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Originally Posted by Justy
I was/am allergic to cats, dogs, feathers, cigarette smoke, dust mites, grasses, tree pollens, moulds, and dairy. They didn't even try to get me desensitized to dairy, just told me to avoid it... now how am I suppose to avoid ice cream?!?! It's just insane to think that this is possible!!! I will just have to live with "hay fever" type reactions to hagen-dazz... I think this is a fair trade.
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well in any case it's clearly your only option. i mean, avoid ice cream ? that's just crazy talk. (and : holy cow, how is it possible for one person to be allergic to ALL that ? it just doesn't seem fair.)
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At least the injections brought my reactions down from "WOW, I've never seen a reaction that bad before" (said by my allergist when I first went in to get tested and all the scratch sites turned red and puffy and tried to meld together) to "I can now tolerate a cat in the house and someone mowing the lawn in the same day as I have a shortbread cookie make with *real* butter." There is hope.
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puts things in perspective... i'm allergic to acariens (sure) and a type of pollen (platane trees) probably. oh, and bees, definitely.
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Now Zelda, what is this about putting put ground-up dust mites under your tongue? I've never heard of that treatment before.
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well, maybe it doesn't exist over there... it's pretty common here. they have the injection variety as well but i'm a big baby and hate shots so much that i'd rather have to swallow the foulest-tasting liquid you can imagine, every morning on an empty stomach (well, i get sundays off
), knowing that it's full of ground up arachnoforms :shudder:.
it has to be made to order by a special lab, which takes 15 days, and it costs a fortune (luckily, it is reimbursed by the social security, or i wouldn't do it). when it arrives you have to keep it refrigerated. it comes in 3 little glass vials in a special box ; to start the vial you have to break off a plastic disk (color coded to indicate the concentration) which reveals a ring to pull which allows you to break a metal collar which is sealing a rubber stopper. after you take out the stopper you click a pump in.
the dosage is determined by the concentration of allergens in the liquid and how many pumps you take. so far i take 4. i don't know how long i'll have to continue the treatment but it is counted in years. i only started last september.