Arvind here back from almost becoming a werewolf over the weekend.
I am allergic to sunflower seeds and have been extremely careful over the last few years to avoid them in salads etc. However at the weekend at a so called Festival of Life, I bought a “Health” bar and was assured that it did not contain any sunflower seeds.
Well, I had a couple of small bites on the way home and by the time I had parked the car I could sense a rash coming up. Luckily I had some anti-histamine tablets at home but these normally take a few hours to kick in.
In the meantime, I had a rash all over and the skin was flaring up and the eyes were swollen. All this happened within just a few minutes - I felt like I was turning into a werewolf!
A few days later I am now recovered and rested but it was quite a frightening experience. All suggestions for a cure most welcome.
So what are you allergic to and how do you get around it? What it YOUR worst experience of turning into a ghastly creature?!
I dont have any food allergies… hehehehhe.. among the lucky few with that one, however I am allergic to pain killers anything stronger than panadol and I am as sick as a dog. A few years ago I had some major surgery, to my tummy area and during the surgery they plugged into the morphine dispenser… when I woke the nurse said “If it hurts just press this button and it will give a small abount to relieve you it cant give you to much… Yippeee….
It hurt I pressed the button, I threw up everywhere… It hurt so I pressed the button and once again emptied my stomuch… this went on for hours…. until the nurse realised I was allergic.. this was of cause after busting many staples and causing no amount of pain…
hmmmm
So its panadol for me..
hmmmmmm…….
I heard that a silver bullet does the trick - sorry did you mean cure or kill?
I am allergic to dust and mosquito bites. The dust allergy only ever means lots of sneezing. But the mosquito (or “mozzie” as we say here in Oz) seems to love my blood more than most, and causes me to break out in large raised welts. Most uncomfortable and itchy. And they leave marks that take a while to fade. Ah well…
But the worst I’ve ever looked was due to some unknown allergy that caused one eye to swell up - very attractive to trolls, I was!!
Do you know how to stop the itch from those mossies…. ?
If not let me know ….
Oh, I am also allergic to mossies! A couple of years ago a particularly hungry bunch of them got into my bedroom while I was sleeping and chewed up the back of my right shoulder. I looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame!
We went straight to the local pharmacy where the pharmacist gave me an antihistamine cream to put on the bites to stop the itching and some oral antihistamines that had a kick like a mule..they could use those things for insomnia!!
It took a week for the bumps to go down and a month for the scabs to fall off and six months for the marks to go away.
Now I have a huge net suspended from the ceiling and use it during mossie season.
Oddly, fleas won’t touch me, but for mossies, I must be an absolute feast!
I do not have any food allergies, but I am allergic to all fragrances, scents, strong odors, smoke, etc. Also, bandage adhesive and extremely sensitive to heat. This makes life difficult. I have to leave places sometimes like resturants, theatres, shops, church…anywhere there are other people. The odors will cause me to become itchy, red blotches, close up my sinuses, sinus infection and drainage, sinus or migraine headaches, etc… It is also hard because I want to take a yoga and/or Pilates class and get a really good massage, but I need to make sure it isn’t scented in the building, what people are wearing and the lotions and creams. It makes going out in public very difficult or even getting together with others. No werewolf yet.
And hopefully, CC, you will never get to be a Werewolf
Hoooooooooooowl!!!
Wow! you are the only other person I have ever heard of who is also allergic to bandage adhesive! And I am also sensitive to heat…I wonder if there is any connection there? I am not bothered by most fragrances, but the base used in Avon perfumes will send me into a sneezing fit, and cigarette smoke gives me asthma.
Sorry you were sick Arvind,
Are you ok Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwoooooooooooooooooooowwwwooohhhhh?\
Sorry.
Allergic wise I’m ok with most stuff but after 1 month of the booze and a thai detox I came out in a huge nettle-sting rash after half a bottle of champagne and 1 beer!
Then the hairs on my back, that full moon and Van Morrisons marvellous night for a moon dance came out..that changing scene from the ‘American werewolf in London” - the treking scence across the moors when they walk into the pub was filmed on Denbigh Moors, North Wales!
Does your allergy extend to sunflower OIL by the way or just the seeds themselves?
Jim, just the seeds thankfully. Otherwise I would have to avoid a lot of other foods which seem to contain sunflower oil. A strange one really.
I am also slightly allergic to Camomille tea - I guess there is a link to the sunflower seeds.
Ironic really, as I have a large sunflower on my book cover!
well i also want to visit pune.
My entire family is allergic. Most of my allergies are just inconvenient and annoying, but my allergy to bees is life threatening. Last time I was stung I got to the hospital in under 10 minutes and I was already having tachycardia. NOT fun.
So, when my neighbour came by to tell me bees were swarming in my garden shed (at the back of my property, near her property line), I had to send the maid out the confirm the severity of the problem. Ended up shuttered in my house for days until a bee guy could come out and remove the hive they were setting up.
My allergy to penicillin is no fun either: I swell up until I look like a shiny pink ballon caricature of myself and my whole body itches. My airway also swells so I snore just trying to breathe normally.
I’m allergic to a few other drugs, but they just give me annoying itchy patches…although one causes me to develop little water-filled blisters wherever the sun touches my skin.
Oddly, I don’t seem to have any food allergies except a reaction to fluid milk that causes my throat to clog up with a sudden and excessive production of mucus. Other than that, though, I don’t seem to have any problems with foods.
I have lived my entire life as an allergic. I carry antihistines and an asthma pump with me, wherever I go, as pollens, dust, mildew and moulds are my worst problems and they are everywhere. But I don’t let the allergies control my life…just modify it a little bit.