What are you allergic to?

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I think that I have more allergies than most, and I've also been accused of making them up/lying about them. So, what are you allergic to, and what happens to you when allergy and immune system collide?

― marianna maclean, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fish. I vomit profusely, come out in a nasty blotchy rash, and if the poisoning is very bad my lungs fill up with fluid. Awful.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought I was allergic to nothing. Because I wasn't. Then a few weeks ago, they were starting construction in my office and laid down several chemicals, including some cleaner and some rat poison. One of these chemicals I am deathly allergic to. I have no idea which one or what it is, but whatever it is, it caused a very severe reaction. I looked like I was crying all day, and I couldn't breathe.

― Ally, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am allergic to injustice.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fish, with very similar symptoms to Paul (this, the fact that we have the same noses, and exactly the same weirdly coloured eyes, makes me think that we are somehow related and it's all a horrible incestuous Thornaby On Tees thing...). My mother always thought that I was making it up, because I hate fish so much (I think it's right to hate something that makes you feel like puking) until I was talking to my gran (Dad's side) about it, and it turns out that both she and her dead sister that everyone says I look just like are completely allergic to fish.

Oh, and also certain strains of Penicillin. Again with the rash thing.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boringly, I have no allergies that I know of.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am allergic to injustice.

That made me laugh so hard I'm coughing my guts out again. Thanks.

― Ally, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have no confirmed allergies, although I suspect that I am slightly allergic to strawberries. There's some food that causes painful bumps on my tongue whenever I eat it and I can't for the life of me figure out what it is.

(BTW: Mike is a GENIUS for that answer.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this is my list:

chocolate - gives me rash on face/elbows/knees, a fever, and possibly asthma attack

bell peppers (including jalapenos) - fever, itchy eyes, really upset stomach

egg yolks - symptoms same as above, although this allergy seems to have disappated

grass - itch eyes runny nose

extremely allergic to cats & dogs (and all other furry creatures)- immediate hives/runny nose/itch eyes/asthma

pot - i get itchy when in a room filled w/ its smoke.

and additionally several chemicals which i became sensitized to when i was a chemistry student.

― marianna maclean, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am allergy free.

― anthony, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Work.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, sorry, I forgot tobacco smoke. It's funny, because I don't have the same reactions to pot (when it's pure, and not mixed with tobacco) or to incense. I think it's one of the chemicals that they treat the tobacco with or something. I get nasty itching eyes, swelling throat thingey, and it makes my ears wax up.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No allergies, but the nicer the chocolate, the more likely I am to sneeze immediately after ingesting it. This is a form of quality control.

― suzy, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yer basic dust and pollen -- thankfully I don't get bad hayfever, but then again I also don't work in a weed-heavy environment and neither do I live in one (crabgrass, another story).

My humor gene must be impaired -- I liked Mike's answer but wasn't busting up over it. Help!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cats, big bushy dogs, most colognes, some pollens & stuff, and pot, definitely pot. I get itchy all over, my eyes burn, my back aches, my hair frizzes out.

― Arthur, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bees

Wasps

Hornets

Yellowjackets (the evillest)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Celery, furry things, dust, pollen, mold, penicillin, bees...probably more.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, myself. Really. Literally. (will explain if asked)

― Melissa W, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lupus is when you become allergic to yourself, isn't it? They thought my cousin had it for a while, but thankfully, he didn't.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, in the most basic of terms it would mean "self-allergy," but that's obviously a bit too simplistic to describe/define it.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bees, codeine (awful junky i was), erethromyacin and 3 meat and veg dishes.

― Geoff, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I try to make an inspiring comment and people laugh and cough up their insides. I would make a poor leader.

― Mike Hanley, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lupus is horrid. I had a friend who had it, it was torture. I am really sorry Mellissa W

― anthony, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Barbituates. I'll never be able to hear Grand Funk Railroad the way they are meant to be heard.

― tarden, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

coffee = illness (just the smell of it makes me queasy)

― kevan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bunny wabbits. But I'm fine with other animals.

― Emma, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bizarrely, I come out in a rash when using some products labelled "for sensitive skin" (especially deoderants). Products not for sensitive skin I have no problem with.

― Madchen, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

animals, plants, some fungi, housedust mites, tartrazine — and the [insert preferred gender type here] I'm gunna marry.

― mark s, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bees, wasps, sticking plasters, penicillin, some deodorants, aspartame, ummmm there are some others that I can't remember, perhaps I should.

― cabbage, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sticking plasters make my skin go blue and blotchy.

Mints make me sneeze. As does, sometimes, thinking about sex (seriously).

― scott, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

not to go all pine fox but WTF are sticking plasters ?

― anthony, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being Unbreakable I am - naturally - not allergic to anything. Even injustice fails to bring me out in a rash.

― Pete, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chinese body healing pastey covered sheets of cloth?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony - elastoplast / bandaid (I am sure they are known by some brand name over there). This is not that uncommon an allergy, you can get non-allergenic ones I think.

― Emma, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sticking plasters=band aids

― Geoff, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight months pass...

Im allergic to protiens in my blood, and about 10 medications.

― Erin, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sorry, Erin. I bet it's a hassle having to keep up with all those pills.

I'm allergic to fucking flowers and dust; it's had me down for the count for 2 days now. Whatta weakling.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

sticking plasters also, even the hypoallergenic or sensitive ones, erythromycin, same as one of the other people on here, anaesthetics, pethidine, zinc ozinde, rulide.

if anyone could tell me what it is in the sticking plasters that causes a reaction i'd love to know

― Erin, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cat hair would seem to be in [my nose] this season.

― DG, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Penicillin and pollen. Probably other things.

― j.lu, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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