The only major allergy I have, I developed very randomly one night in my teens. I was hanging out with friends, I always loved cats, and they had this adorable cat that got super sweet with me. Next thing I know, my eyes are almost swollen shut. I've never been able to touch cats again.
Adult onset allergies 5/7 major food groups. I might eat more potato's than samwise these days. I was likely allergic my entire life but it ramped up really bad last year (doctors assume covid). I wasn't aware that most of my symptoms took 12-36 hours to show, but now I can identify scratching, stomach problems and feeling flush with specific foods.
Lots of things. The main one is dust mites. Any clothes that I have in my closet or drawers that I haven't worn for a while will make me sneeze uncontrollably for an hour if I pick them up. Same if I get a spare sheet from the linen closet, if it's been in there for months, it will set me off. When I vacuum the house, I need to use one of those hypoallergenic HEPA vacuum filters. Dust mites are everywhere all the time, no matter how well you clean your house. Technically it is the shedded and disintegrated shells of dead dust mites that people are allergic to, it accumulates over time in places the mites live.
Other than that, I'm also quite badly allergic to black mold, and have a reaction to pollen and grass seeds.
I've never taken a proper allergy test, I've probably got others I don't even know about.
Apparently, I’m allergic to a specific type of antibiotic. I was given amoxicillin at the dentist and then went back to work as usual. About an hour later, I started shivering uncontrollably and had to go home. I ended up curled in the fetal position in bed for several hours, trembling and freezing.
My wife was understandably alarmed and mentioned it to my mother, who casually explained, “Oh yes, he’s allergic to amoxicillin—we found that out when he was a kid.”
Somehow, no one ever thought to tell me that little detail. Definitely something that would’ve been good to know before I took it.
I think I'm lactose intolerant. I eat some ice cream and I notice I just balloon up easily and going the bathroom back and forth. I just get so many false flags from my digestive system and I end up passing gas a lot just by having most things dairy.
I get mild symptoms at the begging of spring and fall, so i assume some type of mold but idk
Seasonal; not sure what, though. Oddly, it shows up around October and November, sometimes into December.
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.
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.
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.
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
Same. Is surprising how people assume that given milk allergy is still one of the more common allergies.
Iirc the allergy to "milk" is actually to the cow/other animal milk protein
Yeah I think it's specifically casein in my case
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.
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.
So you could become a cannibal with no problems, then?
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.
Toxic coworkers
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.
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.
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.
Sharepoint
Anything Microsoft, really
just variea in severity
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!
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
“Fragrances.”
Boy do I ever wish ingredients lists would specify what fragrances they’re using, then I’d be able to learn which scented products are okay for me to use without testing them individually.
It’s very mild but fuck is it ever inescapable. Everything I use can be hypoallergenic if I put in the effort but take one step into any building other than my home and it’s being cleaned with scented cleaning products and pumped full of air fresheners on top of that.
Also I’ve got seasonal allergies that are stronger than my fragrance one(s), so the outdoors often doesn’t function as an escape, either.
Scents are polutants. I hate them. So funny that some are called air fresheners.
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.
Oh! Sorry to hear þat. Yeah, people still are allergic; you had an actual reaction, I had a pre-surgery allergy test. Þose tests back þen were not very accurate.
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.
Besides being allergic to basically every seasonal allergen, I'm also allergic to fish. Not shellfish, regular fish. It sucks because it didn't develop until my 20s.
None that I’m presently aware of.
Although as a young kid, I used to claim to have bee allergy, as I simply thought anything I didn’t like would make it an “allergy.”
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