It seems like most people are allergic to something, but I can't think of anything I'm allergic to. Cigarrette smoke bothers me, but I can't say I'm allergic to it. I work in cigarrette smoke filled environments everyday at work.
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Pennicillin. I get springtime allergies sometimes, but not too bad.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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I used to be allergic to strawberries when I was a child. Luckily that seems to have passed.
I am allergic (or at least I have an allergic response to) dentist's etching acid.
Also, days when the pollen count count is very high, and when there's significant amounts of dust or air borne pollution, my eyes itch. But I don't get hay fever.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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Cats, cigarette smoke, burning wood, certain grasses and trees, certain molds, ragweed, certain perfumes. When I was a kid I was sick almost all of the time. When I moved away from the cat my allergies virtually resolved. It is known now that allergies can synergize. Continuous exposure to one allergen can increase the sensitivity to other allergens which otherwise the person would have a very weak response to because the continuous exposure to the primary allergen sort of stokes up the system. It can also produce an esagerated non-specific hypersensitivity. Certain things like smoke and other strong odors will produce runny nose and sneezing in most of us once the offending agent reaches a certain concentration in the air. Chronic allergies crank up the system, causing the sufferer to react at lower concentrations."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
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Every type of grass.
I also used to be allergic to wheat, yeast and potatoes, even though they invoked very little reaction (especially when compared with grass)."Corporation, n, An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Pepper.
It's not really an allergy, because I will not be sick or ill, it is more like hyper-sensitivity.
Put pepper in my food and I'm totally unable to tell what I'm eating.
Today if you put a very little bit of the gentle one (white?), it's OK, but when I was a kid even a pinch in 50 liter soup was too much.The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.
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