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

[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.

[ilai]

Oof, that must have been a really severe allergy to grass. Do you take anything for it, or is it more of a "don't roll around in grass" kind of thing?

Now that you mention it, the pillow that my parents gave me had some kind of anti-mite claim on it, though I use another pillow as well so I don't know if it really works. Maybe tomorrow will be laundry night.

[jennyelfenmass.livejournal.com]

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.