who is allergic ?
Today i had a bad crisis of urticaria (Nettle-rash) and one of my friend Anesthesist made me a intra-venous injection of 500 mg of hydrocortison : it take three hours to make the rash disapear. I think but i have to make test, it cames from something at eat during lunch. One hour after i have very bad pain in my bowels, and my face and my hand and feets became reds , starting to inflate, and itching. Luckyly i was at job, and i have quickly an injection before the things could get worse (you never know what can happen , these things can lead you to death in the biggest cases).
I am subject to many allergia , but mostly allergic to pollen causing me huge rhino-conjonctivitis even when i take the maximum quantitity of medication (anti-histaminics); Every year if make me sick during three months, If i calculate well, during my life i have a rhinoconjonctivitis during 9 years : i think i may buy some actions at Kleenex
However, i like to know who is subject to allergia here, and how he manage to cure him (if not too private, but nobody is oblige to answer in any thread of AI
).
I am subject to many allergia , but mostly allergic to pollen causing me huge rhino-conjonctivitis even when i take the maximum quantitity of medication (anti-histaminics); Every year if make me sick during three months, If i calculate well, during my life i have a rhinoconjonctivitis during 9 years : i think i may buy some actions at Kleenex
However, i like to know who is subject to allergia here, and how he manage to cure him (if not too private, but nobody is oblige to answer in any thread of AI
).
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A lot of people seem to think that hayfever isn't that serious but it can actually make life miserable in the summer months. Most days I wake up with puffy eyes, runny nose and feel short of breath and it lasts most of the day even when I take my medication.
I'm holding out hope for a new immunotherapy injection which is being developed in the US, see <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1848000/1848583.stm"; target="_blank">this</a> BBC Health article.
Until then I'll keep checking my <a href="http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/promo/pollenalert.html"; target="_blank">Yahoo Mobile Pollen Alert</a> and decide whether to stay in bed or go to work.
J :cool:
I wish that the new treatment will work more. In general, injections work better if you are allergic to one allergen rather to plenty of it. Immunotherapy works well for example for allergia of venim of bees (50 people dye by year in France because of this :eek: ).
Last year i was so worried about the hayfever, that i decided to have an injection of Kenakort (long lasting corticoid) and the result was wonderful. I know that long lasting corticoids are not very good for health, but when you suffer to much of these shit, there is no hesitation possible.
Sorry to ear Jamie that you suffer the same illness, brother of unfortune
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Sorry to ear Jamie that you suffer the same illness, brother of unfortune
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Thanks, powerdoc!
Ya got any of that Kenakort and a spare needle lying around for your brother of unfortune?
J :cool:
and eggplant makes my mouth itch a bit
(added) oh yeah I also have slight Hay Fever... that triggers slight asthma occasionally . . . either that or I just love that Claritin Sudafed feeling . . . just add Coffee and its super great!!
I heard that allergies are increasing . . . mainly because people are no longer exposed to the plethora of bacteria and irritants that they used to as children. . . we stay too clean and indoors too much.
for instance, children that grow up dealing with farm animals do not get allergies to pollen and the like . . . suposedly. They adapt to the bacteria onthe animals and their systems are more flexible.
that's why, I hope to get my next job (this gig now is temporary) in the country so I can raise some farm animals and have a garden for my wife and kid to be (coming in November)
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WTF is a 'brother of unfortunate'?
Jamie, have you tried Allegra? For me it works great and I do not wake up miserable anymore when I am taking it. Also, washing your pillow and PillowCase and vacuuming out your bed once in a while works wonders as well.
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Jamie, have you tried Allegra?</strong><hr></blockquote>
No, what is it? I haven't seen it over here.
Thanks for the tips
J :cool:
<strong>fur</strong><hr></blockquote>Fur? Are you sure it's not the dander that you're allergic to?
Yeah, I'm allergic to just about every mold spore, pollen, grasses, weeds, dust mites, animal dander (especially cats), and whatever the chemical is in Advil (this one is common for people with Asthma, like myself). Fortunately I have no food allergies (that I know of).
I hate my allergies. I started taking shots in both arms every other week since I was five years old (and never once cried over it). Pffft. Needles sure don't ever bother me now. Big or small, I've had them all.
Cat dander is especially bad for me. If I just sit in a chair where a cat has been, within half an hour I will break out in hives all over my body and will be wheezing and having severe problems breathing. I also have to limit my exercise outdoors (or take extra doses of my medication) because even after going on a brisk two-mile jog, my throat and lungs start to close up and I begin wheezing terribly.
What's worse, I have some bad pollups in my sinuses that have cropped up over the past two and a half years that mess with my sense of smell. I *literally* am blind to smells. You could spray perfume on my upper lip and I wouldn't smell it. There's a serious downside to this, too, as I can't smell things like gasoline or kerosene either (that is, I can't smell the additive in them that makes them smell). I could be doused in gas and I would just think it was water. I can't even smell sulfurous odors. In a recent chem lab everyone was complaining of the awful smell and I was like, what smell?
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
I hate allergies.
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<strong>I too suffer a pollen allergy, or hayfever as it's more commonly known.</strong><hr></blockquote>I never had worse pollen allergies than when I was in Scotland. There must be some evil stuff floating around over there.
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No, what is it? I haven't seen it over here.
Thanks for the tips
J :cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.allegra.com/seasonal-allergy-site.jsp"; target="_blank">http://www.allegra.com/seasonal-allergy-site.jsp</a>;
Not sure if it is avaiable in Scotland or not, it is prescription only right now.
Although I did find this site....
<a href="http://www.norxallergy.com/OTC-Allegra.html"; target="_blank">http://www.norxallergy.com/OTC-Allegra.html</a>; <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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<strong>I never had worse pollen allergies than when I was in Scotland. There must be some evil stuff floating around over there.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It's a crop called 'Oilseed Rape'. I never had hayfever until they started planting this stuff in the farms where I live.
And thanks NoahJ, I'll ask my doctor if he can get a hold of it for me.
J :cool:
There's also quite a lot of tree pollen in pine forests. I'm fairly allergic to that, but fortunately Clarityn keeps it at bay.
And Oilseed Rape/Rapeseed is also known as Canola.