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Are pesticides and other toxins in our food and who knows what in our air, causing allergies? I have developed many allergic reactions from sneezing to skin rashes...

Is our way of life threatening the quality of our life?
- October 10th, 2009, 09:54 am
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Actually I can speak to this a bit, since my career is in immunology, ha ha. Finally- a way to fit in! yessssssssssssssssss

all right then. The reason older folk sometimes pick up allergies they didnt have as youngsters is simply, the immune system begins to slowly fail, the older we get. That's also why older folk are more vulnerable on the whole to influenza and pneumococcus (bacterial pneumonia causing germs).

Toss me a cracker, will you?
- October 10th, 2009, 04:45 pm
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What I have is not so much of an allergy as an intolerance. There are a lot of foods I can no longer eat, mostly due to their additives, without getting a 3-day migraine. I've noticed they're usually foods I ate quite a bit of when I was younger, and didn't have any issue with them then. It does make me wonder...

I can't eat anything with sulfites or sodium nitrite. Doesn't sound so bad, until you realize sulfites rule out anything that's cooked with wine, and it seems like everything is. The sodium nitrite means I can't have pepperoni, beef jerky, hot dogs, bologna and a lot of deli meats. I also have trouble with more than a little bit of chocolate. Red and blue food coloring give me heartburn.

Yup, it really sucks.
- October 10th, 2009, 06:00 pm
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DreamingOfJustice wrote :
Actually I can speak to this a bit, since my career is in immunology, ha ha. Finally- a way to fit in! yessssssssssssssssss

all right then. The reason older folk sometimes pick up allergies they didnt have as youngsters is simply, the immune system begins to slowly fail, the older we get. That's also why older folk are more vulnerable on the whole to influenza and pneumococcus (bacterial pneumonia causing germs).

Toss me a cracker, will you?
Here's the box... Thank you for this post, you can stick your beak in here anytime you want to... AND

I also now bestow upon you the official and very rare. prestigious AH&S geek certificate and membership of honor... not many people have gotten this award... In fact you are the first!
- October 11th, 2009, 10:17 am
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Blushes..preens feathers..caves into baser instincts and shoves entire beak up to me noggin into the coveted cracker box.

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they like me, they really like meeeee



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Here's the box... Thank you for this post, you can stick your beak in here anytime you want to... AND

I also now bestow upon you the official and very rare. prestigious AH&S geek certificate and membership of honor... not many people have gotten this award... In fact you are the first!
- October 11th, 2009, 01:33 pm
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George Carlin said (paraphrase): I have immunity cause as a kid I swam in the Hudson River....

Seems to be working for me, 'cept it's a much different river....
- October 11th, 2009, 01:39 pm
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chawks, I have that same allergy to sulfites. It is life threatening for me. That means good bye to French cooking.
All this allergy and immunity talk makes me think of the swine (H1N1) flu vaccine.
There obviously are not going to be enough doses for the healthy 48 year od. So should I be worried?
- November 7th, 2009, 10:52 am
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chawks, I have that same allergy to sulfites. It is life threatening for me. That means good bye to French cooking.
And a lot of Italian, too.

Wow, and I thought a 3-day migraine was bad!
- November 7th, 2009, 12:09 pm
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H1N1 is mainly hitting the younger generation, for once the older generation gets a break,, not that I want anyone to get sick.
Personallly, I don't want any flu vac.
- November 7th, 2009, 10:03 pm
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Yep,, we change as our bodies grow older,I am sad to think I may one day have to give up my drink,,, no not alcohol,, Coca cola, I am soo addicted its unreal. But sometimes it does a number on my tummy, so I have cut back. Sighs, its a beotch getting old!!

Why couldn't we have been born old and gotten younger everyday????

Course mom might have had a heck of time birthing an adult, LOL!!
- November 7th, 2009, 10:07 pm
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