I don't know. It's a mystery to me. I don't get the same problem with sugary foods, sodas, sugar in tea or with bread. I do get thrush like problems sometimes, and have done for years. I'm also fine with sweets/candy and chocolate. But if I eat fruit, 99% of the time I'll get rhinitis. I was okay with a couple of grapes a day, fruit sorbet, yogurt, and I had some strawberries over the summer that I don't remember having a reaction too. I had to stop drinking juice because the rhinitis was so bad.

I've heard of people having a genuine allergy to fruit, but that it's rare. I don't remember having this in my childhood as I would have mashed banana with milk for supper and I don't remember being sick after it. I can't eat bananas now - even though it's not a fruit, but a herb.

I was thinking I have a problem with nuts as I have like palpitations the past couple of days and I've been eating some peanuts, but I often eat peanuts with no problems, so I think it has to be the fruit for me. I really don't understand why, but if I eat fresh fruit of juice, then 9/10 I will be sneezing, runny nose, sore eyes in about 24 hours.

As I haven't eaten fruit today, I am feeling better already and my nose has stopped running. It took a long time for me to make the connection with the fruit and for a while I had this rhinitis almost constantly as I drank a lot of juice. It used to drive me up the wall - like there were thousands of ants in my nose. I really was at my wits end with it. I tried the nasal spray I got but all it did was dry me out so that my eyes were sore from lack of water.