OT Chat (?) Allergic reactions was Re: [ HYB: questions - pollen]
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- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:06:14 EDT
In a message dated 5/1/00 9:43:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
janclarx@hotmail.com writes:
>
> I was under the impression that what the bee eats effects the chemical
> composition of it's poison. I don't know much about what bees eat, but I
> guess it has some relationship to the pollen they carry. I thought this
was
> the reason people can have major reactions to 1 bee sting, then no
reaction
> at all to the next. I have known people who carry injectible cortisone at
> all times, for fear of death by bee sting, only to find that they have
> little or no reaction to a repeat sting.
>
Usually it is the other way around - no reaction to one and then a major
reaction to the next. Actually, this is the normal way for allergies to
develop. As I understand it, it takes at least one exposure, and then a
second one fairly close to the first one to set up an allergic reaction. Not
all allergies are the anaphylactic shock type reaction which people carry
cortisone for.
RosalieAnn in retirement.
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