Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote:
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> "Arri London" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> >
> > Not a single item LOL. She is a happily married Filipina with children.
> > Don't think she's changed her hairstyle since she had the first child
> > and never wears makeup to work. My real guess is that she likes crab and
> > has never heard of anaphylaxis!
> >
>
> That's my mother! :-) My mother is also a once happily married Filipina
> (now widowed) with children. She hasn't changed her hairstyle since the
> 70's and wears very little make-up (foundation and sometimes lipstick). And
> (here's the connection) she'll eat things she knows she's allergic to. She
> loves shellfish but sometimes gets hives from eating it (it depends largely
> on the freshness), loves peanuts but sometimes gets hives from eating them
> (probably has something to do with preservatives), and loves tomatoes but is
> allergic to nightshades, too. Why does she do it? Just because she loves
> them, and she's not going to let a little thing like possible death keep her
> from them. She keeps around antihistamines and has only had a very very bad
> reaction once (about 20 years ago, and it was the first time she had ever
> had a reaction to shellfish--prior to that she had no problems with them).
>


Thankfully I don't have any food allergies; just pollens which are
unavoidable.
Don't know if I'd eat something I was genuinely allergic to; all those
years spent studying and working in immunology have left their mark LOL.