I have no known allergies.
No allergies…except maybe I sometimes feel like my nose is a little stuffed up. But it’s definitely no big deal.
Other than the aforementioned poison ivy (which may have gone away, as it was over 30 years ago), I have no known allergies.
I used to have a terrible allergy to something in the Spring and Fall when I was growing up, but it went away. I’m in California now, so there are different plants and things and it’s a lot drier, but I didn’t have any problems when I moved back to the Midwest for a few years either. I don’t have any other environmental or any food allergies. I am allergic to penicillin and sulfa drugs, though. The penicillin allergy didn’t develop until I was a teenager, oddly. I had gallons of the stuff for chronic tonsillitis when I was a kid.
So far my two kids don’t seem to be allergic to anything.
Allergy is caused from an active immune system, not a weak one. It is an immune response to something innocuous, and non-pathogenic. Medically, we call them hypersensitivities, and the ones you are describing fall into the type I category. Drug allergies, or hatpin responses, are different but still related to your immune system attacking something it should not.
In any event, having a weakened immune system will not give you more allergies. In some cases, a lack of allergies is caused by defects in IgE which leads to increased risk for schistosomiasis, which is not really a concern in most places.
I get really bad cold sweats in my face, especially around my nose, when I eat ketchup or some yellow winegums. However I can get it by just thinking of eating those foods, I have no idea why but I don’t think it’s an allergy. Other than that - nothing.
Not an allergy, its inflammation.
While they both are part of an immune response, allergy implies a robust immune response to something innocuous. Ragweed pollen cannot harm you. However, your immune system might recognize it as something foreign and basically ‘over react.’ You would want to have increased mucus production and sneezing if you breathed in something pathogenic, which is what the response is designed to accomplish. The increased mucus and sneezing is only annoying when it is something innocuous like pollen that is causing it.
Here is the useful wikipedia on hypersensivity -
It deals with all 4 types, Allergy, drug allergy and poison oak/ivy. Type III is serum-sickness which is fairly uncommon exept in cases of complement deficiency.
No allergies here! I can’t imagine the vigilance it would take to have food allergies. Especially to things like peanuts.
I don’t have any allergies I know of. When asked about allergies to meds I say just that, “None that I know of.” Because there’s probably something out there that I’ve never encountered, on the other side of the world, that could make me break out in hives or whatever.
No allergies here. According to my mum, I was allergic to Comfort fabric softener as a kid. But I guess it was something I just grew out of.
I remember my cousin developing an allergy to make-up that literally just started one day. I remember the day it happened. As kids I spent most summers at her house. We loved to play with face paints, but one day it made her quite ill and turned her skin bright red. She’s not been able to wear face paint, or normal make-up since. Quite annoying for a 20 year old girl!
I went 24 years of my life without having any allergies, and then…$%&ing penicillin!
I’m about to find out the amount of vigilance. I tested allergic to peanuts today, short ragweed, maple, curvularia and ustilago (molds). I’ll be doing the shot therapy to increase my tolerances of some things, but they can’t do anything for a peanut allergy. I must avoid peanut proteins. I understand that such a thing can worsen over time, with each exposure. So, for now it just gives me gut cramps, the trots, and makes me generally weak/tired and ill for two days, but if I keep exposing myself to them it could send me to the hospital or the morgue.
Oh…wait. If you mean allergies in the hay fever sense, then as far as I know I’m clear. But sulfa drugs gave me hives as a kid, so I don’t get near them now. I don’t know if they use them much these days, but I have no desire for hives for some reason. Once an eye doc nearly gave me sulfa eye drops. I think if he had and I hadn’t noticed that would have made for perfectly justifiable homicide.
When I was a child, I’m told I had an allergy to eggs. As a result, I never acquired a taste for eggs, and to this day (even though I’ve been told there’s no danger from eating them), I won’t eat eggs. When I was trucking, this made things difficult: “Trucker’s Special: Two eggs any style, bacon or sausage, coffee juice, toast, $2.95, no substitutions; BLT, coffee and juice: $7:95, home fries $2.95 extra.” :rolleyes: But anyway, I hate eggs and refuse to eat them, based on that early allergy.
My wife has an allergy to penicillin. She does not wear a Medic-Alert bracelet. Question to the medical Dopers: Is she allergic to Ampicillin and other infection-fighters? Should anything happen, is there anything I should tell the EMTs beyond the fact that she is allergic to penicillin?
I’m also allergic to penicillin, something I discovered from my bad reaction to a penicillin deriviative, not penicillin itself. The doctor told me that I’m likely to have a bad reaction to anything that ends in -cillin.
My “expertise” in this is limited to the fact that I am also allergic to penicillin. No medical training, consult your doctor, blah-de-blah.
And damn! Last year I’d have been safe in this thread. Penicillin is it for me- I’m not even allergic to poison ivy.
Poverty, I’m definitely allergic to poverty
Not I, mosquitos got nothing on me. I guess they still bite me, I guess… but while everyone else is slapping and scratching, I feel absolutely nothing. No welts or itches anywhere.
No other alergies either, although codeine causes uncontrollable vomiting. I guess thats an allergy 
None here, either, including poison ivy, oak & sumac. My wife, OTOH, has many. And passed them on to the kids. Come this time of year everybody in the house is sniffling & sneezing except me.
None here. I don’t bruise either.