Does anyone know what the scientific name for a phobia of oranges is?

I get nervous around oranges, in that I won't touch one for anything, and looking at them or smelling them makes me sweat, adn feel physically sick. I won't even touch a carton of orange juice! Yep, I know it sounds completely stupid to everyone beside myself, but for some reason I have this! Just wondering if anyones knows or could find out what the actual name is as in ________phobia? I've been googling forever and can't seem to find it anywhere!

Does anyone know what the scientific name for a phobia of oranges is?
You are not alone: http://www.fastimprovement.co.uk/phobia.... ( see last chapter )


http://pctechforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=... ( last answer )


and here you find a link to names of phobias:


http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...





But a scientific name is not to find, only orange phobia.


How do you like "arancia phobia", that could hit the mark.


Arancia is the Italian and not the Grecian or Latin word for orange, but has Arabic origin ( Arabian medicine has a long tradition ) and it reads nice.
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Reply:Did your mom gave you too much orange juice as a little kid?


Could just be tired of it?





Or might have a food allergy. Became hypersensitive.


Probably gave you negative psychological aspects as well.


Search Yahoo key words: orange, citrus, allergies





Store bought OJ, home made OJ, whole oranges eaten fresh, orange punches, Tang. Give you problems?


Other citrus fruits (fresh and their juices)


e.g. mandarin, lemon, lime, grapefruit, blood oranges


mixed fruit juices containing orange (e.g. orange-banana-strawberry-pineapple)





Foods containing orange? cakes, pastries, candies, orange jello, marmalaids


Anything derived from orange? orange pectin, vitamin C tablets


Other acidic fruits


e.g. tomato, strawberry, pineapple.


Other fruits? e.g. banana


Non-fruits? veggies, orange colored veggies.


Other foods? e.g. milk





Orange colored Non-food items?


(just in case it makes you hate everything orange in color).


Have you ever dated a highway worker (they wear orange)?





Any other allergies? pollen, medications, antibiotics.





If you are allergic to a protein in it.


It might be heat labile.


Try heating orange juice.


A ceramic pot is better, because acid+heat can eat away certain metal pans, don't want aluminum ions in your body!


5 min just below boiling might work.





You could consult an allergist


Can have a blood and skin test performed.


Or just avoid oranges!





As for a name. How about a phrase:


Orin-ja glad you aren't allergic or have a phobia to everything in this world?!





Best Wishes!
Reply:Boy... you picked a tough one. What rhymes with orange?





The closest I can come is "esperidoeidiphobia" which means a fear of citrus fruit.
Reply:I looked through a bunch of huge lists and found nothing.





I know it is a legit condition. Maury Povich had a show and one guy had a fear of peaches.
Reply:I do not have a strong phobia but I have known some who do and seen how they struggled with random encounters that set them to sweating and struggling to remain in control.





Greek for the fruit orange is portokali so if the basis of the fear's name is a greek word then this may help coin a term or search for the term. Portokaliophobia ?





Phobias are usually Greek words because the word phobia is Greek. In this case though I don't know of a Latin word for the fruit other than its genus species name: Citrus sinensis.





Because for you odor is part of the trigger the fear of odors term is Osphresiophobia or Osmophobia. Odors can trigger very strong memory associations. Odors trigger migraines so sufferers learn to associate strong odors with the pain.





Another means of naming could be on the fruit type, hesperidium, if the phobia covers other fruit in the citrus class such as lemons or limes. Hesperidiophobia ?





This could be confused with hesperos meaning 'the west' that is used in hesperophobia for fear of the west.