Allergic to leaves/greenery of tomato plant?

arlinek · June 29, 2007

Is this possible? Our Sweet 100s and Better Boy were planted too close together so it is like a jungle, for sure. Despite many prior visits to the plants and picking the cherry toms, yesterday my DH suddenly, after brushing up his forehead (and his eyeball, he claims) and face several times to the tom plants, started feeling a tightness in his face. Within twenty minutes his face had swollen up, especially his eyes! Now, coincidentally, he had started new medication a week earlier and it was just doubled in qty. from the initial starting dosage. Are there people who can, suddenly, become "allergic" to the plants/leaves, etc.?

June 29, 2007	#1
arlinek Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Diego, Ca. Posts: 37	Allergic to leaves/greenery of tomato plant? Is this possible? Our Sweet 100s and Better Boy were planted too close together so it is like a jungle, for sure. Despite many prior visits to the plants and picking the cherry toms, yesterday my DH suddenly, after brushing up his forehead (and his eyeball, he claims) and face several times to the tom plants, started feeling a tightness in his face. Within twenty minutes his face had swollen up, especially his eyes! Now, coincidentally, he had started new medication a week earlier and it was just doubled in qty. from the initial starting dosage. Are there people who can, suddenly, become "allergic" to the plants/leaves, etc.?