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Do you have any allergies?

I'm allergic to a few pollens, most insect bites, my own sweat and stupidity in all forms.

Jill, 60
Saylorsburg
, PA  USA

Nope, no allergies to anything whatsoever.

Stephanie, 25
TX  USA

I have several food, drug and environmental allergies. Food -- eggs, peas, the sap from mangoes (if someone peels them I can eat them, but if I touch the peel I break out in a painful rash), handling tomatoes, eggplant, and potatoes also make me break out in a painful rash, but I can eat them. Plums, nectarines, apples (but I eat them anyway and deal with the hives). Most nuts, walnuts and pecans are one of my most serious allergies -- my throat closes and I break out in hives in my mouth and throat. But I can eat almonds, go figure.

Drug -- codeine, sulpha, pseudoephedrine, codeine

Environmental -- cats, various pollens and grasses.

Laura, 36
Lowell
, MA   USA

Yes.

Karen, 21
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA  USA

Mild hayfever in the spring and fall, and citrus fruits.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR   USA

Ohhh yes definitely. But we don't know what I'm allergic to. I may have chronic urticaria (had it for two years now) - we don't know. But we're still trying to find out what I'm allergic to.

etoile, 20
Washington
, DC  USA

yeah-the seasonal kind. gotta love that allegra. :)

Angela, 16
Aiken
, SC   USA

No. Although over the last couple of years, I have noticed that I get stuffed and sneezy in the Fall. Perhaps I am developing allergies.

Felicia, 35
Lowell
, MA   USA

penicillin, cats & dogs, anything with fur or anything that grows out of the ground

Melodi, 19
Gahanna
, OH   USA

I used to have terrible sinus trouble in the late summer/early fall. Now it's no more than sniffles. I had it so badly a couple of years that I went for shots every few weeks. As for medication - there's a drug used for nausea called Compazine. I was treated with this drug in my teens during a hospital stay, and had a terrible reaction; my tongue swelled up and all the muscles in the back of my neck started to draw downward...causing my head to pull up and back until I was nearly choking. Luckily, the reaction occurred during visiting hours and there were people around to summon help. That was one of the scariest things to go through.

Fisch, 45
Preston
, CT   USA

Yup: Allergies reek of heinosity. Pollen, ragwood, all that springtime crap. I also have a bit of asthma, which is totally bogus.

Mick, 30
Chicago
, IL   USA

Milk.

Jonathan, 19
Brevard
, NC   USA

Yes, to dust (it makes my nose all yucky and stuffy, and I can't breath), mold, and cigarrete smoke.

Sarah S., 17
Ithaca
, NY   USA

I'm allergic to cigarette(tobacco) smoke, dust, spring, elastic, cats, and some other furry animals. Fortunately, none of my reactions are severe, so I consider myself lucky.

Eric, 19
Beverly Hills
, CA  USA

I suffer from terrible hay fever. Between May and August every year, I have a permanant red, running nose and I'm constantly sneezing. I take medication which helps (when I remember to take it) but it would help even more if any budding scientists were to find a cure.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff   ENGLAND

`Yup. None to food really, but I have a few medications and just about  everything growing outside right now that I'm allergic to!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ  USA

Yes I do, many of them... I haven't had them identified specifically but I am always sniffling and beary eyed around this time of year. Something out there is kicking my butt right now for sure.

Maggie, 20
Sandwich
, IL   USA

I'm not sure. Ive had a bad reaction to caffiene but drink it with no terrible effects nowadays. I got stung by something once on my mouth and my lip swelled up real bad, but im not sure that's proof im alergic either.

Talia, 23
Wilton
, CT   USA

I'm allergic to peanut butter.

Kevin M.

Yes i do, to a certain medicine that I cannot spell, so I just won't bother trying.

Maria

none that I know of. . .

mothmc, 36
Los Angeles
, CA  USA

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