The return of an old foe?
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lady_kishiriaRecently I've been plagued by ocular allergies. My eyelids, particularly my right one, are puffing up, my eyes are red and watery, and the skin is scaly and flaky.
UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest was good enough to fit me in early tomorrow, so I hope I can quickly take care of at least the symptoms. For the causes, I think I'll have to be off to the allergist, because I fear this may be the return of an old enemy, food allergies.
When I was a small child, I was both allergic to milk fat and lactose intolerant. Eventually the lactose intolerance faded, so by the time I was 10 or so my parents could force me to drink skim milk with impunity. (Drinking milk, ugh, ugh, ugh.) By 2000 or so the lactose intolerance had returned, though I didn't figure out what it was until 2005.
I was also allergic to tomatoes. Both these allergies had as their manifestation swollen, red rashes, usually in the crook of my elbow or behind my knee. Occasionally the skin behind my ear would get inflamed.
So while there's a good possibility that the allergies are airborne (keeping the front window of the bedroom closed leads to my eyes being better in the morning) I'm going to cut out milk fat and tomatoes this week to see what happens. Blech. More food restrictions. I'll be down to eating homemade bread, chicken and some vegetables soon. :(
UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest was good enough to fit me in early tomorrow, so I hope I can quickly take care of at least the symptoms. For the causes, I think I'll have to be off to the allergist, because I fear this may be the return of an old enemy, food allergies.
When I was a small child, I was both allergic to milk fat and lactose intolerant. Eventually the lactose intolerance faded, so by the time I was 10 or so my parents could force me to drink skim milk with impunity. (Drinking milk, ugh, ugh, ugh.) By 2000 or so the lactose intolerance had returned, though I didn't figure out what it was until 2005.
I was also allergic to tomatoes. Both these allergies had as their manifestation swollen, red rashes, usually in the crook of my elbow or behind my knee. Occasionally the skin behind my ear would get inflamed.
So while there's a good possibility that the allergies are airborne (keeping the front window of the bedroom closed leads to my eyes being better in the morning) I'm going to cut out milk fat and tomatoes this week to see what happens. Blech. More food restrictions. I'll be down to eating homemade bread, chicken and some vegetables soon. :(
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Date: 2008-10-20 07:05 pm (UTC)Good luck! Food restrictions suck. :(
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Date: 2008-10-21 01:02 am (UTC)A severely allergic friend and I were at Denny's one night and we both ordered the Nachos. When they came out, my friend could *smell* the tomatoes in the meat - the waitress was *great* and tried to find out if there were tomatoes in the ingredients... the manager was a total and complete moron who tried to say that because it wasn't listed on their "allergy alert" sheets, they didn't have tomatoes in them. Tomatoes weren't even listed on the allergy alert sheet. We reported it to corporate and that manager received some "retraining" (and hopefully some smacking upside the head). We have since found that saying "no tomatoes, I'm deathly allergic" produces much better results.