For completeness' sake

[ilai]

I went to an allergist today and got a series of skin tests. Here are my results:

Foods I am not allergic to:

• apple
• egg white
• strawberry
• wheat
• corn
• banana
• soybean
• carrot
• tomato
• oat
• celery
• egg yolk
• rye
• milk
• crab mix
• codfish
• brazil nuts
• chicken
• shrimp
• cashew
• almond
• pork
• lobster
• peanut
• black walnut
• beef
• clam
• hazlenut [sic]
• English walnut
• tuna
• salmon
• pecan
• rice

Foods I am allergic to:

• Dust mites

Okay, technically that was not a food (even if I might inhale them in my sleep--you're welcome, I'm sure you needed that image). But the two dust mite allergens did produce impressive welts on my arm. And I got to watch a five-minute educational video that was a thinly-veiled advertisement for a certain brand of pillow and mattress covers whose name I will not deign to acknowledge.

Comments

[lakmiseiru.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone with a strong dust mite allergy, I had pillow covers for about 15 years, and have not had significantly worse allergies since removing them. Vacuuming regularly, changing the sheets, and not having wall-to-wall carpet, on the other hand, are substantially more effective... yet harder to sell you things for :^)

[superjeannie.livejournal.com]

I am glad you are not allergic to hazlenut (sic).

[lokiect.livejournal.com]

this doesn't really surprise you at all, right? Good to know anyways.

I have some brazil nuts with your name on them ;9

[jennyelfenmass.livejournal.com]

I got the same video when I got my test results back about the high allergy to dust mites. Mine also showed allergies to Brazilian nuts, pecans, pistachios, walnuts, and hazelnuts/filberts. As well as grass (that one caused me to redo all the tests surrounding it), cats and dogs.

I have found that pillow covers do help with my allergies. My eyes don't hate me quite so much these days.

[narya.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's quite the list! Guess I won't be making you any dust-mite-cookies anytime soon.