Quick curiosity question about allergies

[FormerCallingCardRep]

How common is it that children have the same allergies as the parents?

Both of my daughters are like me and allergic to bee stings.

[PepperElf]

it can happen. it's not a guarantee however

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Allergi...ory?id=4522443

http://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/1034...ergies_get_the

[Teskeria]

Sometimes allergies run in a family. although not all members have it. A couple of my cousins, and aunt, my brother and one of my daughters are all allergic to penicillin. My other daughter and I are allergic to shellfish. I am allergic to mushrooms as well. Most of the rest of my relatives have no allergies (big families. my mother's generation averaged 5 kids per)

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Little Bits and I both now react the same to bee stings. They perscribed for her last night her first epipen. Always before, including when she got stung a few months ago on vacation, she would swell and have a few hives. Tho oldest daughter just gets hives when she gets stung.

[WoodenSunshine]

I share at least one allergy with my biological mother. We're both sensitive to adhesive. Then again, I never took what she told me at face value

My father was allergic to chocolate and cats for the longest time, but I've never had issues with either.

So, it depends?

[Food Lady]

Chocolate and cats? You have nothing left to make you feel better.

[PepperElf]

Little Bits and I both now react the same to bee stings. They perscribed for her last night her first epipen. Always before, including when she got stung a few months ago on vacation, she would swell and have a few hives. Tho oldest daughter just gets hives when she gets stung.

in the first article i linked to, it suggested that the genetics part that's passed on is the tendency to be allergic, and that exposure is what actually triggers it into an actual allergy.

although that might be outdated info since it was written in 08

[Mishi]

Both of my parents have problems with morphine-derivatives, and I'm allergic to codeine (as in ER visit type allergic, not tummy pains 'allergic'). I also seem to have inherited a nickel allergy from my mother's side of the family.

[XCashier]

Chocolate and cats? You have nothing left to make you feel better.

There's always booze...

[fireheart]

I seem to have inherited my dad's hayfever (and possibly nasal problems). Thankfully both of us are triggered more by pollen and nature, rather than by cats.

[Sakka]

My allergies:
Cats/Dogs
chocolate
hayfever/dust/pollen
scents (asthma trigger)
nuts (peanuts/walnuts/almonds/etc)


Dad's allergies:
shellfish
smoke
hayfever/dust/pollen

Mom's allergies:
hayfever/dust/pollen

Brother's allergies:
hayfever/dust/pollen


Dad is incredibly allergic to shellfish, while my brother and I love it.
For all of us, most reactions can be dealt with with any over the counter anti-histamine.
The ones that need a hospital visit is dad for shellfish and me for the chocolate/nut reaction(1) or if the asthma goes off in such a way that the emergency meds don't work.




1)If I can't get the irritant out of my system quickly enough, or at least diluted to the point my body can handle it. ... And that still hurts, a lot.

[WoodenSunshine]

Chocolate and cats? You have nothing left to make you feel better.

This is absolutely terrible to admit, but I used to giggle when my dad would eat chocolate. It wasn't that bad of an allergy. He'd just sneeze...a lot

[crazylegs]

A (VERY) quick check on CINAHL shows that while there may be evidence to suggest inheritability for allergies it appears the process either
a) Isn't fully understood
b) The specific alleles haven't been identified as yet.

Because said interrogation of the database lasted about 5 minutes I reserve the right to be horribly wrong and as such it shouldn't form the basis of any medical decision making

[Geek King]

A (VERY) quick check on CINAHL shows that while there may be evidence to suggest inheritability for allergies it appears the process either
a) Isn't fully understood
b) The specific alleles haven't been identified as yet.

Very much this. Much like hair color or eye color, allergies seem to sometimes be inherited, but it is not a certain thing. I learned a bit about it from a doctor because both my father and sister are allergic to citrus in such a way that it causes them physical pain. It seems to have missed me, even though most of my physical genetics seem to have followed with my dad (hair & eye color, build, ect.).

You can also have a situation much like a red haired child born to two brown-haired parents, and you can have allergies to things neither parent are allergic to, but are likely recessive genes.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

My maternal grandfather and my mother are both allergic to kiwi. For him, it's a mild allergy, while for her it can be deadly.
So far, I've been lucky in that I'm not allergic to kiwi myself, and I hope it stays that way because I love to eat kiwi.

I do share an allergy with my brother, though.
It's for a type of antibiotic that we both had to take as kids for throat infections (little brat caught it first and then passed it on to me...) called Pediazole. We both had a pretty severe reaction to it.

On the one hand, the allergic reaction sucked, but on the other hand it's nice to know that I never have to take it again. That stuff tastes like crap!