Do you suffer from allergies?

What are you allergic to?

  • Nothing

    Votes: 57 33.5%

  • Allergic Rhinitis (Hay fever)

    Votes: 75 44.1%

  • Animals (Pets)

    Votes: 26 15.3%

  • Dust/Mold

    Votes: 41 24.1%

  • Food(s)

    Votes: 22 12.9%

  • Insects

    Votes: 14 8.2%

  • Latex

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Medicines/Drugs

    Votes: 15 8.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 19 11.2%
  • Total voters
    170
There are in some areas a very high incidence of fine pollen producing plants. This leads to more pollen in the air which the body reacts to. Tuff.
We generate huge amounts of dust due to our modern living style. Again just the body reacting to it. We then feed ourselves pills to suppress the reaction.
How does this make any sense?
 
Geoff.D said:
We generate huge amounts of dust due to our modern living style. Again just the body reacting to it. We then feed ourselves pills to suppress the reaction.
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Yes. It improves the quality of life for sufferers.
 
Agree with both of you - pills for those having regular bad reactions, the rest should stop being Karens.
 
I'm allergic to some cats. I wasn't allergic to the cat I grew up with, and to my wife's cat. Both were feral kittens.
If I visit other people with cats, it usually takes around 3 or 4 hours inside their homes before my eyes start to go red and itcy, the back of my head/neck itches and I get a runny nose. Depending on if I am where the cat usually is.
 
If you have eczema, what could possible underlying causes be? I seem to have picked it up this year, but my diet or environment has not changed nor the products that I use. It's on my feet so definitely not sanitizer , I think

Need to visit a dermatologist
 
InternetLuddite said:
If you have eczema, what could possible underlying causes be? I seem to have picked it up this year, but my diet or environment has not changed nor the products that I use. It's on my feet so definitely not sanitizer , I think

Need to visit a dermatologist
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Are you sure it's not Athletes Foot? I hear it looks similar but don't know.

My eczema is mild, mostly on the face and scalp. Just a development with age. Could be lots of reasons for yours though.
 
www.nailsmag.com

It is Athlete’s Foot Or Eczema?

Athlete’s foot and eczema may produce the same symptoms, but their causes and treatments are very different.
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A clue to athlete's foot is thick, crumbly nails. But eczema can also affect the nails.” Young says that affected skin between the toes, especially the fourth and fifth toes, usually indicates athlete's foot, while cracked and red skin on top of the foot or on top of the toes indicates eczema.
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Cold Urticaria - yes you can be allergic to the cold... My case if there is sudden change in temperature (so from 25C to 15C) I break out in hives and have lips/digits swell... Below 21C is my threshold then things get interesting...
 
Suffered for many years at my parents house with what I thought was severe hayfever,sat up many nights unable to breathe for hours on end and sitting in doctors rooms on oxygen,cortisone,singulair,cetrizine,steaming,nebulising,acc 200 etc but funny enough after I got married and ate "unhealthy" my problem ceased to exist completely!

It turns out me starting to drink Coca cola led to me not drinking orange juice or eating much fruit which is what triggers it for me but only after a few hours/days.

So I do sometimes have orange juice and fruit,but very little and spread out over days at a minimum and have been wheezing free for around 10 years now,"unhealthy" coke literally saved my life!
 
What do I have an adverse reactions to (aka avoid like the plague)

Any plant in the nightshade family.
Various species of grass.
Sulphates and Sulphides (SO2)

Long story short, I don't drink, and cough medicine rockets my heart rate up to the 140+ range, so I don't drink that either.

Oh and certain curries... Haven't nailed down what exactly, but pakistani and east african curries mess me up real good.

Bees, pollen, smoke, lactose and (shell)fish, any day all day.

I could live on a flower farm, and drink straight cream with my crayfish dinner...

Genetics is a cruel maiden.
 
Cats.

Feel sorry for the people allergic to shellfish, nothing better than pawns.
 
Lactose. Seasonal rhinitis too.

Lactose is a killer though. A double-thick milkshake goes through me inside of 20 minutes. Never ever again. Cut most lactose out of my diet. Just the occasional cheese. Never in quantities though.

My wife has an intolerance to wheat. That is a difficult one to avoid.
 
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