine starts to rise. It continues to do this in the fridge. Long cooking times increase it even more, weirdly. So it turns out that shorter cooking times, and eating food freshly made, or freezing it immediately and thawing right before eating, will keep histamine levels lower, too.

And many natural processes utilize histamine, so it increases it in your body - like exercise and strong emotions (it is used to elevate the heart rate in these situations). so knowing that, if you are in a situation where you have reacted to something, not exercising for a day or two, or trying to stay mellow, may actually help keep your reaction a bit lower.

There are also natural mast cell stabilizing compounds in foods. Unfortunately, many of them are found in plants, which I imagine is not good (I was not sure if tree leaves contain LTP, but if not, olive leaf tea extract can be helpful with mast cell stabilizing due to quercetin and luteolin in it). There are supplements containing quercetin, one of the big stabilizers. I am not sure how it is processed, so not sure if it would be safe for you, but it might be worth calling a company up, you know? Mast cell stabilizing medication exists, like cromolyn, but it can have some pretty intense side effects, so it often not used unless the situation is very severe.

Wishing you the best of luck with a difficult situation!