ilai | For completeness' sake

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Yeah, it was funny how big that one got. My allergist could see it very clearly from 10 ft away. "I know what you're allergic to!"

It appears to be more of a "avoid cut grass" thing. I take claritin when I know I'm going to be around allergens. That seems to work well enough for the environmental allergies at least.

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