The Hidden Dangers of Garlic for Those with AIP!

The Hidden Dangers of Garlic for Those with AIP!
The Hidden Dangers of Garlic for Those with AIP!

United States: A woman revealed that eating garlic can be life-threatening for her due to a condition known as “vampire disease,” or acute intermittent porphyria (AIP). This rare genetic disorder affects metabolism and can cause severe pain and debilitating symptoms when triggered.

As reported by Surrey Live, individuals with AIP must avoid certain foods, including garlic, which contains sulphur, to prevent painful episodes. Understanding this condition highlights how different foods can impact health based on individual medical needs.

Phoenix could be poisoned by the garlic because the vegetable has a high content of sulphur. From the NHS website, Porphyrin is a group of rare diseases that result from the body having issues with producing chemicals called porphyrins.

The disorder is characterized by sensitivity to light, fatigue, pale skin and hatred of garlic which are also what vampires are believed to possess. ‘People call it the vampire disease,’ Phoenix said.

It originates from the lore that they have to fear garlic, cannot come out in the sun look pale and have receding teeth. Neurological side effects can make some people reason that anyone suffering from the disorder has to have been a monster or is possessed.

They said, there’s too much sulphur in garlic and I have a thing about sulfur. I avoid sulphurs in general. Garlic when consumed in large proportions or for a long time may prove lethal.

I do not eat garlic anymore after the day I was diagnosed. I could never have garlic bread. It have the potential of triggering an attack in me. They occur at a time that the body has accumulated a toxic load big enough to make it collapse.

‘’It is seriously fatal for me’. During an attack, the body tends to withdraw from everything. It will be sixty times vomiting within two days. It can paralyse me if I stop breathing.” I’ve almost died. Some of the foods that can cause have an attack are some of the things that I eat everyday.

At other events this can build up sometimes if I only consume small portions of a specific food for the whole day. Actually, symptoms can begin 1 – 2 weeks prior to an attack or it may be sudden.”

The mum of the two says she’s suffered with the symptoms since she was a baby but struggled to get a diagnosis as the condition is so rare and she has had more than 480 attacks in her life and says that they’re more painful than childbirth.”

Phoenix said: “I had one attack where I didn’t go to hospital and it went on for 40 hours and it was non-stop vomiting and losing the consciousness, screaming and crying and it was horrific pain that prescription pain and medication hardly touched and hardly touched, and I’ve pushed out two children and it’s worse than childbirth and it’s agony.”

Phoenix says going out for dinner is upsetting as she worries about what ingredients will be in her meal. She said: When I go out for the dinner, unless it’s a place I know and I look at a menu and I cry because I don’t know what I can eat and prefer to stick with my safe foods.