I’m not bragging or anything but it seems like everyone I know has at least one allergy.
Pollen, Ragweed, mold spores? I laugh at you. We can include food problems as well. Lactose intolerance? Ha. I can drink a half gallon of whole milk a day, if I was so inclined.
What is a little ironic to me is that I am a pack a day smoker and drink more than I should. I would think that could cause a weakening of my immune system.
So who else is lucky in this? For the allergy impaired don’t hate me.
I don’t know that I’m allergic to any of the pollen/ragweed/dust/mold things, but I do know that at various points in the year (a couple of months ago, for instance), my nose gets all runny and I take some Zyrtec and it goes away. My mommy says that I’m allergic to tomatoes because they “turn my face red” but I don’t really believe it. My face is always red.
Also have had only one cold in eight years, and it wasn’t even a bad one at that. I am a 49 y.o. woman under a significant amount of stress with about 20 extra pounds on me.
None that I know of up here, but I won’t know for sure until I’ve been here in the spring and summer, since I moved here at the very end of last summer.
My nose is fairly runny sometimes, but that’s because it’s very dry.
No allergies. But I REALLY dislike the smell of cigarette smoke. As it tickles my nose and causes me to sneeze/cough for a little while, but then I can get used to it. But it still tickles, and I dislike the smell.
I’m not allergic to anything either (that I know of). When I was younger, my mom thought I had pollen/mold type allergies because I would have a stuffy or runny nose for months at a time, but I haven’t had that problem in at least five years. Now I get maybe one cold a year. I’m gonna guess that it’s not allergies.
OK, I admit I have had poison Ivy before. Isn’t that more of a chemical reaction versus an allergy? If not, even then the only way I get it If I am yanking weeds in the garden without gloves and even then, it is just a few small bumps.
Again, is this an allergy? I will itch like nearly any other human on the planet with a mosquito injection of saliva. Same with chiggers, oh how I hate those retched bastards.
Hopefully a medical professional will show up. I should have been more specific in my OP. I was thinking more of airborne and/or food that we eat, not critters who bite us.
But that is my fault, carry on.
I believe it’s a histamine reaction, which is the same/similar to true allergic reactions.
But I do think it’s a bit of a misnomer to say that (most) everyone is allergic to mosquito saliva/poison ivy, because I’m not sure it’s really the same thing.
Oh, and AFAIK, I’m not allergic to anything. Slightly lactose intolerant, but that’s it.
I might be allergic to marijuana. I had one hit on a joint ten years ago, & I couldn’t walk for three hours. I didn’t try that again, but I do love the way it smells.
I had an allergic reaction to some candy when I was a kid. The worst part of it was that it was forbidden candy. I was under strict orders not to eat it. “Um… Mom?”
As an adult I found that same candy, and ate it with no problems.