Allergies

I saw a documentary about allergies in some remote island in the phillippines or somewhere. Basically, there was 2 sets of people. The ones who lived near the beach, and had some sort of western influenced civilisation, and the other group were tribal and lived in the middle of the island up in the forest.

The people living in the tribes had absolutely no allergies. 0%!
The people living in the more civilised areas, with their washing detergent and proper sanitation and stuff, had a good few allergies.

They concluded allergies were developed when your immune system is bored basically. For example, it has no germs or dirt or anything to attack, so it just attacks itself!

So, let that be a lesson to ya! Stop showering and your allergies will go away!!

I get terrible hayfever every summer, I always have to carry my tablets with me and if I forget them I have to turn back.

Hay fever, but that's all, and I never suffer too badly with it either.

I had an annaphylactic shock reaction to a spice, 3 years later they're still investigating what caused it. I have 3 anapens and anti-histimines at the ready and just before christmas i ended up in hospital for 4 days with erythema nodosum, which is an autoimmune response to something in the body,(basically allergic to myself:D:rolleyes:) anything from pregnancy to a viral infection to lukemia.. will have results on tuesday to see what caused that.. but the older i'm getting the more allergies i'm getting, so far in order it paracetamol, adhesive on plasters, latex a random spice, and i'm dairy intolerant.

My husband thinks i should be put down, it'd be cheaper :pac:
And here's a bit of useless information about allergies.... you can develop them at any stage in your life and they can disappear ramdomly too...:eek:

I'm intolerant to intolerance

Your gp can refer you for testing in hospital that specialize.. either Beaumont or Mater Private, you get skin tests done and if these are inconclusive then they do it by bloods. this takes longer, i'm so allergic that i can't have the skin testing on the spice, hence i'm a lot of years getting through them.. the skin testing takes about an hour in total.;)

stupidusername wrote: »

i'm waiting on an appointment with an immunologist, just have no idea when it's going to be :rolleyes: meanwhile i think my anti histamine is having less and less effect on the allergy.

Its really a process of elimination, even with the testing. You have to go back to the day it started and list everything you ate, wore drank, places you were products you used it all contributes..
How is it manifesting?? rash or swellings??

Hope i dont' get into trouble for this, it sounds like anaphylaxis my hands and feet get mad itchy and i'd nearly be ripping the skin off myself and the swelling too, i was lucky when it happened to me my airways didn't swell, i was just going into heartfailure :eek:my bp dropped to 57 over 27 luckily i was in A and E at this stage.

The only way i found out what it even might be was to list everything i ate and used that day. i was able to eliminate a lot of things by eating them again. But as soon as i had a homemade curry it happened again, although not as severe.It was about 6 months after the first reaction. So i had my list of ingredients to work off. I was originally tested in the Mater Private, It cost me €78 and i was able to get an appointment within a week or 2. They were inconclusive. So i attend Beaumont, its public cos no private appointments available now, so it takes 6 months between visits.
I'm surprised your GP is letting you wait so long if it's so severe? do you have any idea what triggers it ?

Nuts
Grass
Tree Pollen
Duck Feathers
Dog Hait
Cat Hair
Onions
Goose Feathers
Dustmites

think thats about it. The nut one is mental though i can't even talk to someone that has eaten a nut cause the smell off their breath can trigger a reaction.

stupidusername wrote: »

Have no idea what's causing it. it's constant. or well would be without my telfast. though there is some variance in how long the telfast holds it off for.

don't worry i'm not taking advice here or looking for a diagnosis. I was a little scared yesterday my throat was going to close up, but hasn't happened yet. have a doctors appointment tuesday and so i'll talk to her about how bad it is then. I was on steroids a couple of times there too.

never knew an allergy could be so bad. well I suppose I never expected to have one.

It can be very frustrating and very scary at times, but the longer you have it the less you worry, it does give you some prespective on life though, you just never know the day or the hour.. my attitude to life now is " Here for a good time not a long time" :pac: I hope you get some results soon and if you need unburden to someone who's in the know feel free to PM

stupidusername wrote: »

How do you manage with a dairy allergy.... can't imagine it

one of my mates can't drink beer cause he's allergic to wheat