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Skriven 2014-09-17 15:42:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: allergies 962
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-14-14  00:17 <=-

 ML>> Mmm. The cheese was probably diluting and maybe encapsulating
 ML>> the troublesome substance, but you got oversensitized, and
 ML>> bad things happened.
 NB>> Something like that...  I was attributing it to the protein
 NB>> aspect of the cheese, possibly also fat (it was generally good
 NB>> cheddar cheese)
 ML> I was thinking more of fat, which can do stuff like that.

Too bad it doesn't work for me any more...  ;0

 NB>> ... In any case, yes, it didn't work for long...  It may just
 NB>> have been that the process hadn't fully blossomed at first, and it
 NB>> wouldn't have mattered what I did or didn't do, whatever is getting
 NB>> me there would have done it's foul deeds...  ;0
 ML> That too. I'm notably un-allergic to some things that give
 ML> lots of people trouble - poison ivy and beestings among
 ML> them. The former I don't feel, though I get the urticaria
 ML> from things as silly as wool and clothes that have been
 ML> washed with Tide or similar; the latter swell me up in a
 ML> minimal way but are easily treated so the effects are gone
 ML> in a matter of hours. But I fear the day when the flipflop
 ML> occurs - it's said that sensitivity to these things can be
 ML> acquired suddenly and catastrophically.
 
I've got some sensitivities to detergent additives and such, and Richard
even more so... we mostly just are very careful what we use.  Generally
we haven't had issues with bugbites and such... although I've had a few
bad reactions lately to deer fly bites...  Yeah, I've heard about the
super-sensitivity suddenly showing up... but I'm just not going to worry
that much about it...  I avoid what I know will likely be an issue,
where possible, and don't sweat the rest for now...  ;)

 NB>>> So it may well be just some flukish thing... it might be a
 NB>>> particular wine or wines that causes the effect, too.
 ML>> I suppose, but more likely one of the incidental ingredients -
 ML>> what biocides or fertilizers those particular grapes had been
 ML>> sprayed with; not so likely the grapes themselves, as most
 NB>> Or what other incidental ingredients might have been introduced in
 NB>> the winemaking process... 
 ML> Turns out Lilli did a three-day allergy scratch test, and
 ML> it turns out she's deadly allergic to olives, and the winery
 ML> where this problem first manifested itself advertises that
 ML> it grows 10 varieties of olives, which it presses for oil.

Ah.  A bit of a smoking gun, there...  Has she had problems with olives
or olive oil in the past that she was aware of...?  Or was this a
complete surprise to her...?

 NB>> ... Mary had a little LAMB.  The doctor was surprised.
 ML> Mary had a little lamb. The chef was pleased.
 ML> Orange-and-cinnamon-scented lamb shank with Parmesan grits
 ML> Categories: fancy, New York, Mediterranean, main

Now that IS a fancy lamb....  ;)

Did Mary like the little lamb she had...?  Did she ask for more...?  ;)

ttyl          neb

... Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

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