The overly-sanitized-world theory makes a lot of sense. People carry antibacterial gel everywhere they go. Look at those crazy TV commercials that show kids about to touch something and suddenly it's covered with germs (it's an animation, but you get the idea). There are situations when you do have to be careful about spreading disease, but we've gotten paranoid.
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I have an acquaintance who's allergic to chicken; she has to be very careful when ordering vegie soups to ask if they're made with a chicken stock. It's a gamble; the waiter finds out it's chicken free, the waiter says it's chicken free and it isn't, the kitchen doesn't know what's in it at all because it comes pre-made, or she just ends-up picking something else."If anyone wants this old box containing the broken bits of my former faith in humanity, I'll take your best offer now. You may be able to salvage a few of em' for parts..... " - Quote by Argabarga
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A friend has hell when she goes to the hospital with her bad back because she has NSAID allergy. Last time it took about 7 hours on ward before they stopped offering her Ibuprofen!I am so SO glad I was not present for this. There would have been an unpleasant duct tape incident. - Joi
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Quoth Gizmo View PostA friend has hell when she goes to the hospital with her bad back because she has NSAID allergy. Last time it took about 7 hours on ward before they stopped offering her Ibuprofen!EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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Quoth AccountingDrone View PostI am not allergic to codeine or naprosin but they are as effective as an M&M without the chocolate.
After a recent surgery, my mum spoke to a pharmacist about why she didn't want codeine and was told that there's a percentage of the population that can't properly metabolise codeine.Arp happens!
Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
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Quoth CoffeeMonkey View PostOne had the usual suspects: wheat, eggs, milk, soy, nuts, etc. And then a whole bunch of other stuff, too, like various kinds of meat (I didn't know at the time one could be allergic to meat, either.) and a whole ton of different vegetables and fruit. The list of things he could eat was smaller than what he couldn't.
Quoth CoffeeMonkey View PostAt this point, the only thing I will be surprised at would be an allergy to rice. Basically since rice is just about the most benign food ever. And if someone told me that they were allergic to rice, I would still BELIEVE them. I would just be surprised.
Quoth Victory Sabre View PostAs someone who is allergic to nothing known, I can never fully understand allergies. It does amaze me what people can be allergic to.
Quoth Kittish View PostAre allergies really becoming as much more prevalent as they seem to becoming, or is it just that you just didn't hear about it before the internet? Because if they really are becoming so much more common... I have to ask myself why?
"Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths....
Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw shit!"
You can check out his full (and highly hilarious) rant on the subject here.
Quoth mathnerd View PostI have a friend who's allergic to beer.
Quoth LillFilly View PostI have an acquaintance who's allergic to chicken; she has to be very careful when ordering vegie soups to ask if they're made with a chicken stock. It's a gamble; the waiter finds out it's chicken free, the waiter says it's chicken free and it isn't, the kitchen doesn't know what's in it at all because it comes pre-made, or she just ends-up picking something else.Last edited by Jester; 07-27-2014, 10:49 AM.
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As I understand it (because I paid attention in Biology class), a person can be allergic to just about anything natural or man-made (even rocks, like those in your yard).
Latex is synthetic, yet I know many medical professionals allergic to it.
Tomatoes are natural, but one of the most common allergies.
I even heard about one person allergic to metal (aluminum I think). Not deadly allergic, but would break out in a rash if touching something made of it for a while. (it was on TLC or Discovery, or something along those lines).
Anything and everything can be a potential allergen.I might be crazy, but I'm not Insane.
What? You don't play with flamethrowers on the weekends? You are strange.
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My most frustrating allergy is vanilla. I love to bake so I don't miss out but it means when we have a baking day at work ( when I worked at McDonald's we would bring in baked goods on what we knew would be insane nights) I could only eat what I brought in.
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Quoth Kittish View PostAre allergies really becoming as much more prevalent as they seem to becoming...What are we doing/ingesting/exposing ourselves to that's triggering all of the exaggerated immune system response?Quoth TheSHAD0W View PostThere's a theory that the immune system is designed to, among other things, attack parasites; and that, since we've eliminated most parasites from modern society, this is resulting in the immune system becoming hyperactive and responding to proteins that really shouldn't count as allergens.Quoth Dreamstalker View PostI read that it's due to insulating the kidlings from just about everything. Nobody gets to play in the dirt anymore, a developing immune system doesn't have anything to exercise itself with and so gets twitchy with common stuff.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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Quoth Seshat View PostAmong the things I am histamine-allergic to (ie, true allergy, ie, the OMZOG I CAN DIE) .... is chicken.
Also lettuce. Yes, plain old iceberg lettuce. The stuff that's almost nothing but chlorophyll and water and fibre.
Not only am I allergic to them, but they're sufficiently common allergies that the allergen test kit includes them!
When it arrived, it had lettuce and the hot patty/chicken breast/whatever was sitting on it, driving lettuce "stuff" into both the bread and the patty.
He'd told them "no lettuce" and that he was allergic to it when he ordered. So he repeated that and told them they'd have to remake it from scratch as both the neat and the bread were now contaminated.
After a bit they brought back the "new" sandwich. Shortly thereafter he was on his way to the hospital because all they'd done was pull the lettuce, wait a bit and bring it back.
He sued and won. and got a fair bit of money, not that that made up for the trip to the hospital and all the other "fun".
That was back in the early 80s, I think. I suspect it was one of the cases that got across to restaurants that when someone says they are allergic, you *don't* play games, you treat it as real and serious.
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Quoth Gilhelmi View PostLatex is synthetic, yet I know many medical professionals allergic to it.
I even heard about one person allergic to metal (aluminum I think). Not deadly allergic, but would break out in a rash if touching something made of it for a while. (it was on TLC or Discovery, or something along those lines).
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I'm allergic to all meats (annoying as hell), anything in the cabbage family, am lactose intolerant, and need a low protein diet. My daughter has the same food allergies plus a mild peanut allergy.
I'm severely allergic to the outdoors. If it polinates it will me me sneeze. Some trees make my eyes swell shut. Wool and most laundry detergent makes me break out in hives.
Best part? Anti-histamine allergy. Claritin, Aerius, Benadryl you name it. Bam hospital trip. Gravol made me seize and stopped my heart when I was 2. That doesn't even scratch the surfaces of the drug allergies, but that's a whole new ball game.
Also: I tarnish silver almost instantly and can precipitate copper out of water
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Quoth Gilhelmi View PostI even heard about one person allergic to metal (aluminum I think). Not deadly allergic, but would break out in a rash if touching something made of it for a while.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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