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	cathowl 2007-05-25 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	MSG can kill? Neurotoxin? WTF? It's a SALT made from an AMINO ACID. If it's so damn deadly, why am I still alive? My diet contains vast quantities of MSG-rich ramen. Sigh I'm just going to go sit in the "why must my species be so stupid?" moping corner for a while and eat my toxic noodles. Mmm... Poison... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	alya1989262 2007-05-25 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	My diet contains vast quantities of MSG-rich ramen. Is it bad that my first thought was, 'Another college student!'? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cathowl 2007-05-25 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	Ha! I'm the right age to be one, but I haven't started college yet because of multiple factors. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jetamors 2007-05-25 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	According to Wikipedia, there's actually vaguely something to that. One gets the impression that even if the worst case scenario is true, an adult would have to be eating it out of a jug to see any effect. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cathowl 2007-05-25 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	And since it's a salt, by the time you've eaten enough to poison you, you're dead from dehydration. >_< So the concept of getting MSG poisoning fails on multiple levels. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	soupspooks 2007-05-26 02:20 am UTC (link)
	I'm allergic. It makes me feel like the lining of my stomach is being poked by knitting needles. Yes, the feeling is THAT specific. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cathowl 2007-05-26 07:26 am UTC (link)
	An allergy to MSG? That's one I hadn't heard before. I'm sorry to hear it's painful for you. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	purest_chaos 2007-05-26 07:52 am UTC (link)
	Apparently it's common enough to get a listing in the health section on the MSG article on Wikipedia. Not as an allergy but lists it as an MSG symptom complex. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cathowl
2007-05-26 08:15 am UTC (link)

*Reads the Wikipedia article* "An unknown percentage of the population may react to MSG and develop MSG symptom complex"

MSG symptom complex? Why can't they call it a freaking allergy? Because that's exactly what it sounds like; a food allergy. My mom gets some of those symptoms eating corn.

Why must things we're suspicious of get special names for allergies to them?

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	greenling 2007-05-26 09:49 am UTC (link)
	IIRC, because an allergy is defined much more specifically in the medical sense than in the general sense. To continue using Wikipedia, it says something about different mechanisms and restricting the use of the term to just one of them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	oar 2007-05-26 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, my dad has an MSG allergy as well. Gives him blinding headaches, generally. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	queencallipygos 2007-05-29 01:52 pm UTC (link)
	(waves) My mother gets that too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	irised 2007-06-02 02:09 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, my mum can't eat anything with MSG in it - last time she did she ended up in hospital. Can't remember the details because I was young at the time, but I remember it being fairly dramatic. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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