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| Topic Started: Nov 29 2007, 01:36:33 PM (303 Views) | |
| imafranktoo | Nov 29 2007, 01:36:33 PM Post #1 |
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Hey all, I am working with a lady who has allergies like I've never seen before. She can't eat dairy, wheat, glueten, and it made me think how many of us are "allergic" to something. I know it isn't something you go around talking about, but I was curious. For me I'm "allergic" to milk. I can't drink straight milk, it makes me sick to my stomach. Depending on the "dairy" some can give me problems while others don't bother me. Now in regards to the "it all in your head".....liver....yuck!! I'm not "allergic" but it does give me the same feeling like seeing a doggone huntsmen. Oh, and wool...I can't wear wool....found out when I was a kid and was rolling around on my aunts wool rug that I was allergic. Not fun! Anyone willing to reveal? Jennifer |
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| Dev | Nov 29 2007, 01:58:35 PM Post #2 |
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Like to say that I'm allergic to green beans because I HATE them (and I actually was allergic to them when I was a baby). But I'm really only allergic to hazelnuts and dust. When we were moving house, I felt AWFUL because of all the dust! |
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| incognito | Nov 29 2007, 02:05:11 PM Post #3 |
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I'm allergic to bee stings. And I have had allergic reactions to shellfish twice in almost 40 years where I got puffy eyes and a rash. This is interesting about the bee stings. I have to carry a bee sting kit with me at all times because if I get stung I can go into anaphalactic (spelling?) shock and die. In the States, it was no big deal to get a prescription to get a few so I had one and a backup. Last week I went to my doc to get my prescription filled here for the first time b/c my bee sting kits from the States had expired. Well, my GP had to call Medicare and get special permission to write a special script because Medicare does subsidise the cost but they are expensive. I was kind of in a panic for a few minutes while waiting for approval thinking that if I cannot get the kits, I could DIE if I get stung. Thankfully I was able to get the kit -- just one -- and it cost me $30 instead of the $100 full price. But really, I didn't care about the discount - I just wanted to get the medicine. Now, if I had asked for antidepressants or ulcer medicine or something else, they would have written the script no problem. Go figure. :headscratch: |
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| Jaffas | Nov 29 2007, 03:42:54 PM Post #4 |
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I'm not allergic to anything really - just get hey-fever. I'm intollerant to dairy and wheat/gluten makes me sleepy. REALLY sleepy. Dairy just sucks all-round. Small amounts give me a blocked nose for a week after I've eaten the offending product, and if I actually drank a glass of cows milk, within 1/2 hour I'd have cramps, and be on the floor. The worst part for me and Marty is the sugar. We aren't intollerant or allergic.. we're addicted. If we start, we can't stop. So, our diet doesn't include sugar either, but we just can't help but cheat on that one. At very least, we don't crave it quite as much anymore. Here's an excersise in futility - try finding a product that you can eat without cooking in a supermarket that has NO sugar/glucose/fructose ..ose.. lol We found a packet of museli bars - wooo! I bet there's still something naughty about them, I'm not 100% convinced yet.  Oh, Marty and I are allergic to cats - we get puffy and watery eyes - but after about a week, it all calms down and we get no more symptoms! I'd never heard of anyone else having this until after I met Marty, by the way!! hehe. Manda & Marty |
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| melvan | Nov 29 2007, 03:43:21 PM Post #5 |
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Well...I thought I was allergic to peanuts, and I was for a while, but now it appears that I'm not. Soy, quite probably. It's in everything :arrgh: Wasps yes, no idea about bees. For me that's about it. |
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| minx | Nov 29 2007, 04:50:25 PM Post #6 |
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I have no known allergies, but when I first got here i had the WORST time. I arrived in July and we were staying in a rental. I had hundreds of mosquito bites, and I swelled up so bad, I looked like a chipmunk. My other half said it looked like someone had stuck an airhose up my butt. (Sad, but true!) :p: I had eye infections, and intestinal problems...it just never ended. The ladies at the pharmacy suggested that I was allergic to Australia. :eek: I can laugh about it now, but at the time... :waah: |
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| shylady | Nov 29 2007, 04:53:34 PM Post #7 |
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I've considered going back to Med School to become an Immunologist/Allergist for years, now, it's a fascinating/frustrating field. People can develop (or outgrow!) an allergy, in a heartbeat! It's such a wierd immunological response, and/BUT there's a "threshhold," a certain amount of an allergen, that your body will tolerate, which depends on your STRESS level, as well... When/if you're under stress, your body will be more "allergic." Cortisol. Adrenal function. The body can only cope with a certain amount, and it tells you when there's an overload... :smash: I carried a bee-sting kit in the US, had anaphylaxis a couple times, and was worried when I moved to Oz, because riding motorcycle you're SURE to get stung, and thought the bees/wasps etc might be more venomous. I've had 3-4 stings, but only had the local reaction, nothing systemic. I'd had anaphylaxis from shellfish(iodine), lobster, shrimp, etc when I was in the US.. Just COOKING a Maine lobster made me swell up, from the steam... Huh! My brother-in-law here is a "crayfisherman," and drops off these giant lobsters this time of year, that can crawl out of a 5-gallon bucket, I can cook and eat them daily, NO ALLERGY... and all the prawns I can eat! I'm in Heaven. I AM still allergic to wool, and feather pillows, and many perfumes/soaps/scents. My older son had constant ear-aches, from 6 months to 15 months, until I stopped everything with cow's milk, and any wheat product. His immune system got a rest, and by the time he started Kindergarten, he could eat anything. The Pediatric Allergist we saw said probably 80% of pre-school age children are allergic to cow's milk. I started milking goats, and making my own butter and cheese. It was simpler and cheaper than having tubes put in his ears, and tonsils and adenoids out. I couldn't put him through surgeries, I wanted to eliminate the cause, and I DID. It's scary that there's all these kids out there dying with peanut allergies, a generation or 2 ago, EVERYONE ate peanuts, and nothing happened! Same with the latex allergies :eek: I know it's an immune-response, and I know STRESS lowers the threshhold. Sermon over :hugs: |
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| shylady | Nov 29 2007, 04:58:02 PM Post #8 |
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yeah, no kidding... This time last year minx was giving me hints how to deal with the frickin MOZZIES!!! Worse than any bee-sting, for swelling, and they love me, too! :eek: This year, they seem to have lost interest in me.... :headscratch: |
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| rhimb | Nov 29 2007, 05:43:15 PM Post #9 |
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Maybe those mozzies just like fresh blood?? Although, I don't think I've been bit at all since I've been here... I have a personal repellant named Steve, and they like him a lot more than me!
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| shylady | Nov 29 2007, 07:01:17 PM Post #10 |
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:rollin: :rofl: That's exactly what Greg says too, Rhianna :flip: They don't bite HIM, either!!! :moon: |
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| Dev | Nov 29 2007, 10:25:32 PM Post #11 |
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I wouldn't say that I'm allergic to bug bites, but I definitely have more of a reaction to them now. This is awful, but when I first moved out of my parents' house (with my now ex-fiance and his mate), our apartment was DISGUSTING (thanks to his mate) and completely infested with fleas (thanks to his mates feral cat). They didn't bite them at all, but fed on me CONSTANTLY! We're talking MONTHS of constant flea bites, to the point where I was almost anemic. Now I get a pretty big mark on my skin whenever I get a bug bite. Currently have about 7 mozzie bites from the other morning when I had to repair the back fence so Zhaan would stop visiting the dog next door! :(( |
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| JenbeTas | Nov 29 2007, 10:43:59 PM Post #12 |
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I just recently had tests done to confirm or rule out lactose and gluten intolerance. Both came back negative but my stomach still bloats every night to the size of about a six month preggers woman....I'm talking to where it's hard to breath. It does seem though, regardless of what the tests say that eating breads, pastas and instant coffee (weird, I know) will do it every time and that's when I feel the most miserable. Then some days, it doesn't matter what I put into my stomach, I still bloat. The only sure way to prevent it is to eat nothing at all. I walk heaps for exercise but the more I walk, the worse it gets. :headscratch: I have no idea if it's a food allergy or not but it has to be something! Sounds like wheat allergy to me but who knows. |
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| Jaffas | Nov 29 2007, 10:59:08 PM Post #13 |
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I wish you were in Melbourne, I'd recommend a great doctor and nautropath who can tell you exactly what's going on.
I bloat huge, too, if I eat something I shouldn't. It's really quite embarrasing. There's only one type of instant coffee that doctor recommends if you don't want any wheat - Nescafe Gold. Otherwise she said "drip" coffee is fine, too.
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| JenbeTas | Nov 29 2007, 11:04:33 PM Post #14 |
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Melbourne is definately not hard for me to get to and no one here seems to be able to figure it out. Feel free to PM me! I'm MISERABLE! |
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| TerritorianTori | Nov 30 2007, 12:36:19 AM Post #15 |
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I'm lactose intolerant (hense my :lurve: of Cool Whip). Straight milk and yoghurt are the worst. I can do ice cream OK in small doses. But I cannot STAND the soy alternatives. Yuk yuk yuk. And I've got an allergy to any earrings that aren't at least 18 carat gold. After awhile, they'll itch like crazy. |
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| Jaffas | Nov 30 2007, 01:13:28 AM Post #16 |
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Wait! Just double-checked the coffee suggestion!! lol It's Mocchona Classic to avoid traces of wheat. (I don't drink coffee, so I apologise for getting it wrong!)Today I saw a lecture about nutrition and behaviour - and it has spurred me on to get more serious with this diet. I've *had it* with fuzzy thinking, foggy brain, brain-dead-ness. AND the worst part is that I *know* how it feels NOT to feel this way! It's time to get serious again. I will PM you, Jenn! I'm going to make the trip to Victoria soon, too and want to see her again - it's just that she really needs a 4-6 month commitment to achieve the results. But I can tell you, it's worth it. PS: Tors - I highly recommend Oat Milk or Rice Milk instead of Soy (which the lecture was saying is a highly reactive food, and not recommended for ANYONE to consume). I don't know how my doctor would feel about Oat Milk, but personally, I love it, and I get no negative effects from it at all. PPS: :rollin: I have the YouTube link to the lecture if anyone would like to check it out. Nutrition & Behavior: A Lecture by Russell Blaylock, MD |
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| Dev | Nov 30 2007, 07:15:50 AM Post #17 |
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Oohhh! I forgot about that! I'm actually allergic to gold. All I can wear is straight silver or platinum. (Darn!)
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| Rissaroo | Nov 30 2007, 12:02:32 PM Post #18 |
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I don't think I have any allergies or anything like that, so I guess I'm lucky! :goodonya: I do tend to have sneezing fits occasionally where I'll sneeze seven or eight times in a row. And when I was younger it seemed that every morning without fail I would wake up and have one of those sneezing fits, sometimes with more than ten sneezes! My family used to tease me and say I was "allergic to mornings." It went away sometime in high school though. |
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| shylady | Nov 30 2007, 12:13:00 PM Post #19 |
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I react to anything less than 18 carat gold, too. It's pretty rare to have an actual allergy to pure gold, it's usually to the nickel it's mixed with to make 9, 10 or 14 carat. It makes it harder and more durable, but causes lots of nickel allergies. Within an hour my ears will itch like crazy and get weepy. Same with necklaces or rings. I just tell my husband my body has expensive taste, and I need the "real" stuff! :lurve: |
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| SanDiablo | Nov 30 2007, 01:57:15 PM Post #20 |
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For those of you who have trouble with milk, you might want to try Lactose-Free milk. In the US it is called Lactaid in the fridge, here you can only get it in the long-life milk section. (Why do Americans have trouble with box milk? I think it is awesome!!) It is REAL milk, just treated with an enzyme that breaks the bond of the lactose sugar molecule. Some people think it tastes a little sweet, but I find it better than soy or rice milk. It is a life saver for coffee, cereal, or chocolate cake. I'm like Tors...I can handle small amounts of ice cream...and I can eat cheese till the cows come home (and make more cheese!), but a glass of milk or yogurt will make me bloat up and fart for days...and not polite little farts, either. |
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