Here's another fun fact. I've been hospitalized twice in my life due to avocado, once by ambulance.
On a fluke crazy incident once at a friend of mine's little girls birthday party, about 25 years ago now, I bit into a salad, I didn't know it had avocado in it. Immediately I knew it was bad.. it starts at my lips and if I don't get help quick my throat will swell shut.
At the time, I had a bowl of strawberries in my hand, I didn't wanna freak anyone out so I took the strawberries with me to my truck and I was gonna try to drive myself to the hospital.
The more I ate those strawberries, the lesser the reaction. I ate more and more and the allergic reaction went away completely. I still carry a bendedryl on me, I used to have to carry an epi pen in elementary school, benedryl does the trick these days.
But since that birthday party, I've come in contact with avocado three times and all three times I ate strawberries and I never went to a hospital, the reaction just went away.