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Allergy Results In (Mostly) This explains a lot

#1 JB07

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 09:32 AM

I had testing done for environmental and possible food allergies. This stemmed from getting a nasty sore throat regularly whenever I had shrimp. The environmental stuff has been an issue for almost a decade, but I never knew WHAT was the problem until yesterday. Kind of cool to know.

Verdict: Dust, maple trees, bermuda grass & dogs were positives. Cat probably would be too as it had a similar reaction as dog but we didn't test further. Dust was by far the most pronounced. Nuts are apparently not an issue for me. Verdict is still out on shellfish. They tested for it, and I reacted, but not quite enough to "officially" be allergic via the skin test. I just had blood drawn for the blood test. Based on the skin test results, I'm pretty sure I'm mildly allergic to shellfish. I mean, if it wasn't an issue it wouldn't have reacted at all, right? (FYI the shrimp and crab ones measured 3.5 versus the required 4 to be deemed "official")

Just thought I'd update as I'd posted here with questions on food allergies.

"You can't reason with the unreasonable"