To prevent a derail on a topic I have a great many feelings about: Here's a thread to talk about allergies and stuff! This is also a good spot to ask people about Allergy Related Things and stuff I guess! I'm open to any and all questions about Celiac Disease, wheat allergies, and all sorts of shit. I think I was talking about PPM and stuff in the other thread? And cross contamination in lesser known / respected allergens?
I appear to have a low-grade wheat allergy which manifests in bloating, digestive distress, and occasionally throwing up from it. It was much worse, though, when I was on metformin for diabetes; now that I'm using insulin shots instead, it's gone down. Metformin is well known to irritate the digestive tract so I guess it's not surprising that it made it worse.
I feel you man. It's also worth looking in to if Metformin has any wheat in it or if it's produced in a facility that makes medicines with wheat because that is a thing that actually happens and is endlessly infuriating for me. I've found out that my thyroid medicine may have wheat in it and that's... annoying I know I get overlap of my wheat allergy and my celiac (When glutened I don't just have a terrible time, I have a terrible time with blood) and also IBS came along for the ride and let's be real my intestines are trying to kill me.
mildly lactose intolerent but enough that medicine made with lactose as a filler irritates me into bad stomach pains. Pills have some awful fuckers going on sometimes.
But I mean that might have the cause of my digestive track REALLY hating the way I treat it which would probably explain why starchy food, especially wheat is currently also not really fun
I got tested and I'm apparently allergic to cats. Admittedly my tests were like three years ago, though. That didn't stop me from keeping my current cat and then also getting another cat. I love cats.
I used to have the absolute worst hayfever, but I somehow managed to grow out of it. I remain allergic to dust and cats, but Penny's too cute to give up. My SO is allergic to the whole world, it seems at times - dust, dander, several types of pollen, and more. Poor thing spends an awful lot of time sneezing. He had bloodwork done for food allergies and forwarded me a full three column page of results; I asked if this was what he was tested for, and he replied that it was what he was supposed to avoid. After three months he went back for more bloodwork, where he discovered that his histamine level was pretty well unchanged, so the doctors went . So it's back to the drawing board there. (The aforementioned bloodwork is how I discovered that a celery allergy can put you into anaphylactic shock.)
saaaaame, though I think I'm only allergic to one? or I was when I was little, or maybe not allergic at all but just had a bad reaction to it. I really don't know. might have been amoxicillin?
i'm severely allergic to a lot of antibiotics, including a lot of stuff in the cillin family (biggest reaction was to amoxicillin as a kid, but even some green bread molds will trigger itchiness and hives sometimes) erythromyacin, pediazol (which they gave me as a kid when i couldn't take other stuff, ended badly) uhhh let's see, i can't take anything in the zoloft/prozac family, and no decongestants. i also get hayfever year round somehow (nature doesn't like me i think), so i'm constantly on some level of snuffly/throat scratchy and i can't take decongestants for it. i've also got mild lactose issues. i think that's it. oh wait! i'm extremely sensitive to caffiene. one cup of regular coffee/tea/soda always has me bouncing off the walls and then gives me horrible stomach cramps, and it's not the acid because oj is fine. edit: the caffeine thing is actually a bit of a funny story, i used to not be nearly as caffeine sensitive and even drank double espressos on a semi regular basis, and then one night in college i went to IHOP with my friends to study for midterms. IHOP will give you unlimited coffee refills if you buy one cup. so, like a dumbass, i decided to see how much coffee i could drink. i got through like four full pots (and these pots were pretty big, they could hold 9-10 full cups) before we left. i was up the whole night and had the most godawful stomach cramps all night. after that every time i have caffeine (even too much dark chocolate) i get cramps. pretty sure i broke something, lol. although i just stay away from caffeine then i'm fine! do you know how many caffeine free sodas there are now? it's pretty wild. anyways this got long so i'll hush now.
I'm allergic to bananas, which sucks, because I like bananas. So every once in a while I'll eat a little bite of a banana and just... Deal with the weird tingly mouth, because I'm terrible to myself. I'm also allergic to wintergreen, which also sucks, because a lot of icy hot type things have wintergreen oil in them and if I'm not careful to read the label before I use them it's a... Bad time. @Deresto I have that exact thing wrt to caffeine sensitivity, I used to drink energy drinks on a daily basis and then all of a sudden, any amount of caffeine suddenly started making me nauseous, lightheaded, jittery, etc. No idea what caused it.
I'm not allergic to anything that I know of, but over the past few years I've lost a bit of my lactose tolerance, which is really annoying because I liked milk, and also milk is in a lot of stuff. Fortunately I can still eat cheese fine, or I might have given up on food altogether.
Yeah... Bloodwork for food allergies is not how it works really... Sure, you can get an idea of what you might be allergic to, but in an ideal world you then have a Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Food-Challenge to see if you actually react to the food. Because bloodwork levels don't really correlate with levels of allergy.
Oh MAN I know that feel, the Celiac Disease killed my ability to digest milk. However, if you can spring for it, Lactaid has an actual milk they sell (Not just a pill to take before drinking milk) that is fucking wonderful and tastes like milk (just a little sweeter). Unlike most lactose free milks / plant milks it actually has the uh... consistency I guess... of milk. From what I've read, the reason cheese is ok for me is because a lot of the lactose gets broken down. The more 'raw' a cheese is the less likely I can handle it, this also means that frozen custard is your friend if you want ice cream. Re: Medicines. I don't have any medicinal 'allergies' out-right, other than ones that contain wheat, but I do have negative reactions that can be considered allergies (and I just flat out call it an allergy to prevent it from happening again). Prednisone (which is used in allergic reactions hilariously enough) causes me to swing WILDLY into rage and then into a full mania spiral. My S/O is a fucking saint for dealing with me while I was on that shit, literally throwing toddler tantrums at the drop of a hat. I'd been given it because I reacted severely to a wasp sting and had shoved SO MUCH BENEDRYL in myself because FEAR OF DEATH before I got to the hospital. Boy howdy it did help but also it made me FLIP MY GODDAMNED LID so badly that no, never again. The shitty part is, I had to take a whole 'pack' of it because you can't just take one pill you have to be weaned off of it.
I'm allergic to nickel, so goodbye cheap jewelry and glasses frames! :'D Foodwise, maaaaaybe shellfish? V mild if so, I just get nauseous and tired after eating it so I've stopped trying.
Really? Each of the entries had a number from 1-100 that he was told correlate to level of severity. (Plums were pretty high up there, he forgot, and wound up reacting shortly afterwards.) Good to know, though; I'll pass it on.
When they test your bloodwork they introduce the allergen to see if your antibodies react. Food challenges are incredibly dangerous I would think! I know for Celiac they do run a blood test, while you're still eating gluten, to see if the antibody is running around in your system but I also know Celiac is a bit different than a traditional allergy (being an over-arcing disease). They also have genetic tests for Celiac but those are fucking ridiculously expensive.
Nope, actually not! On the day the allergen is introduced they start with tiny, tiny amounts, and record every single reaction very carefully. There's a level of reaction that's acceptable, and a level that's not, and if you go beyond the acceptable level the test is stopped. Also, they're done in a hospital setting, so if something does go horribly wrong (and if there's any indication that an anaphylactic shock might be a possibility you're not tested in the first place, just declared allergic). Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Food-Challenges (DBPCFC) are actually the golden standard for determining whether someone has a food allergy :) In the database I used for my research (two different ones, for two different research projects) we had kids that had a high level (101) in their bloodwork, and then tested negatively on the DBPCFC. The bloodlevels of IgE (that's what tested) say something about the sensitivity that exists in your body, but not about the clinical reactivity i.e. the actual symptoms that you experience if you eat a food.
