Allergy Blood Test?

greenwitch
Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:19:42 +0000

The allergist will give you a skin prick test, and may inject tiny amounts of allergens just under your skin. You’ll probably find out you’re also allergic to mold, which includes leaf mold, and that will explain why you got sick after raking. There are a lot of things out there to be allergic to! If you get the allergy shots treatment, it doesn’t cure it but it sure takes the edge off.

Also, we inadvertently took a “pollen holiday” this spring. My D’s spring break was the week before Easter and we went far south, thereby missing the really bad week of oak tree pollen. Had a nice week in a place that had passed all the tree pollen phases, and came home and it wasn’t too bad anymore. I wish we could do that every year!

Vkkesu, a similar thing happened to me when I bathed my dogs. They are Maltese and don’t shed so they’re tolerable even if you have allergies but they must still have some dander. I bathed them both once and could barely breathe by the end of it. I wonder what the specific cause was. I’ve had to comb them thoroughly recently and was fine with that.