I’m allergic to nothing besides pollen
No allergies that show up on a simple blood panel.
Except my sinuses are always runny so maybe I should get it looked into.
And my identical twin is allergic to tree nuts so maybe I should be cautious with those.
Toxic coworkers
Main one is capsaicin. Causes inflammation in my joints, and bad digestive issues. But also have sensitivities to citrus and soy, and lactose intolerant.
I honestly think many people get sick from food and ignore it.
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.
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.
Milk, eggs, and cashews. Not lactose intolerant, and I always have to remind people that there’s a difference. I haven’t had an allergic reaction since I was 6 years old, mostly because I always avoid eating out. Too many people to trust!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cats, suddenly as of ~7 years ago. Had three cats at the time, still have two, my allergy doctor is appalled that we “let” them sleep on the bed with us.
Dogs, also suddenly as of ~2 years ago. Pet a dog in the neighborhood, didn’t think anytime of it and later rubbed my face while gaming. My eyeball swelled up painfully. Didn’t make the connection until I pet another dog a week or two later, scratched my back and got a painful rash. We had just installed a fence to get a dog of our own
Sharepoint
Anything Microsoft, really
just variea in severity
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)?
Die Gaze.
We typically call the other one gauze.
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.”
The waterproof 3M Nexcare bandages are pretty similar to Tegaderm, but for smaller cuts
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.
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.
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.
it’s the defunct (except in icelandic) letter thorn
some english speakers are trying to bring it back, some use it as an aesthetic choice
