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HealthyInPublic t1_itxpd8f wrote
Reply to comment by Pragmatist203 in How an allergy test works by Monkey-Newz
Oh boy. Don’t come to central TX then! We’re all allergic to cedar here! My allergist was telling me that cedar allergies are the only allergen that people come to him with and say “if you can’t fix my cedar allergy, I’m going to have move out of Austin.” Cedar is bad here.
But I can thankfully say I’m not allergic to watermelon and orange! I love both of those things! Unfortunately, my food allergy is wheat, which is lightly annoying.
HealthyInPublic t1_itxiwta wrote
Reply to comment by RandomStranger456123 in How an allergy test works by Monkey-Newz
Prick tests always have a positive and negative control. A histamine control should always have a reaction, and a saline control should always have no reaction. My controls were normal.
But “everything” was a tiny hyperbole. I also wasn’t allergic to a couple of other things that I expected to not be allergic to like eggs, soy, etc. so they didn’t cause a reaction.
HealthyInPublic t1_itx4sc3 wrote
Reply to comment by FoxWolfFrostFire in How an allergy test works by Monkey-Newz
Haha that happened to me with cedar! Everything caused a reaction besides cedar so he did an intradermal on my arm and I had a wild reaction. He determined that the first cedar prick he did on my back wasn’t applied right because I’m very allergic. Lol
HealthyInPublic t1_iy9b7a4 wrote
Reply to comment by YamburglarHelper in US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered by zsreport
> and they’re pretty indiscriminate about where they poop
Like on my windshield so it rolls down to my windshield wipers and I don’t notice until I turn on the wipers and it smears guano on my windshield
Edit to add bc my comment seemed needlessly aggressive: it’s a small price I’m willing to pay because I love those little mammals so much.