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    What are you allergic to?

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    Post by Supernova Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:16 am

    And how bad does it get?


    With me, my allergies are all triggered by something in nature. First and foremost is the pollen on pine trees, as you may recall, every December when we get a Christmas tree we have to spray it down and wrap it in plastic and leave it outside in the cold for a week before we bring it in to decorate it. Second on the list is fire weed, and the third, and current bastard on the list, cotton wood trees that are in season and the cotton's flying so it looks like a winter in Colorado.

    And my allergies all work the same way, might as well be the flu: sore throat, bad stomach, a week or two of coughing crap up (my mom says I always get it the worst, I think the only time a person makes more noise than when I'm doubled over coughing is when a woman gives birth with no drugs) and blowing my nose 200 times a day (every day this week I've opened a new box of aloe Puffs). I swear, there ought to be some ordinance that all cotton wood trees be cut down, and replaced with something more benign, it wouldn't matter much to me what it was, just so long as it didn't drop cotton every spring.
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    Post by Shale Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:33 am

    I don't have any respiratory allergies. I am allergic to 'cillins. Have to really impart that to the Drs. who have prescribed me antibiotics that don't have a 'cillin in the name but it is in the drug.

    Also, I became allergic to Band-Aids and tapes after 2005. My theory is that I triggered an immune response after breaking my Tibia - a large bone that exposed a lot of marrow to my system. It was during various treatments that I realized that it wasn't some injected med that made me break out in an itchy rash around the site, but the band aid.
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    The worst case was when I donated blood and they wrapped my arm in one of those colorful Coban elastic wraps that have adhesive on them. I have worn those after donating blood for years with no problem. That made my whole elbow swell up to the point that I went to a dermatologist to see if it was cellulitis.

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    Now I have to carry Durapore (silk tape - hypoallergenic) which is the only one that does not affect me. I make my own band aids with that and little gauze squares that I carry in my backpack. Not sterile but clean.

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    Post by Alan Smithee Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:41 am

    Nothing that I know of.
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    Post by Suzi Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:00 pm

    Many Chemicals , that includes prefumes in soaps, on people, and laundry detergents.
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    Post by CeCe Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:36 pm

    Anything remotely codeine related like vicodin & tylox. Mild latex allergy. With the codeine I barf til I just want to die & the latex causes a rash that looks like a scald or bad sunburn & swells.
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    Post by wants2laugh Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:31 pm

    just augmentin which is in the penicilin family... but not penicilin... go figure! lol
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    Post by Shale Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:00 pm

    wants2laugh wrote:just augmentin which is in the penicilin family... but not penicilin... go figure! lol
    Augmentin, that's the one my doc gave me. Had an itchy rash everywhere except my soles and palms. (Yeah EVERYWERE).
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    Post by CeCe Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:28 pm

    wants2laugh wrote:just augmentin which is in the penicilin family... but not penicilin... go figure! lol
    Shale wrote:Augmentin, that's the one my doc gave me. Had an itchy rash everywhere except my soles and palms. (Yeah EVERYWERE).


    oooh i forgot about that crappy little med. When I took it I started breaking out in welts. Stopped that one quick.
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    Post by Cheaps Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:52 am

    Nothing.
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    Post by wants2laugh Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:44 am

    that's what happened to me... broke out in weird hive like welts.... that itched soooo bad!!! from head to toe!!

    strange that it helped shale! LOL
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    Post by Alan Smithee Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:09 am

    CeCe wrote:Mild latex allergy.

    So...lambskin?
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    Post by CeCe Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:31 am

    Alan Smithee wrote:

    So...lambskin?

    Yep. Lambskin or polyurethane Smile
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    Post by Tony Marino Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:55 am

    I have some pollen allergies and also I am allergic to cardboard and brown bags of any kind.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:55 pm

    Nothing. My immune system is a beast.
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    Post by Alan Smithee Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:09 pm

    CeCe wrote:

    Yep. Lambskin or polyurethane Smile

    Or Saran Wrap and a twist tie?
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    Post by CeCe Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:16 pm

    Alan Smithee wrote:

    Or Saran Wrap and a twist tie?

    A possibility. In this economy I'm open to suggestions laughing

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