Do you suffer from allergies?

Grass pollen, and get eczema regularly on my hands caused by cleaning products can't use regular soap have to use the liquid kind with moisturiser and not too often. Rubber gloves are ever so handy, but that causes sweaty hands which also bring it on. You can't win...
 
Before moving here from the midwest whenever bugs bit me, I would be itchy like crazy in that spot. Here in NYS, they bite, but it doesn't get itchy. I hear probiotics help with allergies.
 
I think I have some sort of food allergy.

I've been getting random bouts of nausea for about a year and a half now. I've recently cut out dairy. Fingers crossed.
 
cats and dust

both make me sneeze like crazy, skin goes red and eyes water
apparently being allergic to dust is very very common most people just don't know it as they keep their houses clean

quite embarrassing when your round some ones house who doesn't have a cat lol
 
Now I'm over 50 I have fewer problems than I used to. Dust can be an issue when I empty the Dyson though, and I still have to avoid anything cat-related like the plague... especially their fleas!

This week my usual 'autumnal' allergy started. No idea what kicks it off, but it's always this part of the year. Earlier on in the year there's an evergreen bush outside my flat which sets me off when it flowers, but the cause of my current itch/scratch cycle is still a mystery. I can't find any bites, so I don't think I've picked up a feline hitchhiker, otherwise that'd be my best bet.
 
What the programme was mentioning is that children (as well as adults) these days spend a lot less time outside than when we used to, and that the good bacteria in our guts doesn't get a chance to get there - which research seems to link, having a decent amount of bacteria in your gut tends to lead to less allergies. By exposure to less clinical areas is how we develop immunity. In fact we start to build this immunity as soon as we are born, where when still within the amniotic fluid we are in a pretty much sterile environment, and by having a normal birth (non Caesarian) it is believed that the baby is exposed to their mother’s bacteria (on the way out), whereas a c-section babies are left vulnerable by avoiding the journey through the birth canal since they won't have that exposure to the bacteria on the way out. Apparently c-sections can increase a child's chance of developing allergies fivefold.
 
Back in the early 80s I was allergic to house dust, dust mites and sheeps wool but had injections for two years which fixed it.
Over the last 10 years or so I have an advanced form of dermographism which is caused by a food allergy and means I itch all over all the time.
It also means I can draw patterns on my skin which turn into hives and looks like I've been scarred.

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Freefaller said:
What the programme was mentioning is that children (as well as adults) these days spend a lot less time outside than when we used to, and that the good bacteria in our guts doesn't get a chance to get there - which research seems to link, having a decent amount of bacteria in your gut tends to lead to less allergies. By exposure to less clinical areas is how we develop immunity. In fact we start to build this immunity as soon as we are born, where when still within the amniotic fluid we are in a pretty much sterile environment, and by having a normal birth (non Caesarian) it is believed that the baby is exposed to their mother’s bacteria (on the way out), whereas a c-section babies are left vulnerable by avoiding the journey through the birth canal since they won't have that exposure to the bacteria on the way out. Apparently c-sections can increase a child's chance of developing allergies fivefold.
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And its looking like gut flora has a massive impact on many other areas of health as well. Fecal transplants have a very high success rate of transplanting the good and removing the bad colonies
. Its a very interesting topic of research atm. Maybe not so surprising when they outnumber our own cells 10:1
 
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