To think you can overcome most allergies

[Hehoe]

I am not talking about the big allergies like peanuts etc. I mean pet allergies and intolerances.

Excellent question and be fair I've recovered from allergies triggered by a vaccine reaction in 2003.

I was pretty much allergic to everything chemicals, food, hair dye, cats, dust and wasps in particular to anaphylactic levels until about 2017.

I've constantly carried an epi pen and actively avoided wasps.

I'd have to be pretty run down now before I got a hint of an allergy to cats or dust.

And I got stung by a wasp in 2019... nothing beyond a normal sting 🤷‍♀️

I wish I could get over my intolerance, but as I have coeliac disease it’s unlikely. Maybe you could tell my Gastroenterologist consultant your groundbreaking reasearch, as I’m sure he has lots of patients who would benefit from overcoming their intolerance to gluten.

I have a bunch of allergies (cats, dogs, horses, dust, leaf mould, pollen, certain washing powders etc). They are relatively mild and my response can vary (which an allergy doctor once told me is normal), though I take an antihistamine most days of the year. The number of things I'm allergic to has increased over the years and I haven't yet 'recovered' from one.

I also developed a food intolerance a few years ago. No signs of that one going anywhere either, though I can sometimes eat a very small amount of the offending items without effect.

What a load of crap, of course you can't! Repeated exposure to allergens is likely to lead to an increased risk of severe reaction, not a reduced risk! (As much as I wish the opposite was true!!)

I haven’t got any research backing this, it was a question not a statement that came from DH having a dairy allergy when younger but not now. No need to attack me! Bloodyhell

Are you one of those bloody pet lovers trying to crowbar a cat or dog in the home of someone with an allergy?

Ah, xpost. Those people are the pits.

You know what you're right! Tbh everyone has an allergy these days and does nothing to try and stop it! It's shameful! They didn't have these allergies in adulthood 100 years a go. (I wonder why?!)

You've made me realise I really need to go and eat a lactating cow covered in tree nut butter, dog hair and eggs. If I'm lucky they'll be a guinea pig I can rub against my face as I feast 👍🖕

Urgh, x post.

It's common to grow out of a dairy intolerance. Allergies, not so much.

I work in a university medical faculty which runs a Masters degree in allergy for doctors, mainly paediatricians. I'm sure the academics would love to hear how you think their patients could just "get over" their allergies.

You can get used to the allergen and not react anymore over time or outgrow it i think. We got a cat a year ago and both my kids and myself started sneezing the moment she moved in. GP told me to get rid of the cat, but my homeopath suggested to wait and said theres a chance we will get used to it. Its been over a year now and we can cuddle her close to our faces with no reaction.
Ive had hayfever since i was a little child though and despite growing up in the country, having horses, sleeping in the stables as a kid etc. I never got used to that and it just kept getting worse.

I dont think you can actively get rid of your allergies.

We get this too, yet DS1’s fish, shellfish and milk allergies are more severe than his allergy to peanuts and nuts.

Some children do grow out of milk allergy. But this doesn't always happen and doesn't tend to happen with other allergies

Spoken with the arrogance of someone who's whole life isn't plagued due to allergies.

You didn't say that in your opening title though did you OP?

@Hehoe, your thread is remarkably lacking in understanding (aka tolerance), and therefore dismissive of people with allergies, and also lacking in any backup in the form of scientific research.
If your intention was to be cynical, you've massively missed the mark.

LOL

Allergic reactions often get worse on each exposure and can appear at any point in a persons life. My df died in his mid 60s from anaphylactic shock, coroner couldn’t identify what he had reacted to, he’d had 2 prior reactions that he’d dismissed. It is rare and he was really unlucky, but allergies do need to be taken seriously.

To be fair, people can stop being allergic or have a reduction in severity of symptoms, but to think that only peanuts cause serious reactions is ignorant.

So so thick

🤣🤣

But yes OP, WTAF are you talking about?!

How appropriate that the question under this tripe is ‘HOW PREPARED DO YOU FEEL FOR BACK TO SCHOOL 2022’.

I got over a cat allergy by being stubborn and not getting rid of the cat.

Well interestingly my mother had awful asthma when I was a young child and then it went never to return. My son had asthma as a toddler which faded away gradually when he was around ten. On the other hand my youngest who grew up with cats and dogs went away to university, now whenever he comes home he needs piriton. We don't know if it's rural living or the pets. I got asthma from keeping poultry.

I have heard of desensitizing being a possibility but my gut is much happier with gluten and lactose free food post menopause