Hello everyone, first of all i'd like to introduce myself. My name is Johan and i live in Sweden. Im new on this forum and i came here to get some opinions on a question i have been thinking about for some time.

The question is: Would people like me be able to live in japan or go on holliday there?

You see, i have a couple of allergics. These range almost harmless reactions to life threatening.

My current allergies are these

1. Milk proteine (I can ingest a maxium of 0.2 litres of warm milk but the doctors does not recommend it)

2. eggs (I can eat those in cakes and bread without reaction, but not eggs itself)

3. Soy, beans and similar stuff (This is quiet severe actually, beans i can't eat without getting affected by throat pain and soy is a life threatening one for me. Skin contact with soy alco triggers a reaction)

4. nuts, all kinds (my most severe allergy, skin contact or digestion, both of em are very dangerous to me)

5. lobsters, crabs and similar animals (i have never gotten in contact with these but from my test results they classify this as a little below soy level so i suspect similar reaction)

What type of social obstacles does this present to me? In sweden i can politely say no thanks when being asked to eat at a friend due to my allergics but in japan i don't know if that is possible without offending people. Can i get some advice on this please?

//Kurten

Wow!
Tough for you..

If you are cooking for yourself you should be OK.. lots of fresh foods to choose from..

If your Japanese is good you should be able to ask restaurant staff what is in your food.. important to tell them you are asking because you have an allergy.. not just because you are fussy

That's a relief ^_^ My main concern was the social consequences of me declining to eat certain food, but now that you said it might be ok if i tell them about my allergics i feel like it might work out :3

Hi!

I am glad that you are asking that question before you go to Japan, as I would also be concerned with some of your allergies.

If it has not yet been done, it would be a good idea to print your allergies in English and in Japanese so that restaurant staff can use it as a checklist. I work in the restaurant business and it always is appreciated, especially when it is multiple allergy like yours.

I would not be concerned with the social aspect of the allergies as they are becoming more rampant, even in Japan. Presenting the list of items would shorten the explanation time, but if the others want a challenge, and they want still to invite you, why not?

Allergy to soy includes the sauce, I presume. this is tricky as it is all over the place, and accidental contact may occur as well. tons of people are lactose intolerant, as well as having seafood allergies.

Good luck!

If you already started a topic about allergies, then I will add my problem. I also have an allergy.

My allergy is fleas.

When I was half year ago in Ukraine, fleas bite me, and that started a full allergy on my body, the "vacation" was awful, it wasn't a vacation, 14 days of nightmare.

Now I don't want it to happen in Japan, so I wonder if I possibly can live in Japan for 3 weeks without touching 1 flea, and if possible to tell me where there no fleas.

I know that in forest or where many animals walking around might appear few fleas, however I from Israel, and here, there are no fleas, though street cats/dogs are walking around.

So can I go for a vacation to Japan?
Where should I go? (so I will have no contact with fleas) lol
And where should I NOT go? (to prevent contact with fleas).

Thanks in advance!

Just learn the name for all those items (good vocab practice I guess) then say:

＿＿が入っていますか

(food name + ni)____ ga haitte imasu ka?

Is ____ inside (it)?

I had a date once with a girl who had a diary allergy. Her face blew up like a fugu. Poor girl.