Real Life: “F– it, where’s the Benadryl?”
XKCD: “What if you were to somehow ignite the pollen that floats around in the air in spring?”
Onion: “New Claritin Flamethrower Incinerates Whatever’s Causing Allergies”
Me: Worth a try.
Tag: Allergies
Extended expiration dates for EpiPen after stability review
Extended expiration dates for EpiPen after stability review – you might be able to hang onto the one you’ve got longer than originally thought. Lot numbers & new dates here:
https://www.epipen.com/en/about-epipen-and-generic/supply-information
Morbid wondering: food allergy death stats
An article on a recent incident where a college student died from peanut allergy got me thinking: most news stories about people dying from #anaphylaxis are about kids or teens. You rarely hear about a 40-year old or even 30-year-old dying from a #foodallergy. It happens (which is why I still carry an EpiPen everywhere), just not as often.
I couldn’t find any solid numbers, but wrote up some speculation in my blog: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/07/age-food-allergy-death/
It occurs to me that the impending start of #SDCC is probably another factor in why I started thinking about this, as it’s coming up on 5 years since my “adventure” leaving Comic Con in an ambulance due to a peanut-laced mocha from a nearby cafe. I could’ve been one of those rare cases in my late 30s.
This is a potential game changer in allergy research.
Q&A on Allergy Cell Finding: Targeting Therapies and Predicting Symptoms to Foods
This is a potential game changer in allergy research.
Misplacing your EpiPen really makes you hyper-aware of the bulk bins at the grocery store. #allergies
Misplacing your EpiPen really makes you hyper-aware of the bulk bins at the grocery store. #allergies
Huh. I’ve never encountered issues with pepper before, of any kind, though I definitely
Huh. I’ve never encountered issues with pepper before, of any kind, though I definitely have problems with cashews. Another reason to always be prepared.
Soooo not worth the risk
Soooo not worth the risk. #candy #allergies #foodallergy #game #daveandbusters
It’s not a fad. It’s a potentially life-threatening disease. Take action to find a cure. …
It’s not a fad. It’s a potentially life-threatening disease. Take action to find a cure. #FoodAllergy Awareness Week https://www.foodallergy.org/education-awareness/food-allergy-awareness-week
when did he find out he wasn’t allergic/start eating normal foods?
I guess I should start from the beginning for the benefit of everyone.
When I was a kid, my little brother had allergies. He was allergic to basically everything. Milk, wheat, sugar, corn (specifically corn syrup) , mold, you name it. He was seriously down to eating rice bread and water for a duration during his childhood. We stopped celebrating Halloween and the candy parts of Easter and Christmas.
We would often travel downstate to Indianapolis to doctor specialists to get his arm full of shots to determine what all he was allergic to. Just welts up and down his arms, trial and error. It was excruciating for all involved (but proooobably moreso for my brother.)
When he hit his teenage years, suddenly these things were no longer a concern. He ate what he wanted, and things seemed to be fine. The end, right?
My brother told me tonight, casually in conversation while driving around, I guess for the benefit of my wife but assuming I knew, that all that was a lie. My brother was not really allergic to all those things. He was a little lactose intolerant and he did have a problem with mold, but my mom decided that he was allergic to everything, and constructed this world centered around finding more and more things he was allergic to. But my brother eventually rebelled and ate what he wanted and OH HEY i guess it was all bullshit.
So that was a shock of a thing to learn. It makes so much sense now that I think about things. My mom fakes her own allergies all the time, and what she can and can’t eat depends on when you ask her and it never lines up with what she actually eats. And once in my early twenties I told her that I had a bad reaction to eating bananas and she lit up like I’d given her this amazing gift. I thought it was odd then but now oh my lord.
Anyway.
Jesus Christ.
WTF.
Yeah, I couldn’t watch He-Man, but my brother fucking ate rice bread and water for a few years.
Holy crap. Not only is that seriously awful for your brother, but actions like this actually harm those of us who do have severe food allergies. People who encounter this type of faking and see it exposed are that much less likely to take us seriously.
On TumblrA study has estimated the economic cost of food allergies at $24.8 billion/year in the US
A study has estimated the economic cost of food allergies at $24.8 billion/year in the US, about 17% of it being borne by the health care industry and the rest by families. The cost to families includes both out-of-pocket costs (medication, doctor’s visits, specialized food, etc.) and opportunity costs in lost work productivity and, in some cases, lost job opportunities where a parent has to alter or give up a job to provide extra care.
Short article: Food Allergy’s Economic Burden on Families: $3,500 a Year (Allergic Living)
Longer article for those less familiar with what it takes to manage a severe allergy: What Food Allergies Are Costing Families and the Economy (Time)
My local Subway puts the nutty cookies on the bottom shelf to minimize cross-contamination.
The local Subway keeps the cookies with peanut butter or nuts on the bottom shelf to reduce cross-contamination. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than mixing them up or putting them on top where crumbs will fall on the other cookies.
#cookies #lunch #foodallergy #allergies #foodallergywk #peanuts #maycontainnuts @FoodAllergy