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Thread #114973 Message #2459334
Posted By: GUEST,HiLo
07-Oct-08 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Oddball allergies
Subject: RE: BS: Oddball allergies
Many people have sensitivities, few have full blown allergies..or so my MD tells me. If I eat strawberries I break out in a rash, that is a sensitivity, if they caused me to go into a kind of shock, that is an allergy. My MD has also suggested that many current sensitivities are the result of underexposure and not overexposure. In other words, we have avoided so many things, particularly scents that we now have no tolerance for them. Sounds a reasonable theory to me. Public schools now note that nearly 60% of students claim to have allergies to a wide variety of things. Have we become to isolated from the world around us to tolerate it ?I just find this sudden "rash" (pardon the pun) of allergies a bit odd.