I’m allergic to nothing besides pollen
I’m allergic to milk. Every time I tell people this, they think I mean lactose intolerant, and I have to clarify that I’m actually not an idiot
Iirc the allergy to “milk” is actually to the cow/other animal milk protein
Yeah I think it’s specifically casein in my case
Same. Is surprising how people assume that given milk allergy is still one of the more common allergies.
Alpha gal. It’s a carbohydrate found in all mammal meat and products, save for humans and apes. Oh, also, you know “natural flavors?” So wonderfully vague. Most of the time, that means “carrageenan,” which also contains alpha gal.
You get the allergy from a Lone Star tick bite, as if Lyme disease wasn’t bad enough. Wear pants while hiking.
I was reading your first couple sentences and was gonna ask “did you get a tick bite”
Luckily, it can go away eventually! I hope it does for you.
So you could become a cannibal with no problems, then?
Bandage adhesive. It’s very manageable, I just start itching after a while.
(Bandage? Band-aid? Adhesive bandage (making the thing I’m allergic to “adhesive bandage adhesive”?)? Not a native speaker)
You’re good! Bandage is the “correct” term, band-aid is a brand but commonly used on other brands as well. If you kept it to the first half I would have had no idea English isn’t your first language
Huh, interesting. So how do you differentiate between this and this? Because to me those are two entirely different things and they’re called different things in German. If I said “I need a bandage for my hand”, how do you know which one I need (other than by looking at my hand to see if it’s just a paper cut or if I’m about to die from blood loss, of course)?
We typically call the other one gauze.
Die Gaze.
I have that, too. Recently had a medical issue that was essentially a month-long open wound that obviously needed to be dressed the whole time. Absolutely brutal on the skin.
Tegaderm is less bad, I learned. Significantly more expensive but absolutely worth it for that situation. Showed up to the doctor with that on and was told “absolute overkill, stop using that” and then when I showed up the next time after following their instructions and using large Band-aids they took one look at my back and said “you should switch back to Tegaderm.”
The waterproof 3M Nexcare bandages are pretty similar to Tegaderm, but for smaller cuts
You can get rolls of the stuff that you cut to size too. Its amazing badaids suck anyway. Basically change your bandage any time you see a sink compared to go swimming in the ocean with tegaderm and still keep using the same one.
“Fragrances.”
Boy do I ever wish ingredients lists would specify what fragrances they’re using, then I’d be able to learn which scented products are okay for me to use without testing them individually.
It’s very mild but fuck is it ever inescapable. Everything I use can be hypoallergenic if I put in the effort but take one step into any building other than my home and it’s being cleaned with scented cleaning products and pumped full of air fresheners on top of that.
Also I’ve got seasonal allergies that are stronger than my fragrance one(s), so the outdoors often doesn’t function as an escape, either.
Scents are polutants. I hate them. So funny that some are called air fresheners.
I recently learned that I’m allergic to mosquito bites, it turns out it’s not normal for them to swell up to an inch in a half.
for me it depends on the type of mosquito but the other day I got attacked by them while doing some photography and I had like 1-inch sized bumps all over my arms. Fun times.
Most other times they don’t get nearly as bad tho.
Nut allergy.
Booooo. That’s a rough one to deal with.
I’m allergic to the sort of adhesive tape they use to attach IVs and such. They always use it anyway and I end up with annoying wounds because of it.
Also, while not technically an allergy, if I were to be administered succinylcholine, it would cause malignant hyperthermia, rhabdomyolysis, acidosis, and cardiac arrest due to a genetic disorder. Luckily I didn’t have to find out the hard way.
Besides being allergic to basically every seasonal allergen, I’m also allergic to fish. Not shellfish, regular fish. It sucks because it didn’t develop until my 20s.
Sharepoint
Anything Microsoft, really
just variea in severity
As a kid, I was allergic to everything. And lactose intolerant. Grass, trees, pollen, cats, some dogs, my allergy test had me wanting to scratch my back on the stucco walls.
I hit maybe 20 and all of it went away. I can roll in grass and dandelions and leaves, I can rub cats on my face (thank gawd), I eat tons of cheese. It’s amazing.
I’m happy for you. It usually happens the other way around.
Thank you! I am very thankful and do not take it for granted. I met my first cat when I was 16 or so, and my eyes swelled up to almost closed. I did not stop rubbing my face on that cat every time I went over, though. I was so astounded that cats just exist.
Yes, but I don’t know what. There’s a week in mid-Spring and a week in early Autumn (that we just passed) when I have to wear a mask outside.
Pollen? Fall could be grasses or conifers, deciduous in þe spring.
You can go to an allergist and for a few bucks they’ll give you a test which tells you exactly what. Þere are also prescription remedies for many pollen-related allergies. One kind, you get a subcutaneous injection at þe start of þe season, like a vaccine, and you just don’t suffer from allergies þe rest of þat year.
Or, if a mask works for you, þat’s cool, too.
None that I’m presently aware of.
Although as a young kid, I used to claim to have bee allergy, as I simply thought anything I didn’t like would make it an “allergy.”
Most plants, mold, mildew, cockroaches, milk, and nickel are the ones I can think of. Was funny when I got a prick test, they were training someone, so they were sorta happy I was so reactive to so many things because it meant they got to show how to rate the severity of all the dozens of bumps.
Mold. It’s monsoon season here, on a good day I can feel the rain coming (due to spores lifted up and transported by wind before the rain arrives here). In that case I directly pop an antihistamine. On bad days I’m too late with that, which results in itchy eyes (mostly), sneezing, snotting, etc. Monsoon season is bad, rest of the year I have little issues unless I walk into a mold infested place.
Cats, suddenly as of ~7 years ago. Had three cats at the time, still have two, my allergy doctor is appalled that we “let” them sleep on the bed with us.
Dogs, also suddenly as of ~2 years ago. Pet a dog in the neighborhood, didn’t think anytime of it and later rubbed my face while gaming. My eyeball swelled up painfully. Didn’t make the connection until I pet another dog a week or two later, scratched my back and got a painful rash. We had just installed a fence to get a dog of our own
