Do you have any unusual allergies?
I’m allergic to macadamia nuts and cashews. (also peanuts, but that’s common)
And, recently, I’ve developed what seems to be an allergy to hostess cup cakes. 
Note that my food allergies manifest as being sick to my stomach, and doesn’t get worse than that. Well, the mac nuts go beyond feeling sick to actual being sick
In addition, I’m sensitive to laughing gas. Not technically an allergy, but I usually list it on medical forms
I’m severely allergic to guinea pigs. 
It’s probably good that not many people have guinea pigs.
The wife is allergic to shellfish (iodine) and, of all things, acetaminophen. Makes for interesting ER trips…
I’m pretty allergic to basil. I haven’t eaten anything with any in it for 20 years because hives in your mouth and throat are awful. Unfortunately, I don’t need to consume it to get hives, I just need to touch a surface with a trace amount on it, like a smidgen of pizza sauce on a doorknob left by someone who didn’t wash his hands.
Are the cupcakes made with nut oil? On machinery that processes peanuts?
I have oral allergy syndrome. I’m allergic to a whole bunch of seemingly random things. It’s nothing serious, but certain foods will make my throat itch within seconds. And while it shouldn’t go beyond that, I’ve never pushed it.
So, things like green beans, peas and apples are huge. All of those (and lots of others) will make my throat itch before I even manage to swallow them.
Other things, that I assume are related to the OAS, don’t irritate my throat and I tend not to even know they’re happening unless someone points it out to me.
For example, a handful of times over the years I’ll be out with friends and someone will ask me if I’m crying. Confused, I’ll look at my face in the mirror and my eyes (or rather the skin around my eyes) is all red and puffy. The first time it happened, I was drinking something with Malibu in it. I’m assuming it had something to do with coconut. The other times I was drinking a strawberry margarita. I have those all the time, so I’m assuming on those occasions, there were real strawberries in it.
Coffee is another one. Every time I’ve tried to like coffee, it gave me that same itchy sore throat. I never considered that I might be allergic to it until I tried one of those drinks by Bai, which are made from the juice of the coffee cherry (the fruit around the coffee bean). Bai did the same thing to me. So I chalked it up to an allergy and stopped trying to like coffee.
The last one isn’t technically an allergy, but it sort of presents as one. A while back I noticed that if I had an itch and scratched it too much it left big red welts. The welts would get itchy and I scratch those. If I scratched those I’d start itching in other places and so on and often have a few hive type red marks in random places. I’d regularly walk into work to see people’s eyes bulging out of their faces as they asked me what happened. Usually it meant I wasn’t paying attention and scratched my neck. It doesn’t hurt, it’s just itchy, but it looks awful. Something like a little itch on my shoulder, regularly looks like this [not me] a few minutes later.
Over the years I’ve gotten very good at not touching any part of my exposed skin if I’m in public/at work.
Even just running my fingernails across my arm or neck will leave big red marks like this.
At some point I mentioned it to an allergist. I went into great detail to try to get him to understand exactly what I was explaining. He didn’t even have to think before he said it was dermatographia.
With a name I could read up on it. Turns out some people are very artistic with it. Pictures like this are very common across the internet.
Like I said, it doesn’t hurt. It’s more annoying than anything. And no matter how bad it looks, it goes away in 10 minutes if I don’t touch it.
The lil’wrekker is allergic to Caramel coloring.
No cola for her.
Her mouth gets sore if she drinks a coke.
Clear soda like sprite or 7-up are fine.
Are the cupcakes made with nut oil? On machinery that processes peanuts?
Mildly allergic to tree nuts, eat an Almond Joy or 2, piece of pecan pie, etc… About 2-3 day later I am breaking out in small pimples randomly over my body.
Wheat beer will give me a nasty headache after drinking only 1.
After eating Casey’s (local convenience store) Pizza it is almost a guarantee that I will be sitting in the bathroom about 4 hours later. No other pizza does this to me.
I’m allergic to something but don’t know what. For a while we thought it was exercise induced anaphylaxis but my allergist has ruled it out. Our best guess right now is that it’s mostly random. I nearly stopped breathing last time, but now I’m on daily meds and nothing has happened since.
My self-boycott of Godfather’s Pizza has nothing to do with the CEO’s politics; it’s because there’s something in that sauce that had me burping it into the next day (or did; I’ve avoided it that long). Again, no other pizza does anything like that to me either.
The weirdest “drug allergy” I ever encountered as a pharmacist? Enemas. 
Yeah, I’m probably allergic to those too. Actually, on a more serious note, the patient may have been allergic to the plastic in those disposable Fleet’s Enemas, and if that was indeed the case, that could be a real PITA.
I’m allergic to peppercorns. It’s a thoroughly annoying allergy, because (a) no one believes you, (b) it takes decades to convince even those who love you that you’re not just picky, and © ingredient lists that just read “natural herbs and spices” are pretty unhelpful.
Also, for most food preparation, pepper can be added at the table with no real change in quality. Sure, not for steak au poivre, but the soup would be fine with pepper in your bowl, not the pot.
(It’s only in the past handful of years that my mom was convinced, when she “hid” pepper in a dish and then watched my face swell at Sunday dinner. I’ll give her credit for the sincere apology. But not for the 40-something years of believing that I’m just picky.)
Also, hexachloraphene. According to the family doctor from ye olden days. (I think it’s mostly not marketed now. Or it was removed from the market due to general lack of safety?)
But weirdly, I can wrap myself in poison ivy with no ill effects, in spite of sensitive skin. My brother can get a rash from being downwind.
No to the first (interesting to note that they have beef in them, so not vegetarian). I don’t think I’m that sensitive to peanuts that latter would be a problem, or I think a lot more candies would be a problem.
Ingredients:
I would suspect the quality of their sanitation over an allergy. 
It was made prescription-only in the early 1970s because of this, and also because its exposure leads to a higher risk of antibiotic- and disinfectant-resistant bacteria.
I remember as a kid, going over to the houses of classmates who had older siblings, and there would often be that big white and green bottle of pHisoHex, something I never saw again until I started working in a pharmacy.
pHisoDerm Is still available, although the bottle sure looks a lot different.
I’ve seen them change several times in the years since the company was re-established. It might just be poor quality control and not different ingredients but they’ve never quite agreed with me after they returned to the shelf.
When I was being infused with oxaliplatin I was seriously cold sensitive - I could draw on my arm with an ice cube, then ‘erase’ it with a warm wash cloth =)
2% hydrocort =) my patch test gave me a hive the size of the end joint of my thumb =)
And I hyper react to the crap given for bowel prep, most people crap for 12 hours or so, I will have diarrhea for 4 or 5 days.
Otherwise, the normal penicillin, elavil [hallucinations r not fun when they are not done recreationally and when expected …] mushrooms, shellfish, anything coconut/palm …
I remember visits (at home or “abroad”) with my cousins, and the youngest had some skin issue and used Phisoderm. If I remember, it was a green cilyndrical bottle with black lettering in the seveties and eighties, and was probably fine for me. But my mom was always a little panicky lest I actually borrow Cuz’s soap.
In spite of spending almost five decades dismissing my allergy to an ingredient she used on everydamnedthing except banana pudding.
Moms are weird, yo.
Where are you that ERs offer shellfish?
Contrast media in CT’s or MRI’s quickly lead to anaphylaxis. Acetaminophen is in most pain meds, and the ones that it isn’t in make them look at you funny. Morphine for a first choice is unusual.
![[not me]](https://www.sciencesource.com/Doc/TR1_WATERMARKED/b/8/e/d/SS21241190.jpg){kind=link}
