My wife developed gluten intolerance as an adult. I don't exactly understand how that happened, but for whatever reason it did. She gets sick to her stomach now if she eats and gluten-based bread, pasta, or ???? It sounds hokey to me too guys, but I can tell you she sure feels a lot better if she keeps it out of her diet. The only food allergy I have is to tree nuts. Peanuts are just fine, and I love 'em, but tree nuts can make me sick enough to be a serious concern.
I worked in a clinic where one of the surgical nurses was so allergic to peanuts, she'd have a bad reaction just from smelling them. I swear the whole peanut allergy thing is a relatively "new" thing, as I never remember them taking these sweeping steps to keep peanuts away from everyone in school, or at work.
My Grandad had the wheat chaff asthma thing like Sammo, nearly killed him the year he got home from the army during harvest time. Dr told him to move to town and get a different job. So they moved to town and he became a businessman. He now eats the heck out of locally produced honey and has no problems at all during harvest even when he's driving the combine or running the auger putting the grain in bins. He swears that it's the local honey that has stopped his allergy problems. He's 84 now and fit as most 60 year old guys so maybe he's right.
Early exposure is key to avoiding nearly all allergies.
Wheat dust will put me into instant allergy induced asthma.
Breathing without an inhaler would be a major issue.
Early exposure means between 4 and 11 months. It teaches the body's immune system to tolerate an allergen rather than fighting against it.
There is even some therapies for adults that do sort of the same thing, giving massive over-exposure to the allergen until the immune system "gives up" and stops fighting it. Can be life threatening and must be supervised.
Sounds like your dad needs to put you to work this summer a little harder while he sits back and watches that you don't stop breathing!
I kinda figured early exposure meant EARLY.
Life was miserable as a kid until I went in and got an inhaler.
Amazing difference, kinda like putting on glasses for the first time and being able to see.
And it's also a great excuse to avoid shoveling out grain bins....
"Honeydew, also known as honeymelon, is a cultivar group of the muskmelon, Cucumis melo Inodorus group, which includes crenshaw, casaba, Persian, winter, and other mixed melons."
"Honeydew, also known as honeymelon, is a cultivar group of the muskmelon, Cucumis melo Inodorus group, which includes crenshaw, casaba, Persian, winter, and other mixed melons."
Grandpa called all of the above, "piss pumpkin".
BAN THE RAINBOW FLAG! PERVERTS OFFEND ME!
"When is penguin season, daddy? I wanna go kill a penguin!" ---- 4 yr old Archerhuntress
Our last dog was allergic to corn and flea bites. Funny I know. The vet said such problems are becoming much more common in both pets and people, blaimed it on chemicals in the enviroment and food. I do know there are a lot of chemicals that act as sensitizers, which make one more likely to react to allergens.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
Perfumes and deodorants and laundry detergents and such make me sneeze and my eyes itch.
Things people call "fresh smelling" stink to the high heaven to me.
The only thing in nature that causes this reaction is hemp in the fall.
Not the male plants with puffs of yellow pollen during summer, that has no effect. It's the female plants as they're putting on seed. The "buds" as pot smokers would say.
I used to sit in a patch of it by the creek during dove season as a boy. Birds love the seeds. Now I can't get down wind of it without going into a sneezing fit and my eyes itch for two days.
It ruins a hunt.
BAN THE RAINBOW FLAG! PERVERTS OFFEND ME!
"When is penguin season, daddy? I wanna go kill a penguin!" ---- 4 yr old Archerhuntress
There is a chance the increase in gluten allergies has nothing to do with gluten at all bet rather the addition of Potassium bromate to flour. Two of our kids became intolerant to wheat products and then found out the same foods made with nonbromated flour are fine.
Our last dog was allergic to corn and flea bites. Funny I know. The vet said such problems are becoming much more common in both pets and people, blaimed it on chemicals in the enviroment and food. I do know there are a lot of chemicals that act as sensitizers, which make one more likely to react to allergens.
Has anyone known of a farmdog that was allergic to corn?
The corn is in dog food. You would not believe everything that has some form of corn in it. The worst part was that dam dog loved sweet corn, I do not know how she did it, but she would eat a roasting ear off like a shelled cob.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
OK, but did I just not notice peanut affected kids turning blue around me in school before we all knew how dangerous peanuts were?
Exactly, that's my point. How the hell did it become so prevalent today?
I have wondered this many times myself; to me it's one of life mysteries I will likely never understand. I was in my mid 20's before I even encountered anyone with a peanut allergy; now when I visit my kid in elementary school, they have signs hanging on about half the classroom doors that say "peanut allergy in this room". Apparently some kids are so allergic even being in the same room as peanuts is bad. If you ever figure this out, please let me know...always wondered WHY this is so much more prevalent today than when I was a kid.
