tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1185219031783989911.post3885542322302041811..comments2023-12-23T02:16:43.463-08:00Comments on "Rational Preparedness" : The Blog: Other Types of Envenomation InjuriesJaneofVirginiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320442534060401465noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1185219031783989911.post-29971393948971218602012-08-05T04:49:04.324-07:002012-08-05T04:49:04.324-07:00Yes, unfortunately our allergies following injecti...Yes, unfortunately our allergies following injection through envenomation or INGESTION THROUGH EATING change throughout our lives. I have never been allergic to chocolate before, but lately it seems to give me itchy skin. All our lives our allergies may shift. Joe, could you be allergic to something with which they treat the apple skin ? I do know that some people can tolerate ketchup because it is processed, but cannot eat tomatoes themselves without an allergic reaction.JaneofVirginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320442534060401465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1185219031783989911.post-75009669489330345772012-08-05T03:55:15.072-07:002012-08-05T03:55:15.072-07:00I found it in the last few years I'm allergic ...I found it in the last few years I'm allergic to apples! Weird. In fact I think it my be the apple skin. I can eat them cooked but the last time I had a slice of apple in a drink my lips and throat became very swollen and was finding it hard to breath. I'd never had an issue before.LL Cool Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13916666100971008775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1185219031783989911.post-36627801259473290502012-07-31T18:59:51.826-07:002012-07-31T18:59:51.826-07:00Yes Gorges, allergists/immunologists tell us that ...Yes Gorges, allergists/immunologists tell us that this is true. We could be allergic to chocolate as tots, and then be completely tolerant of it as teens. We can also tolerate beestings several times as children and then have a life threatening anaphylactic reaction as young adults. It can be hard to know how we are going to change immunologically, and when those seven years periods begin or end. This si why allergists periodically retest their patients for allergies. Allergy shots can also furthur modify our reactions. When I was a child, every neighborhood child who came to a local bonfire, was horribly afflicted by poison ivy one year. A couple of my friends were actually hospitalized because burning actually heightened their exposure. I was completely poison ivy free despite identical exposure. The same was true all of my life. It wasn't until last year when I was relocating some heirloom daffodils from one of the old homesites on our farm, by an old chimney, to a spot where they would get more sun, that I developed a terrible case of poison ivy on my hands and arms. Apparently, poison ivy was interspersed with the roots of the daffodil, and I am no longer resistant to it. Now, I am very careful.JaneofVirginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320442534060401465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1185219031783989911.post-58568606849654126992012-07-31T17:12:26.661-07:002012-07-31T17:12:26.661-07:00I've read (whether true or false) that the rea...I've read (whether true or false) that the reason our allergies change is that each cell in our body is replaced over the course of seven years. Since the cells we have today as adults are several generations removed from our original cells, variations between the old and new cells can create new or destroy old allergies.Gorges Smythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777621500611603786noreply@blogger.com