Please explain this to me....

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I seriously would like to understand the 'anatomy' of this question. I know that ANYTHING is possible. Truly, I do. But someone PLEASE explain to me how a person can declare a true allergy to eggs, yet eat the crap outta hot wings! When my patient told me this, I honestly thought this was a joke! I realize some things are not palatable to everyone but an allergy to something as relative as eggs to a chicken??? Really! Maybe some of you biology/chemistry/anatomy lovers can chime in. Thanks!!!

Don't know what "smh" means. Could you please not use txtspk, if it isn't a typo for something?

Also, some people, including many nurses who should know better, don't know that itching after morphine is common and not the result of allergy.

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Specializes in Public Health.

Smh means "shaking my head"

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Specializes in Public Health.

Yes. I am on my iphone so I can't use the smilies

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Food allergies are different than medication allergies. Medication allergies to say penicillin, and the person is usually not put on anything within that family of medications.

Food, however...someone can be allergic to eggs but not chicken.....although with a huge amount of heartburn after some hot chicken wings, and the patient may, in fact, find themselves "allergic" to that as well...

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The majority of people do not know the difference between an allergy and an adverse reaction or side effect.

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Specializes in PCCN.
Smh means "shaking my head"

I thought it was smack my head. no smliey for that.

although these could suffice :facepalm::banghead:

Carry on.

Actually, if we want to discuss allergy reactions , I found a medscape link that brought back all those nasty reminders of physiology ( I actually thought it was quite fascinating)

Medscape: Medscape Access or personal perspective, I have had " allergies " most of my life. When I was young many moons ago, I had those scratch tests to find out what exactly I was allergic to. Tested postive for cat dander, peanuts, various other things. I have quite a few pet cats; they cause me no problems. But if I go to a friend's house who has long hair cats ( mine are all short hairs) I get sneezing, itchy nose, etc. Maybe I have given my self immunity from frequent exposure to short hair cats?

Peanuts: I can eat peanut butter, no problems there. That doesnt make sense.

But on the flip side of the coin- repeated exposure to nsaids such as ibuprofen have gotten worse over time. I get terrible lower abdominal burning, sometimes my skin turns red, and I feel very hot.I used to take a million various nsaids for chronic pain stuff.

I cant tolerate any fake sweeteners like splenda, aspertame, etc( I will make a horrible diabetic :( )Very bad abdominal discomforts for days. I heard there was a cross allergy with Sulfa, which I am allergic too(hives).

Hope the article helps , and if I was more motivated , i would look to see why some of my allergies bother me , and some don't.

Maybe that's why the person can't have eggs but chicken is ok. Or as others pointed out - the proteins in eggs are not present in chicken.

ETA sorry link doesnt work I will try to find better resource

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Yes. I am on my iphone so I can't use the smilies

Sure you can...open Grn's link....each has a way to type in the smilies; shaking the head would be no with a colon placed before and after the "no", for example.

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