Allergies are fire alarms.: To Joy

» biogardener - To Joy

Sorry, I overlooked your question earlier. You want to know why your allergies are not the same now as they were in your childhood. Okay. First of all, we have to distinguish between allergies or symptoms of allergies. The allergy is the body's inability to cope with certain allergens. What you notice is the body's reaction to the allergen, and that could be hayfever, coughing, stuffiness, headache, hives, and many more reactions.

I know from personal experience that those reactions change. The sensitivity does not. The reaction is always the strongest in the organs which are the weakest in the person. As a child, I had terrible hives and even worse headaches. I have neither now. In the meantime, my lungs got weakened by a bout of TB, and now it is always my lungs which react to allergens first.

I actially don't think that I had allergies as a child. I only reacted to poisons. I did, however, develop some allergies from overexposure to certain things to which I had an aversion to begin with and should not have eaten, like milk.

The things which always made me sick are not really allergens but poisons, primarily petroleum products. No amount of treatment is going to make poisons less poisonous. And I do not want my body to become desensitized to them. I stay away from them.

So you, Joy, would have to know what allergens or poisons were giving you hayfever. You will find that those same allergens or poisons are still harmful to your body, except that your reaction to them may be different now than it was in your youth. Or maybe you are no longer exposed to them.

-- posted by biogardener