Allergies

edited October 2011 in Chit chat
Recently I keep getting a blocked/runny nose, its not a cold, been going on for weeks on and off, that and the tickle their that makes me sneeze over and over is getting tiresome now. I must have "suddenly" developed an allergy to something, its not confined to home either, happens at work too, doing my head in! Does anyone know how to identify just what it is they may be allergic to?
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  • fogfog
    edited October 2011


    you might have built up an intolerance to something .e.g. my sister used to go mad cleaning with bleach, and now her skin reacts to it.. I'm allergic to cat hair BIG time.

    you has asthma ? someone I met had a nut and gluten intoelerance, the nut one being that would kill her, she had to carry an eppy pen.

    I have been sneezing a lot of late , but I put it down to the odd weather.
  • edited October 2011
    I believe that you GP (or some Boots stores) offer an allergy test service. It may be something worth looking into. I myself am alergic to that Ralgex heat spray (I get a rash) and the Emla 5% cream that I use as an anastetic for my dialysis needles (it stings quite a bit and makes my arm red and sore, but compared to the pain of a local, I'll suffer with this as it's not as bad and the soreness never lasts very long anyway), but I didn't need to test to find these out though as it was imediatly obvious that my skin doesn't Ralgex and my dialysis nurse picked up on the Emla cream straight away.
  • edited October 2011
    recently I have been sneezing a lot as well, especially at night and I don't normally. don't suffer from hayfever either.

    on the subject of allergies I am really allergic to wine. if I open a fridge door and there's a half drunk bottle of wine in there I will recoil. sometimes even find it hard to be in a room of people drinking wine. no idea why because I'm not allergic to grapes or alcohol. the other thing in wine apparently is tannin but that's in tea and I can drink tea fine
  • edited October 2011
    I may go down Boots tomorrow and see if they offer that service, weird thing is ive never been allergic to anything in my life till now (if it is an allergy)
  • edited October 2011
    your GP should give you that allergy test thing.

    he will sratch your arm with lots of stuff to see if there is a reaction. if that fails he will rub a cat in your face, see if thats the problem. :p
  • edited October 2011
    There seems to be quite a few people I know developing new allergies recently. I myself have become allergic to cats, despite having pet cats constantly throughout my childhood and never having knowingly been allergic to anything at all before.

    I personally think it's Gaia, beginning the long process of cleansing the world of it's most harmful parasite - humin beans. :D
  • edited October 2011
    ccowley wrote: »
    There seems to be quite a few people I know developing new allergies recently. I myself have become allergic to cats, despite having pet cats constantly throughout my childhood and never having knowingly been allergic to anything at all before.

    I personally think it's Gaia, beginning the long process of cleansing the world of it's most harmful parasite - humin beans. :D

    we got nukes, what do she have, small orange frogs.

    /China wins by default.
  • edited October 2011
    mile wrote: »
    your GP should give you that allergy test thing.

    he will sratch your arm with lots of stuff to see if there is a reaction. if that fails he will rub a cat in your face, see if thats the problem. :p

    (insert joke here about rubbing a pussy in your face...................., cant believe you missed that opportunity mile!)
  • edited October 2011
    Macc wrote: »
    (insert joke here about rubbing a pussy in your face...................., cant believe you missed that opportunity mile!)

    i didn't miss is, i was waiting for someone to make the joke, then go.....









    tut tut tut

    ;)
  • edited October 2011
    Not sure if it's prawns or oysters but they make my face go bright red. I think it's prawns cos' the 2 instances I remember back from when I was younger was my 18th birthday where my best mate got tiny shrimp hidden under the cheese on a spicy chicken pizza we went halfs on, and another time at his sisters house when the bast did the same thing. He said both times it was my blood pressure cos' I'd been drinking too much booze, I was somewhat sceptical about his diagnosis I must say.

    He owned up to it a few years later thinking he was clever that he got my to eat prawns (because even if they didn't make my head into a beetroot I don't like them), the next time it happened was about a year ago or so when my wife made some kind of chinese dish that had oyster sauce and shrimp paste in it, but it was nowhere near as bad visibly as the first 2 times, but I found I started getting kind of short of breath.

    My mother in law is a doctor and the wifes aunt is a pharmacist, and both told me to avoid shrimp/prawns in future as just because I haven't had a bad reaction to date I could have in the future. My wifes family all have ridiculous amounts of allergies, so most of them have had a dose of anaphylaxis before, and all who have said it sucks (I imagine they're correct as it can pretty much end your life) :D

    I think I'll email my best mate and ask him if he remembers the time he got tiny shrimp under the cheese on the spicy chicken pizzas. It'll be nice for him to know that potentially he could've killed me :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2011
    Not sure if it's prawns or oysters but they make my face go bright red. I think it's prawns cos' the 2 instances I remember back from when I was younger was my 18th birthday where my best mate got tiny shrimp hidden under the cheese on a spicy chicken pizza we went halfs on, and another time at his sisters house when the bast did the same thing. He said both times it was my blood pressure cos' I'd been drinking too much booze, I was somewhat sceptical about his diagnosis I must say.

    He owned up to it a few years later thinking he was clever that he got my to eat prawns (because even if they didn't make my head into a beetroot I don't like them), the next time it happened was about a year ago or so when my wife made some kind of chinese dish that had oyster sauce and shrimp paste in it, but it was nowhere near as bad visibly as the first 2 times, but I found I started getting kind of short of breath.

    My mother in law is a doctor and the wifes aunt is a pharmacist, and both told me to avoid shrimp/prawns in future as just because I haven't had a bad reaction to date I could have in the future. My wifes family all have ridiculous amounts of allergies, so most of them have had a dose of anaphylaxis before, and all who have said it sucks (I imagine they're correct as it can pretty much end your life) :D

    I think I'll email my best mate and ask him if he remembers the time he got tiny shrimp under the cheese on the spicy chicken pizzas. It'll be nice for him to know that potentially he could've killed me :lol:

    such a poof. :p

    Insanity_Prawn_Boy.jpg
  • edited October 2011
    mile wrote: »
    such a poof. :p

    Insanity_Prawn_Boy.jpg

    I don't like them even if they didn't make me head glow I wouldn't eat them. Who knows maybe they don't maybe it was high blood pressure from too much booze? But I'm not going to shovel a handfull of those sh*t eating gutter parasites into my mouth to find out.

    So there! :p
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2011
    I don't like them even if they didn't make me head glow I wouldn't eat them. Who knows maybe they don't maybe it was high blood pressure from too much booze? But I'm not going to shovel a handfull of those sh*t eating gutter parasites into my mouth to find out.

    So there! :p

    **** eating gutter parasites. lol

    you dont see that on the menu often. :-P
  • edited October 2011
    Got to admit, I'm totally with boozy on this one (and I'm not even allergic to them). And don't get me started on sushi -- eating raw fish straight from the place we send a large proportion of our sewage to is not my idea of fun. At least cook the f**kers to kill off the worst of the bacteria first, FFS!
  • edited October 2011
    unlucky, I love prawns. I eat them almost every single day. just had some earlier.

    another weird alergy I've just remembered is that whenever I eat cheese my eyelids start sweating! very odd, must be a reason though
  • edited October 2011
    Macc wrote: »
    Recently I keep getting a blocked/runny nose, its not a cold, been going on for weeks on and off, that and the tickle their that makes me sneeze over and over is getting tiresome now. I must have "suddenly" developed an allergy to something, its not confined to home either, happens at work too, doing my head in! Does anyone know how to identify just what it is they may be allergic to?

    I've had the same on and off for a few years now

    As a bloke of course I refuse to take anything for it.

    When I was getting my ankle checked out a few years back (long story) I did mention it and was told that a lot of pollens n that were coming across from mainland Europe n Scandanavia that because we didn't grow up with them were probably the cause

    Dunno if it's true but he was a Dr and it sounded logical
  • edited October 2011
    I suppose I'll see when it gets colder and the pollen count drops if it continues then, you had ankle trouble too? I sprained mine twice in as many years, now it feels like it needs to crack to relieve pressure (all the time) and I sound like a rice crispie when I walk!
  • I'm slightly allergic to peanuts.

    I found out that if I eat a few that I get the symptoms of a bad head cold for about half an hour (runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing) and then it goes away again. My mouth gets a bit itchy too. No blue face, twitching or requirement for adrenaline shots though.

    I just avoid 'em.

    I'm also allergic to some cats and dogs, though it seems to be random and doesn't seem to fit a pattern of breed or if they have long hair etc. I once stayed over at a mate's who had cats and when I woke up it felt like my eyes were on fire. Little basts.

    I just avoid 'em.
  • edited October 2011
    Wookiee wrote: »
    When I was getting my ankle checked out a few years back (long story) I did mention it and was told that a lot of pollens n that were coming across from mainland Europe n Scandanavia that because we didn't grow up with them were probably the cause
    It's true - it was about 2004 or 2005, weather conditions brought over massive amounts of birch pollen that just sat over the UK and triggered allergies in loads of people who'd never had them before. Now every year I get an attack, first for a week around early March (Hazel catkins) then throughout April / early May (Birch). It varies in severity every two years and with the weather. A combination of one-a-day supermarket cetirizine hydrochloride and a few nose shots of Beconase make it bearable for me. The doctor said it's OK to combine those two, and if you have any Beconase left over it's good as a weak steroid for helping damaged cuts and bites, but you didn't get that from me...

    Around this time, it's probably mould spores that are setting you off. I consider myself lucky - if you get grass allergies, you're snotting all summer. The thing to do is note when it occurs each year and look it up on seasonal pollen charts. It helps to know when you can expect it to end again.

    With plants it's down to the size of the pollen grains - similarly sized grains from different trees will all set you off. Although with oilseed rape, that irritates a lot of people if it's grown in massive amounts even if you aren't allergic.

    I grew up around fields and hedgerows, so so far I don't suffer from those native and farmed things. However, in suburbs and new estates they plant a ridiculous amount of birch as it grows tall quickly, despite being the most common trigger for tree-pollen allergies. I have a friend on the Whitely estate who I can't visit in April even fully drugged up.

    With dogs it's usually the hair that sets you off (except for the wooly coat of schnauzers). If it's just cats it's usually their dried spittle on the hairs.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • Drinking alcohol is great for hayfever. It seems to block the pollen receptors (or something). One summer I think it was 2000/2001 it was the only thing that stopped my nose running.

    The only problem is the side-effects - amnesia, headache, dry mouth, nausea.

    Still, no prescription required :-P
  • fogfog
    edited October 2011
    a few of my friends suffer REALLY badly from hay fever , but a way to help it less the effect is to get honey from a local hive.. has to be local as thats whats in the air, in your area.
  • edited October 2011
    fog wrote: »
    a few of my friends suffer REALLY badly from hay fever , but a way to help it less the effect is to get honey from a local hive.. has to be local as thats whats in the air, in your area.

    who told you that, the local bee keeper? :grin:
  • edited October 2011
    That reminds me ... [noparse]GRAZ WE'RE (still) LOOKING FORWARD TO BEE KEEPER[/noparse] icon14.gif
  • fogfog
    edited October 2011
    mile wrote: »
    who told you that, the local bee keeper? :grin:

    nah it was on the radio years ago.. it makes sense if you think about it, due to the pollen being used for the honey.
    honey is one of the only things that don't go off apparently.. I guess it's due to it's consistency.

    it's a high value item, well certain types of it
  • edited October 2011
    fog wrote: »
    nah it was on the radio years ago.. it makes sense if you think about it, due to the pollen being used for the honey.
    honey is one of the only things that don't go off apparently.. I guess it's due to it's consistency.

    it's a high value item, well certain types of it

    you know an awful lot about honey fog.
  • fogfog
    edited October 2011
    mile wrote: »
    you know an awful lot about honey fog.

    theres a reason for that... I keep bee's and try to flog honey to unsuspecting northerners :)

    (I don't have a hive , not even the game by firebird)

    speaking of which, the author looks familiar.. wonder if WOS has permission from the authors

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002332
  • edited October 2011
    My wifes uncle does have a hive, or at least he did, I have no idea if the bees stayed, they did for a while though, and he did get some honey from it. I have no idea if the honey was good or if it was sour. Apparently if the bees aren't content with their living conditions the honey will taste foul and eventually they'll fly away and start a new colony nowhere near the one they thought was crap.

    I'm thinking they weren't too happy and every time my wifes uncle messed with the hive his white beesuit developed several thousand polker dots. Although maybe they're still there? The hive was right next to a nice variety of trees, several fruit bushes, and a row of grape vines, so they had a nice variety of things to gather pollen from (although to be honest I have no idea if that really matters?)?
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2011
    I'm alerergic to tarmac, it brings me out in a rash.
  • edited October 2011
    thx1138 wrote: »
    I'm alerergic to tarmac, it brings me out in a rash.

    It brings anybody out in a rash if they're sliding along on it at 90 :p
    Every night is curry night!
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2011
    I'm allergic to my work, the minute i arrive i get this deep depression and dread that won't lift till i've left:smile:
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
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