Damn right (says the husband of a nurse).
My wife had something similar happen to her when she was young except with her it was strawberrys.
I didn’t know people could develop allergies in adulthood :eek: Sending healing thoughts/vibes/prayers your way.
I think inexperienced people tend to underestimate the possible severity of an allergic reaction. They don’t realize that once you can’t breathe, you really don’t have any time left, so you have to act fast before it gets to that point. One afternoon I came home, our exchange student was in the shower - my husband said he had a “little rash” from the community swimming pool. He wanted to know what I recommended - I said “maybe an oatmeal bath?” Later the kid came out of the shower and I looked at him - his face was red around his nose and mouth and he couldn’t sit still he was so itchy. I said “show me the rash” and he showed me his back and side which were absolutely COVERED in blisters. I said “can you breathe OK?” He said yes. I said “OK everybody we’re going for a ride.” Drove him straight to the hospital. My husband was bewildered - he thought maybe I’d give him a cream or something!
My sister has asthma so I know what it is like to watch someone struggle for air. It’s not something one cares to repeat.
Reminding me oh so well of The first law of emergency services: All Fires eventually go out and all bleeding eventually stops. Dosen’t mean the whole city didn’t burn down but it did eventually go out.
I was never all that married to shrimp, and honestly don’t miss it too much. Crab, lobster - no problem. Someone told me to skip scallops too, which is ok, because I’m not a scallop guy either.
Now, if I ever get allergic to cow or pig? Kill me.
People that are allergic to shellfish are often reacting to the iodine contained therein.
I got to witness an allergic reaction to IV contrast dye injected for a CT scan.
She went from normal to critical in about 7 seconds: Cough-wheeze-choke-blue.
Luckily the ER was right next door. Benadryl and epi, and she was fine muy pronto.
Best of luck to the husbands up thread. Allergies ain’t nothin’ to sneeze at.
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No, the first law of emergency services is DON’T PISS OFF THE ER NURSE! The second law is SEE RULE #1 
Hubby has an appt to see is doc to get a referral to an allergist. He’s still a little wiped out. He’s going to stay home from work tomorrow. I’m less freaked out.
Thank you everyone for the good wishes and support. It means a lot to me.
What is your husband doing to cause you so much worry? Does he smoke, drink, or is he overweight?
He is not his father, and times are different now, with the medical advances that have been made since his dad’s death. History doesn’t have to repeat itself!
I wish you and your husband good health and happiness. if you ever need to vent, we’re here for you.
If you didn’t know you could develop allergies as adults, obviously you’ve never seen the movie Hitch. You should watch it. Seriously. Will Smith with life-threatening hives that make his ears look like Dumbo.
Good wishes and speedy recovery to your husband.
I hope I’m not taking these two comments too personally, but … dang, y’all: I put a 
right there. I mean, I didn’t even space down or anything.
ICU nurse checking in.
I loves me nuts…but if I have even one hazelnut I have
the same sort of anaphylactic reaction picunurse’s husband
has.
It’s even worse when you know what in the bejeebus is happening…one
of those ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’ moments nurses are wont
to have.
I hope your husbands get better soon! Er, and, getting “the trots” after eating peanut butter, is that an allergic symptom? :eek:
Nevermind, I see that it is on the list. I’ve made an appointment to get checked to be safe. I don’t eat much peanut things at all anymore, but had some peanutbutter earlier this week, and spent two days sick/hungover feeling, with stomach cramping and “the trots” initially, then feeling really tired and headachy/out of it. I’d rather have the doctor tell me “it’s just your IBS you silly” than have it be a peanut allergy and it kills me.
picunurse, I hope your husband feels better soon. And I hope now that this has happened, he’s very aware that you can’t take a server’s word for what’s in a food. The more care he takes to avoid foods that might contain those nuts, the happier he’ll be.
Some of this is from over-exposure. I never reacted to basil until I was a freshman in college and working in the dishroom dinners. We served pasta (most commerical tomato sauces for pasta contain basil. Most of Hunts doesn’t) every night so I was exposed to sauce up to 16 hours a week, and now I can’t touch anything with the slightest trace of tomato sauce (pizza or for pasta) I get itchy welts every where I touched it…even your tongue can itch, which is something I could have lived without knowing. The last time I had a reaction was using the clean-looking mouse of someone who hadn’t washed their hands after eating pizza. :mad:
He does feel better today.
I sensitized myself to blueberries a couple years ago. I picked 5or 6 gallons of wild blueberries, then spent the next two days cleaning them and making jam.
Next morning, I had a piece of toast with my new jam, and broke out in hives and started to wheeze. :rolleyes: I gave it all away.
Hubby had his allergy testing on Wednesday. He’s allergic to almonds! No one is allergic to almonds. He never does anything in the most common way. He reacted so strongly, they had to give him two albuterol treatments and a dose of Benedryl. His voice was still whispery when he got home.
He had no reaction to tree nuts, and only slightly to peanuts. They said that could be from eating peanut butter recently.
Here’s an odd coincidence. Back when he first started at his current job, he was recuited to the haz-mat team because he could smell/taste trace amounts of cyanide. The ability is genetic, and rare.
The interesting thing is, the chemical group is present in the peach/almond family. It makes me wonder if his allergy is related to his genetic ability.
He also reacted to cat dander. :eek: We have three! No, we aren’t getting rid of them, he’ll take Claritin.
Coming in to say “Thank you, picnurse” because if I hadn’t read this topic I wouldn’t have gone in to get checked. I am allergic to peanuts, and some other things.
Mine is penicillin. I went to the doc for an ear infection and he gave me a shot. I went home and had no problem. I woke the next day with a grotesque swollen face. I was thinking jobs in horror movies were in my future. I called the doc and he said it sounded like an allergic reaction. It went away within 24 hours,. I have not taken penicillin to test it out. I still wonder.
One of my co-workers at my last job was.
I’ve found that Zyrtec is the only non-decongestant allergy med that my allergies don’t just laugh at, personally.