cats
the usual dust, pollen, grass etc.
but I went for an abnominal MRI with infusion and right after the test I sneezed. I thought the radiology tech was going to have a hear attack. I just thought it was really dusty in there. Turns out I’m allergic to the contrast dye. I was covered in hives and couldn’t breathe. Fortunately I was already in the emergancy room and they shot me up with Benadryl and epinephrine. They gave me so much Benadryl that I actually fell dead asleep on my gurney for 2 hours. What was amazing about that was that the ER was so crowded that they had parked me right next to the nurse’s stations and I slept though everything.
Now I have to check everything for iodine. Slimfast, Powerbars, Cliff bars,…a little iodine and I get a mild reaction. Hives and some stomach gurgling. You cannot believe what they put iodine in.
Go figure
Here’s one nobody’s mentioned before: I’m allergic to cold. If my skin is exposed to cold for any significant length of time (a few minutes, say) I’ll break out in puffy, red hives that itch like a bitch. Makes living in Massachusetts a real pain in the ass 9 months out of the year or so. God, I miss living in Florida…
I’m also allergic to most artificial scents and perfumes, but that’s not so uncommon. They make my eyes itch, give me asthma attacks, and generally bug the hell out of me. Also, most of them smell almost exactly the same to me. It’s like they all have the same overpowering, revolting smell, plus a hint of what they’re supposed to smell like.
I also have a whole slew of more mundane allergies, but luckily none of them are severe enough to warrant trips to the hospital.
I discovered I was allergic to cashews and pistachios a couple of years ago after my throat and mouth got itchy and swelled up while eating cashews. Pistachios are in the same family, and once I found that out, it made more sense that pistachios had been making my throat all itchy whenever I ate them. Mangos are the only other food in that family, so I don’t eat them either. I got the blood tests to see what else I was allergic to, and found out that I’m also allergic to soy, which is in practically everything (soybean oil). I just get a headache and itchy skin with soy so it’s not so bad. I always carry benadryl, just in case I eat something weird. One of my sisters is allergic to all pitted fruits, apples/pears and penicillin, and my other sister is allergic to sulpher drugs. Family get-togethers tend to start with a discussion of what’s for dinner and who can eat what.
I am allergic to chalk. When I was a kid, I’d come home from school at least once a month with one or both eyes swollen almost shut from writing on the board and then touching my eyes.
Dry erase boards were a vast technological advance to me 
I’m allergic to lot of things,
like some animals,
some flowers,
some things you eat
smoke from cigarettes
and then one thing that can be a bit hard soemtimes,
perfume.
So, it’s hard for me to find shampoo I can have,
roll on and lotion to my skin
I can’t find any lotions to my skin,
I’ve tried the one’s that says for allergics,
but can’t have them either.
And I just the other day here in US found
a stick for my lips,
that protects them for not being dry.
I don’t know how many things I bought
that I had to througt away or give away,
like roll-ons, shampoo, skin lotions, lip-sticks
and so on.
So when I fianlly find one, I’m thrilled.
Hi i never had an allergy until i turned 18. Then one day i was eating a peach and it made my throat real itchy and my mouth. My throat swelled a little. Then other fruits with a seed in the middle : peaches pears plums cherries apricots nectarines. Then i tried to eat a walnut which i used to eat all the time and that was the worst! Later that year at thanksgiving day dinner, my mom asked why i wasnt eating any walnuts and i told her why. She said its all in your head and forced me to eat a bite. We called the ambulance and now she believes me. Lol
When i was in 5th grade i rolled down the large grass hill in our backyard and within hours i developed a rash that appeared to look like chicken pox. I went to the doc and not chicken pox. They had no idea what i had. Then by the next day i would faint/pass out for no reason. This went on for weeks. I had brain scans and a huge workup and i was on my death bed and the doctors kept asking my parents what i had done, eaten etc. My dad realized i was rolling down the hill and that he had just fertilized. They were able to get me fixed up but i almost didnt make it. A miracle.
I do not get near fertilizer anymore.
Then , i wore acrylic nails off and on for years and one day my hands swelled up and fingers itched severely andcwould last apx a week or two. Then i would get nails done and it would start again. I took them off and took the liquid monimer and the powder to the allergist and she put patches of both products on my back. Within seconds my back swelled up 3x its size. The powder patch was fine but the liquid monimer was the culprit. I do not have fake nails anymore. Im also severely alletgic to nickel. Its in
Most jewlery.
I can only eat canned fruit. Thats ok but its high in calories so i dont eat it often. I can eat bananas, watermelon, strawberries, rasp and blue and blackberries. Oranges used to be ok but recently i get horrible gi upset for hours. Yikes. Lol.
I can eat peanuts, cashews, macadamias. Most other nuts are out. I do get gi upaet if i eat too many at once.
So yes im a mess! It sucks and not fair. I have been allergy tested and was on shots for twenty years. I am alletgic to every grass weed tree etc. To everything but two of all the tests. It says im alletgic to cats and dogs but i do not have any symptoms around them. Strange! I guess its just how you feel.
I wish i could eat fruit. I loved it so much. I hear it can change back. I hope mine does. Im afraid to test and see.
So i guess i qualify as a most allergic to weird stuff lol
I’m allergic to Blue Cheese. And zombies.
Aiyeeee!!! Zombie thread!
Honey mustard & onion pretzels. I love them, but it took me about 3 episodes of eating them and then projectile vomiting before I realized that my body didn’t love them. It’s been getting worse and worse: it used to be I could eat whole handfuls of the strongly seasoned ones before I’d start feeling queasy but now I’m sick after 3-4 lightly flavored mini ones. I’ve finally given them up; it doesn’t cause hives, but something’s not right.
I have trouble with onions in general, but I can’t seem to narrow down what types or in what contexts so I try to avoid all of it as much as possible. Raw onions for sure; Chipotle salsa kills me. Again, no hives, but it’s intermittent nausea, bloating, headache, and vomiting, and it’s very unpleasant. I guess it would be more of an intolerance than an allergy.
I’m also allergic to sulfa drugs and I’ve seen some suggestions that the two might be related.
I am allergic to antihistamines. No, really.
I am allergic to fireflies. This is apparently really really rare. When I was a kid my dad worked for the FDA and his friends at the NIH wanted my blood as derivatives of firefly phosphorecence were used for medical purposes. I spent a good part of my youth trapping those things and doing awful things to lightning bugs, so this is my karmic retribution.
I haven’t tested this for a good twenty years, but I used to swell up nicely around them and itch like crazy on contact.
Day-umm. Did you slaughter nuns or scribble in library books in a previous life or something :eek:
I’m allergic to formaldehyde and wool. I also had a dandy allergic reaction about a week and a half ago (spoilered due to icky TMI-ness)
to OTC yeast infection ointment and after a course of prednisone it still hurts like a mofo to sit down.
On the subject of jewelry, has anyone ever heard of an allergy to titanium? I have a couple pairs of titanium earrings that I bought and I remember reading it’s supposed to be the most hypoallergenic metal for jewelry. Because I can wear even costume jewelry earrings all day and at worst have slightly itchy ear lobes, but I have never been able to wear the titanium ones for more than a few hours without major itchitude.
In the ER I’ve met two people allergic to Benadryl. It was all I could do to not blurt out “sucks to be you!”
Raw onions - if I eat them, I get symptoms like a combination an alcohol hangover with mild hayfever. Doesn’t stop me, because I love cheese and onion sandwiches. Cooked onions I can eat by the bucketful without a problem (well, without that problem).
Pine nuts. Not sure if it’s all pine nuts, or only one kind, or maybe I’ve just been unlucky, but about half the times I’ve eaten pine nuts (entire, or in pesto), I’ve felt immediately queasy, or have been violently sick.
I haven’t had it tested but I think I am allergic to white rats and (since last year) red wine. The last two times I drank red wine I got a scratchy throat and a husky voice.
Iodine.
After I had my first child I became allergic to the adhesive on band-aids. Not the latex, but the adhesive. My face completely swelled up after my son had his 10 day PKU test and I handled the bandaid on his little heel.
Went to the allergist and he scratch tested me and my reaction was as strong as the histamine positive control. My immune system was whacked as it was returning to normal after pregnancy- I became hypothyroid as well due to autoimmune attack on it. It is not uncommon to become transiently hypothyroid post-natal, but with hypothyroidism genetically predisposed in my family, mine just stuck. The bandaid allergy eventually became less severe.
I am also allergic (same scratch test) to fruit flies, after years of working with them in the lab. This is not uncommon.
Best steer clear of Damien Hirst.
