Weird Allergies...

jimolliemom · Post by **jimolliemom** » October 21, 2008 11:22 pm

BB got me thinking on another thread...Gluten free household. WOW..that'd be more work! But it's for her keets...

My Jim is pretty low on the allergy scale...for us. He's outgrown most of them. As a baby and little boy it was MSG. THAT was a hard one. And strawberries...

Now Mollie...bless her peaches and cream skin and her over allergied heart...
She is allergic to the coating on M and M's (but not all chocolate), something in the cereal straws (but NOT in the matching cereal loose in a box), fumes from new markers and clay and PLAY-DOH! You can raise a child without play doh but it's not easy. Her teacher this year thinks I'm nuts until the school nurse told her about last year and the 6 days in the hospital for play doh fumes in a classroom. Then there's the mold, mildrew and bugs. Most stinging things make her whelt and wheeze. Oh, then there's antibiotics...no Penicillin, cephalosporins, zithromax, erythromycin, pediazole, augmentin...what's left you ask. Sulfa...for it all. UTI? Septra Susp. URI? Septra Susp. Infected bug bite (after the wheezing is under control) Septra Susp. When she turns 12 she can TRY Cipro...(Crossing fingers)

So...what are YOU (or yours ) allergic to???

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » October 21, 2008 11:26 pm

everything in the air makes me wheeze, sneeze and makes my nose run.
but welcome to the Gulf coast.

I'm also allergic to raw onions.
I can eat a few cooked ones, but no raw ones....ever.

Dally · Post by **Dally** » October 21, 2008 11:50 pm

it's not a food allergy....but....my nephew is allergic to the plastic "grass" that you put in Easter baskets.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » October 21, 2008 11:51 pm

I had a guest the other night in the restaurant. Allergic to celery.

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » October 21, 2008 11:51 pm

I'm allergic to work but it's not so weird, in fact it's a common allergy

jimolliemom · Post by **jimolliemom** » October 22, 2008 7:44 am

kinda funny...in a sad way...Mollie's puppy, JJ, is allergic to the Parvo part of puppy/doggy shots. First one was fine. Second one...his eyes swelled shut...even his little ears thickened. It was SO sad to watch and I've sure scary for him. So, now we go to the vet, she gives him a medrol and a benadryl shot...then in 30 minutes we have our appt and the rest of his shots.

Only my high allergy kid would have a high allergy puppy!

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » October 22, 2008 8:00 am

Penicillin, cephalosporins, quinolone antibiotics.....

Yep, use a lot of Bactrim here, a lot....I have used the Z pack with no ill side effects....My Dr is always careful when prescribing a new antibiotic...

And goats.

Go figure. Not sure where I was exposed to , or around goats for any length of time....but I have an asthma attack if I touch them.....

No foods. dammit.

jimolliemom · Post by **jimolliemom** » October 22, 2008 8:03 am

Connie, sounds like you and Mollie are kin!! (I know we are all PHamily anyhow!)...

You know the goat thing...someone's gonna run with that! But if they make you sick...DON'T TOUCH THEM!!!

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » October 22, 2008 8:09 am

jimolliemom wrote:Connie, sounds like you and Mollie are kin!! (I know we are all PHamily anyhow!)...

You know the goat thing...someone's gonna run with that! But if they make you sick...DON'T TOUCH THEM!!!

When the Dr did all the testing? He said "WHERE has she been around goats???"

My grandmother didn't blink an eye and said "Her father."

nutmeg · Post by **nutmeg** » October 22, 2008 8:11 am

Well Conolulu, I'm allergic to Bactrim and other sulpha antibiotics.

Had hives from head to toe when I took it.

I'm allergic to mold, dust, several trees, grasses, cats, dogs, horses and the stuff they stuff furniture with, Kapoc.

jimolliemom · Post by **jimolliemom** » October 22, 2008 9:14 am

Medication HAS to be one of the top allergies. Milk and tomatoes were always listed as high allergens when my mother owned and operated a home day care. And peanut butter!

My sister (no blood relation but I DID live with her) is allergic to chicken AND eggs! Can YOU eat w/o chicken or eggs??? She was better as an adult but as a kid it was tough feeding us both from one dinner table. The doctor had to order a special series of child shots, grown on a monkey organ because for the most part, vaccines are grown on eggs!

I just have the "in bloom" allergies. Nothing a claritin can't handle...so I wonder...if Hubby is as healthy as a horse and I'm low allergy, why do both my keets have such trouble? Especially the younger?? They are both SEVERLY asthmatic as well...connection???

comemonday · Post by **comemonday** » October 22, 2008 9:36 am

My brother-in-law is allergic to potatoes.... I think THAT would s***! I could get by w/out ever touching a goat

but I don't know about potatoes! Esp. cause there's a lot of things that have potato "parts" since I'm brain-freezing on the word... in them that you don't even think about. (ie... chicken-in biskit crackers)....

green1 · Post by **green1** » October 22, 2008 10:17 am

Cats. Love them but can't be around them for any length of time. But it didn't stop me from taking care of some friends cats when they were out of town.

As for cause. Who knows? Immunizations are being looked at now as a potential cause for some of this stuff. As is the drugs, immunizations and growth hormones given the livestock.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » October 22, 2008 10:20 am

jimolliemom wrote:BB got me thinking on another thread...Gluten free household. WOW..that'd be more work! But it's for her keets...

Allergy/intolerance problems are WAY more about the social and classroom impacts than the actual food, IMO. Keeping my house gluten-free is not as hard as it seems.

Sounds like Mollie might have issue with artificial coloring. The coating on the inside of cereal straws is probably the same kind of stuff coating M&Ms.

The only time I have any allergy problems is when I'm in an arena with horses. Then I'm a sneezy wheezy mess. No other seasonal allergies or food allergies or meds allergies.

pbans · Post by **pbans** » October 22, 2008 10:23 am

I am hideously allergic to Sulfa drugs. The first time I took them I ended up in the hospital with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.

It was one of those right place/right time moments.....

I had taken the medicine for a sinus infection about a half hour before I went to work. As soon as I got to work, we had an traffic accident that I had to go to....the paramedics were there, but the driver's didn't need to be transported....I was talking to one of them and told him I didn't feel good. He looked at me and said, "You're purple....what the hell have you been doing?" I told him about the sulfa....and he told me to get my butt to the hospital NOW.....really, if I'd waited a few more hours, it would have been so much worse. People with SJS generally don't do as well as I did....google some pictures and you'll see what I mean....it's ugly.

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » October 22, 2008 10:25 am

Saw this in the paper this morning...

Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise, now affecting about 3 million kids, according to the first federal study of the problem. But experts said that might be because parents are more aware and quicker to have their kids checked out by a doctor.

About 1 in 26 children had food allergies last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today. That’s up from 1 in 29 kids in 1997.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... 22020/1009

Glad I'm not allergic to anything, yet.

fabduo · Post by **fabduo** » October 22, 2008 11:27 am

allergic to tape -bandaids, surgical tape
I get severe blisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frank4 · Post by **Frank4** » October 22, 2008 11:30 am

I worked with a girl who was allergic to wheat.
My nephew is allegeric to peanuts-although that's quiet common in kids

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » October 22, 2008 11:33 am

jimolliemom wrote:Medication HAS to be one of the top allergies. Milk and tomatoes were always listed as high allergens when my mother owned and operated a home day care. And peanut butter!

My sister (no blood relation but I DID live with her) is allergic to chicken AND eggs! Can YOU eat w/o chicken or eggs??? She was better as an adult but as a kid it was tough feeding us both from one dinner table. The doctor had to order a special series of child shots, grown on a monkey organ because for the most part, vaccines are grown on eggs!

I just have the "in bloom" allergies. Nothing a claritin can't handle...so I wonder...if Hubby is as healthy as a horse and I'm low allergy, why do both my keets have such trouble? Especially the younger?? They are both SEVERLY asthmatic as well...connection???

My Mother is allergic to eggs.
She can eat foods made with eggs (cakes, etc), but can't eat a cooked egg (fried, hard cooked, etc)

IrishPirate · Post by **IrishPirate** » October 22, 2008 12:01 pm

Sulpha drugs and raw banana's for me!
Tyler is allergic to crysanthemums.
Tianne is allergic to her own sweat!

Makes for fun summertime!

It's actually an allergy to salt water. So if she goes to the beach or swims in a pool with a sodium base chlorine she breaks out in a rash, everywhere!

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