To think I can be allergic to cardboard boxes?

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Specifically Amazon boxes? Every time I get a delivery in a box and carry it into the house, after about half an hour I get bright red weals where the edges of the boxes touched my arms/wrists which are super itchy, (not just pressure marks), and my hands itch like crazy if I don’t wash them (which I always do now).

Am I just being hypersensitive or is there some chemical used to treat Amazon packaging that I’m allergic to? Googling suggests dust mites in boxes but it’s a skin reaction, not a respiratory one. Am I alone in my weirdness or are there any fellow Amazon sufferers out there? Anyone know what it could be?

YANBU, I’m allergic to them too. I have a lot of odd allergies and some involve trees so I’m guessing it’s when a certain type of paper is used. I will say mine comes up as large bumps on my skin rather than weals though.

I also have this with some boxes, not noticed specifically with Amazon ones but it is definitely certain brown boxes for me.

Could be contact dermatitis

I get this with boxes, bag handles, furniture. All sorts! It's an age thing apparently 🤷‍♀️

I am a teacher and have a child in my class who gets big itchy bumps from different types of cardboard, especially recycled cardboard.

You could be allergic to the ink.

I am not alone! So glad to know, though obviously sorry for fellow sufferers - interesting to hear it could be age related, since I’ve just had a milestone birthday and it didn’t bother me before. Not looking forward to it getting worse - bag handles you say? Paper, plastic or rope?

items sit in warehouse sprayed with insect killers
the reason not to wear clothes or any thing until cleaned

Cardboard boxes make a right mess of me. I ended up with cold sores spreading everywhere after moving house because my skin was so inflamed and itchy.

I can't read newspapers or certain magazines, either.

Not Amazon ones but iron mountain storage boxes do it to me

I worked in McDonald's when I was 17-21 and I used to get this off the boxes that the fries came in. Strangely I don't seem to get it so much any more.

Cardboard boxes are a haven for dust mites make me itch

Personally I'm allergic to good quality plastic bags. Hands swell, get itchy.
Found this out after a visit to docs as my mouth kept swelling (internally). Doc asked some questions ie had I eaten anything unusual, what was i doing at the time....
I was writing my planning up, pen in mouth.
End of a bic pen is polythene, he then asked about bags/handles etc and good quality bags are polythene.
Mine started before I was 30 so not sure it's age related.

I'd imagine they spray them with all sorts to ensure their warehouses don't get infested with mice, rats, bed bugs, various other vermin.

Rope handles are the worst. Paper can do it too.

Also consider boxes are glued together, so there might be something in the glue?

I have cardboard allergies also. Same symptoms as yourself. I believe it’s the chemical p-tert-butylphenol formaldehyde resin that used to manufacture the cardboard.