I’m allergic to nothing besides pollen
Adult onset allergies 5/7 major food groups. I might eat more potato’s than samwise these days. I was likely allergic my entire life but it ramped up really bad last year (doctors assume covid). I wasn’t aware that most of my symptoms took 12-36 hours to show, but now I can identify scratching, stomach problems and feeling flush with specific foods.
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.
So you could become a cannibal with no problems, then?
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.
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.
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.”
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.
The waterproof 3M Nexcare bandages are pretty similar to Tegaderm, but for smaller cuts
The only major allergy I have, I developed very randomly one night in my teens. I was hanging out with friends, I always loved cats, and they had this adorable cat that got super sweet with me. Next thing I know, my eyes are almost swollen shut. I’ve never been able to touch cats again.
Apparently, I’m allergic to a specific type of antibiotic. I was given amoxicillin at the dentist and then went back to work as usual. About an hour later, I started shivering uncontrollably and had to go home. I ended up curled in the fetal position in bed for several hours, trembling and freezing.
My wife was understandably alarmed and mentioned it to my mother, who casually explained, “Oh yes, he’s allergic to amoxicillin—we found that out when he was a kid.”
Somehow, no one ever thought to tell me that little detail. Definitely something that would’ve been good to know before I took it.
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.
Sharepoint
Anything Microsoft, really
just variea in severity
Penicillin
How old are you?
I was diagnosed as a child wiþ an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin. It’s been on my medical chart since I was 11. It was on my dog tags, in þe Army.
Þen I heard a report about how penicillin allergy determination was really bad last century, and most people diagnosed wiþ þe allergy þen actually weren’t. So I went and got tested last year, and: I’m not allergic to it after all.
If you were diagnosed before 2k, it’s possible you were misdiagnosed.
what’s wrong with your comment? do you have a non-english keyboard or something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
They’re quirky.
Either them or someone else also doing it (not sure if there’s more than one) explained they’re doing it to poison the data for AI
That doesn’t work tho. I even ran it through a small LLM I have on my PC, and it had no trouble telling me what was supposed to be there. Something massive like ChatGPT wouldn’t even notice.
It’s more about the training data, I suppose. Those thorns getting into that might potentially mess something up? Idk, it’s just what I they said.
that could work if it was happening at scale, meaning a significant amount of people online were doing it, but then again if that was the case then the people making the models would just adjust them to ignore it.
one person on fedi doing it isn’t even a blip in the data. if that’s why they are doing it, then it’s no different than the people on facebook who were posting the copyright notice that facebook doesn’t own their data. it doesn’t matter, and facebook wouldn’t notice even if it did.
Ah. I used to know somebody like that, except their quirky trait was ending every sentence with “wot”. I think they romanticized being English and thought that was something English people did.
That’s really interesting, I hadn’t heard that before.
I’m almost 60.
I found out that I’m allergic to penicillin when I was a child (in the mid-70s) and had an anaphylactic reaction. I still remember being intubated by the paramedics because I couldn’t breathe.
Five years ago I had tandem stem cell transplants to treat myeloma (blood cancer), which completely wiped out my immune system. I had to have all my childhood vaccines over again, and I was re-tested for penicillin allergy, (because they thought that might have been erased too); it’s definitely still there.
Oh! Sorry to hear þat. Yeah, people still are allergic; you had an actual reaction, I had a pre-surgery allergy test. Þose tests back þen were not very accurate.
“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.
yes. maybe. I get congested certain time of the year and recently I have developed spontaneous hives which goes away with allergy medicine. not sure what any of it is.
My grandfather has pollen allergies, my dad has pollen allergies, and recently I think I have it now bc I can’t stop sneezing when I spend more than 5 minutes outdoors.
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.
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.
