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Is there anything that you are allergic to?
Posted by footiam • 3/17/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: allergic, health
Sometimes my doctor asks me this and I just say no; but I really don't know. Are you allergic to anything?
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Hi
I am allergic to anything with iodine in it (which includes eating fish), and being stung by bees.
I am also very sensitive to many things (but not as full on as being allergic) eg, cigarette smells, perfumes/house cleaning sprays, most medications affect me in some way, and unfortunately most flowers, and some plants
Many years ago I used to own horses. and was so allergic to their food (Lucerne chaff/hay mostly), that I had to end up having a couple years of desensitizing injections, so I could still keep them -
cats and dogs and birds
anything with milk in it - cheese, yogurt, ice cream, etc... Not lactose intolerant, just allergic.
chocolate.
fruit.
I still eat all of this stuff anyways, just gives me a bit of a runny nose and if I eat a ton of ice cream I end up getting a cold usually.
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Tuna - fish.. it almost took my life.. :s -
I always thought that allergies were a sign of moral weakness. Then I developed one myself
After 12 months of sharing an office with two other people, both of them HEAVY smokers, I could never stand near a smoker again -> headaches, ear aches, affected vision and a sore throat. Even butted out cigarettes in an ashtray gives me a sick headache, these days.-
Moral weakness? What?
I'm very sensitive to perfume/fragrance - it gives me migraines, especially the cheap stuff.
I'm sensitive to random foods including whey, cauliflower, palm and coconut.
And I say that I'm allergic to Levaquin because I will have a very bad reaction to it. -
This makes me laugh, because I always thought allergies were the sign of neurotic and overprotective parents. My best friend growing up was allergic to milk, wheat, chocolate, cats, dogs, shellfish, pollen, dust, spinach, hot water and had asthma. I was convinced that it was because her mom was crazy overprotective.
Now, I know allergies are real, but to this day, think her allergies were more psychosomatic.
I have hay fever, asthma, and am allergic to dander. For some reason though, I am not allergic to my cat. Zero reaction.
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I am allergic to butter! Severe rash and swollen lips. Plus severe regurgitation! -
The only foodI am allergic to is raspberries.
However, I am allergic to many different antibiotics. -
metal, perfume, dust-
How are you allergic to metal? Like a specific kind of metal? Or your skin reacts to cheap jewelry?
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Fire ants. I'm also very sensitive to codeine. -
Dust! -
Marzipan animals, well any marzipan really it's the work of the Devil.-
Like martzipan aardvarks? Those sound sweet to me.
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I find it amazing; there are so many things that people are allergic too! Thanks for the tons of information!
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Bullets.-
Ah yes, a dangerous allergy to death and lead poisoning.
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I'm fully allergic to cigarette smoke.
I also have sensitivities to sucrose, copal, patchouli, melaleucca, lavendar, and most pertrochemicals.
O yes...I did develop a kind of allergy to ministers. -
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I'm allergic to benzoyl peroxide.
A funny thing is I didn't know I was allergic to it for the longest time, even though I kept having reactions. I would use a moisturizer with it and my entire face would become this one big scabby, swollen, itchy rash. Two months later, it would happen again. I had maybe five outbreaks before I made the connection. Or rather my doctor made the connection and told me to stop using things with benzoyl peroxide! -
penecillian -
I'm allergic with shrimps and dust -
I have been tested and I'm allergic to 129 different things. Among them are penicillin, codeine, pollens, molds, many common food additives like MSG, and yellow jacket wasp stings.
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I think I'm allergic to a number of topics frequently discussed on BC forums... -
I had allergies when I drank alcohol a few years ago. But now, it seems like alcohol agreed to me so I don't get any allergies even when I drink much.-
I don't know if that's suppose to be lucky...
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I don't have any severe allergies...but I have plenty of allergies that give me a rash, make me sneeze etc.
Pollen
Soap
Milk
cheese
Egg-white
coconut
alcohol (perfumes)
water (the chlorine and calcium traces in tap water give me blotches when I shower)
metal (except gold and platinum)
chlorine
copper sulphate (discovered this in chemistry class)
wool
most cosmetics
biological washing powder
washing up liquid
dust
cats
horses
dogs
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Stillthinking wrote: "This makes me laugh, because I always thought allergies were the sign of neurotic and overprotective parents."
Quite right! My parents used to say that no child would ever develop allergies if they enjoyed plenty of fresh air and lots of swimming in the open ocean. A chlorinated swimming pool would not do.-
I wish it is really that simple!
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This is a tricky question...like you would always know that u r allergic to some substance but it would just be difficult to identify the allergen...its like getting a needle out of a hay stack..... -
- chocolate, the purer stuff not the watered down mostly chemical buy it while in line at the grocery store type.
- my ex-husband. probably his eye killing cologne but I think it could be his personality that makes my throat swell up and my eyes swell shut whenever I'm within 3 feet of him.
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No chocolates then on Valentine Day
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Fortunately nothing at all! -
I forgot to mention that I'm allergic to my own body heat....yes, it sucks...
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Actually I do not know but my children are. The latest one being the most affected. It seems it is a growing trend.
www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7083/Bumrungrad-ho... -
Grass
trees
dust
dustmites M & V (I have no clue what the difference is)
egg white
beef
fish
seafood
cats
dogs
corn
There's more I just can't think of them at the moment. I'm nearly vegetarian because of it though.-
Ragweed
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That's a long list!
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You mean cut grass and cut trees? And the dust that comes from them?
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cut grass and trees that bloom flowers. My husband calls me "The Bubble girl."
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Beef and fish, you can live without but I did not know Americans were eating dogs and cats...
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Lol! Have 'em as pets. It's the dander.
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Salty foods! -
Cats, pine, shellfish [like lobster and the sorts], dust and penicillin.
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Loads of stuff these are my main ones though being exposed to any of these could kill me.
Malaria
Dengue dengue fever
Cholera
Typhoid
Cancer
AIDS
Brain tumours
Bullets
Runaway horses
Runaway trains
Runaway mental patients
Anything that has runaway before it
Cats with knives
Tasers
Any kind of bomb
Psychotic motel owners
Aliens
Marzipan. -
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LMAO!!!!!!
You are a serious riot. I love it.
Very very quick witted!!
BTW, crpitt, what are YOU allergic to??
ME??, you ask? Oh NOTHING!!
Ab--so--lute--ly nothing.
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I may be allergic to penicillin - never had a chance to double-check. I am also very sensitive to MSG. -
Rules-my own or anyone else's. -
dust. grass. pollen. fur. flowers. perfume. chocolate. ... actually just about everything that existed. :)) i can sneeze up to twenty times in a row.-
oh! Chocolate!
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The SUN would you believe. Just this year i became photosensitive. I am writing about it to inform others who might have the same problem.
www.quidsin.wordpress.com/category/sun-allergy/ -
I'm allergic to bubble bath!! I also have asthma x
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Way too many things to be able to put down here! ;-) -
i am allergic to dust so when i am cleaning our house i have to cover my mouth and nose to aviod sneezing. -
Walnuts, but I love bannana nut bread, so I can't avoid it. I'm also allergic to cats and dogs, so I can never have a house animal. -
I'm allergic to:
Dust
Most pollens
COTTONWOOD - extremely
Fireweed pollens (although fireweed honey doesn't bother me)
Quinine Products
Phenylalanine Products
Walnuts
Certain Cat Dander (some cats don't bother me - others do)
BEES
I wish allergies were of the imagination - unfortunately for me - they can be deadly. The invoke horrid asthma attacks and welts and hives. Bees are deadly for me. (NOTE: I've been stung by several bees - 3 out of 4 stings were deadly reactions - 1 had no reaction. Doctor made an offhand statement that I may be allergic to the pollen types that particular bees collect... Me - I'm not so keen on trying to figure it out... )
I am currently on Prednisone - NASTY stuff - but I can breathe - so miraculous as far as I'm concerned.
I also live a lot on Benedryl - which SUCKS - big time.
I also take Singulair - and other asthma products - I don't have bad lungs - just allergies swell my lungs/esophagus and lining to the point that it makes it difficult to breathe.
My daughter is only allergic to Penicillin so I am VERY thankful I didn't pass down my rotten immunities and Allergies.
Strange notation - not medical knowledge:
I had to take Interferon Alpha2a and Ribavirin for over 6 months for chemotherapy and was deadly ill. After that it seems that my immunity system shut down and I'm now more PRONE to allergic reactions than ever before.
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Watermelon and chestnuts. For years my throat would itch like crazy after eating them, then (thanks to Google) I found out it's actually an allergic reaction. Nothing deadly, just incredibly irritating.
And pollen. One tiny pill a day and I'm good, but I live in a dry climate so it's not usually a problem. -
Cats! -
The antibiotic levaquin. -
Ugh...too many things. I had a series of allergy tests run at Mass General Hospital many years ago and turned up allergic to 3/4 of the things they tested me for. Few food allergies, but pollens, molds, animal dander, numerous drugs, etc. etc....and a deadly allergy to bee stings.
I have just had to learn to live with the restrictions these allergies impose on me because I develop a tolerance to the antihistamines and other drugs and then they don't work when I have a really bad attack.
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I have 129 known drug, plant, insect and food allergies (mostly drug). The top offenders include: penicillin, Demerol, yellow jacket wasp stings ... well, I could go on and on but won't.
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sulfa drugs and I know a bunch of people allergic to work -
Lobsters...
I was twice hospitalized because of my super allergy on lobsters.-
you'd think lobsters would be easy enough to avoid!
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Gosh Selbon, I can’t imagine myself being allergic to lobsters, good thing I’m not. That’s the only seafood I eat. -
The last time I had an allergy was when I visited my mom and feasted on an omelet. Too late when somebody told me it was lobster omelet.
I had terrible patches and started to have difficulty in breathing.
I had to be hospitalized for 2 days.
Honestly, that omelet was the best tasting food I ever had.
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Eggs. They make itch.
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Naproxen (anti-inflammatory drug)
Resolve (the carpet cleaner, my carpet was super-clean but I was one big patch of rash)
Freshly cut grass
Perfumes, they give me migraine and I get pimples on my chest, not pretty! -
Lactose, Wheat. Sucks because that rules out Pizza which I love even though I am a fitness dude. We cheat every now and then at this place called Mellow Mushroom...hmmgood pizza. -
Deathly allergic to most bug bites (bees/wasps/hornets, spiders, etc.) I get hives from the antibiotic ceclor. -
I am am its PIZZA!-
Oh! That probably pizz you off!
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Allergies ahh yes I got those unfortunately. Too many damn allergies. -
I'm allergic to the sulfites they put in wine... When I lived in Argentina they didn't add preservatives, and WHOO-O did they make great wine!
I read about a lady who was allergic to her own baby...pretty awful! -
sulfar drugs and sulfar by itself. And they ask due to people having really bad allergies. I have had a patient that had allerigies to latex and she would swell up like a balloon if touched with it. She came into the ER unconcious one night and i happened to be there to tell them. They had to give her an epi shot along with her other problems. So it is a good idea if you have an allergy to et a medalert braclet or card to carry with you. It helps people like me to know what could be worng with you.
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i'm allergic to fish, grass, and codeine. eating fish and walking barefoot/touching grass makes me itch, swell up, and break out in hives. codeine makes me puke! super fun allergies, haha. -
Im allergic to my alarm clock at 6.00 in the morning. -
I am allergic to some cats and pollen. One time I had to go to the emergency room. My throat started constricting and my lips were swelling. They asked me the usual quesitons and asked what I did that day. I said I cleaned a basement, so they checked me for bug bites and found none. They had to give me adrenalin to get me breathing right again. Earlier that day I laid down on a carpet that had just been treated with a product called Carpet Fresh. The doctors concluded that was what caused my very bad allergic reaction. Since then, I have talked to others who had the same reaction to that product.
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