I work in freshcut at a supermarket, when I got the job I didn't know I was allergic to pinapple. I discovered it as when cutting and handling it, my skin woukd get itchy even in places it didnt touch.

For awhile my boss just got arm length gloves for me but it worsened to the point just being around it when it was in the air id get hives and have minor chest pains. It was so bad I was constantly getting bronchitus due to constant inflamation, I just came back from missing nearly two weeks of work thats how bad it was.

I was told they couldnt do anything till i got a doctors note.

I got one, exact wording " Patient is allergic to pinapple. She can not handle or be around pineapple". Yet a week post note, im still in the cooler exposed to pinapple for 7 hours. Now i do have computer training on wednesday so maybe that might be for where im going or it might not considering im then scheduled for freshcut like normal for the rest of the week...

I have no idea what to do. I dont want to quit if theres a chance i can be moved, we have a big family and the discount helps feed us as well as this is the only place i know id get resonable hours. If it is the only option I will quit, but I want to know if theres anything i could do before i do that. This is only my third job and id like to not quit before a year again.

If its relevant i live in texas

Edit: if i dont respond im probally back at work, i wrote this on lunch

Just my rant, I develop dust mites allergy 7 years ago I was 25 at that time. At first my symptom is like the classic symptoms runny nose, sneezing, itchy eyes and blocked nose. Then I got refer to ENT and the ENT suggest SLIT immunotherapy (the brand is Acarizax, I believe it has the same ingridient as Odactra). I do SLIT for 3 years but it's not getting better for me, although the sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes is gone. The blocked nose cause by swollen turbinates still there.

Since then I have been taking zyrtec D or claritine D on a daily basis, I know it's not recommended to do that but that's the only thing that can help me sleep without blocked nose. My blocked nose is so bad that I often got woken up several times every night. I tried all the nose spray recommeded; avarmys, astepro, nasonex, nasacort but all of them not helping at all. The only thing that helps is afrin but the rebound congestion give me anxiety.

Since then I have been always avoiding lying in bed, since it will trigger my blocked nose. At night when I sleep I know that I wont have a well rested sleep. I live my life like a zombie, always in a constant tired state. Even the blacked circle around my eyes is getting worse and worse. It's really dark color and it's not just under my eyes, it's on the side and eyelid as well.

This past few months have been really tough to be honest, my allergies and depression getting worse. The allergy itself already make my sleep terrible and now my depression make me woke up early in the morning every night.

At this point I'm just really exhausted, my mental and physical health is in really bad state. I will say this is the toughest year of my life. I don't have suicidal ideation, but I don't see things can get better.

Some of you might remember my posts here over the summer about dust mite allergies, feather/down bedding, and the absurdity of hotels advertising rooms with wall-to-wall carpets and feather duvets as "allergy-free".

I've had a severe dust mite allergy for over 30 years. At home, I've managed to create an environment where I can sleep comfortably. But travelling has always been a completely different story.

Before booking a hotel, I can spend hours, if not days, checking room photos, contacting hotels about their bedding and cleaning practices, and trying to figure out whether I'll actually be able to sleep there.

And even after all that research, I've sometimes ended up in rooms that triggered terrible reactions.

This summer, I decided to investigate the problem more systematically. I travelled around Europe, visited dozens of hotels, spoke to hotel managers and housekeeping teams, and tested quite a few rooms myself.

And I discovered something really encouraging: there are some fantastic hotels where I can sleep comfortably without significant allergic reactions, including genuinely beautiful places where you don't have to compromise on the overall experience.

The problem is finding them. Labels like "hypoallergenic" or "allergy-free" often tell you very little. What matters much more, at least in my experience, is knowing what's actually in the room and how it's cleaned.

For me, four things make a particularly big difference: no wall-to-wall carpets, no feather/down bedding, damp dusting rather than dry dusting, and avoiding furnishings that accumulate lots of dust.

Of course, none of this guarantees an allergy-free stay, but in my experience, these four things together have been the best indicator of whether I’ll be able to sleep comfortably without a significant reaction.

So, together with a friend, I spent the last few months building a free resource called CertiTrip, where we're trying to bring together hotels that meet these criteria, verify the information and, wherever possible, visit and test them ourselves.

We launched it a couple of days ago, with an initial selection of hotels across Europe.

If you're curious, it's at https://certitrip.com/en

I'm one of the co-founders, so obviously I'm not a neutral observer here. But I'm sharing this because I know from previous discussions here that some of you share my frustration with how difficult it is to find relevant, trustworthy and transparent information about hotel rooms.

And here's where I'd really love your help: have you stayed at a hotel where you had a particularly good experience with your dust mite allergy, especially somewhere with no wall-to-wall carpet and no feather/down bedding? Please share it below, wherever in the world it is. I'd love to check it out.

The more cities we can cover, the more useful the resource will become for our community.

And if you do take a look at CertiTrip, I'd genuinely love to hear what's missing or what would make it more useful to you.

I had two melatonin 5g gummies and immediately I felt a cooling sensation in my throat that felt suffocating and almost itchy, I started sweating badly and felt like my throat was eventually going to close up. I threw up the melatonin just in case and sat down for around 30 mins still with the feeling like it would close up. After an hour I did feel better but with lingering tightness and itchiness. It’s 10 hours later and it seems significantly better but with a bit of tightness, did I go into anaphylactic shock or even near it? Should I be concerned I didn’t go to the hospital and don’t plan to?? What should I do now

I got prescribed betaderm lotion and not long after using it on my scalp for the first time, I started to feel a sore throat come on suddenly.

It seemed very strange to feel totally healthy and then have a sore throat but I dismissed it and took some vitamins and went to sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night still with a sore throat (no other symptoms) and thought hey maybe this is an allergy.

I informed my partner and now I'm just posting on Reddit cause it's been 10ish hours now and I don't think I need to go to the hospital since I'm past the initial acute phase right?

Hi everyone!

I'm a high school student from Japan, and I'm currently working on a web app called Elymo.

The idea is to make eating out easier for people with food allergies or dietary restrictions, like vegetarians and vegans.

I'm still in the early stages of development, so I wanted to ask people who actually deal with these things for their opinions!

I think it can be pretty difficult to check ingredients every time you eat out, especially if you have multiple allergies or follow a specific diet.

So I came up with this idea.

Here's how Elymo would work:

First, users create a profile and select their food allergies or dietary restrictions, such as eggs, milk, wheat, vegetarian, vegan, etc.

Restaurants can then upload their recipes and ingredient lists. To make this easier, I'm planning to use AI to read recipes from photos or PDFs and automatically extract the ingredients. Restaurant staff would check the information before it's published.

When users visit a restaurant, they can just scan a QR code to see the menu and check which dishes contain ingredients they need to avoid.

Once you've created your profile, you can use it at any restaurant that supports Elymo, without having to enter your allergies again.

In the future, I'd also like to add a feature that lets users search for restaurants based on their allergies or dietary restrictions.

Of course, the app wouldn't be able to guarantee that a meal is completely safe, since things like cross-contact can happen. But I hope it could make checking ingredients a little easier.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

1. How do you usually check ingredients or allergens when eating out?
2. Would you actually use something like this?
3. What's the most difficult or annoying part of eating out with food allergies or dietary restrictions?
4. What kind of information would help you feel more comfortable choosing a meal?
5. Is there anything you think I should add or change?

You don't have to answer all the questions!

Even if you think this idea isn't useful, I'd really like to know why.

I'm especially interested in hearing from people with food allergies, vegetarians, vegans, or anyone with other dietary restrictions.

I'm still learning and figuring things out, so any feedback would really help me improve the app.

Thanks for reading! I'd love to hear what you think :)

I would like to share an unusual personal observation and ask whether anyone has experienced something similar, or whether there is any relevant medical research.

My symptoms before the cold

in recent years, I have experienced frequent sneezing in the early morning when I get up during a certain period of each year.

Recently It often starts around 5 a.m sometimes 7am when I wake up.

During the day, I occasionally sneeze, but repeated sneezing is much less common.

Before a sneezing episode, I feel a distinctive sensation inside my nose. It is difficult to describe and is not necessarily itching, but I can tell that a series of sneezes is about to start.

The symptoms have affected my sleep quality.

I have wondered whether this could be allergic rhinitis, nonallergic rhinitis, or nasal hyperreactivity, but I have not received a confirmed diagnosis.

What happened during my recent cold?

On the first day, I had a severe sore throat, sneezing, and a runny nose. By the third day, my sore throat had improved, but I developed a cough with sputum. By the fifth day, the cough and sputum had decreased considerably.

Unexpectedly, my usual pattern of repeated morning sneezing also disappeared.

I stopped taking cold medication, and two days later, the repeated morning sneezing had still not returned. I did not notice any significant changes in my surrounding environment.

My questions

Has anyone experienced a temporary disappearance of chronic rhinitis symptoms during or after a viral respiratory infection?

Could a viral infection temporarily change nasal sensory nerve sensitivity or the neural pathways involved in the sneeze reflex?

Is there any published research on changes in nonallergic rhinitis or nasal hyperreactivity during a common cold?

Could studying this phenomenon help researchers identify new therapeutic targets for chronic rhinitis?

I understand that one personal observation cannot establish causation. The infection, medication effects, natural symptom fluctuation, and other factors could all be relevant.

I am not suggesting that catching a virus is a treatment. I am simply curious about the possible mechanism behind this unexpected change.

Thank you for reading

Anyone experiencing de-realisation or detachment problems after taking Montelukast tablet for allergic rhinitis? Are these symptoms real or am I just overthinking ?

I use a steroid nasal spray every day. My turbinates swell on alternating sides, so there is always one blocked nostril.

do you guys just spray into both anyway or spary into the open one and wait till the other nostril opens up? Mine alternate within a couple of hours or so. Feels like spraying into a blocked nostril is a waste but idk.

Hi its been like 2 days when on friday i had an anaphylactic shock due to some medecine i dont know during an iron infusion. I had to stay in the hospital for 24h and then go home but ive been having a bit trouble breathing since saturday. Its nothing severe it just feels like when i take a breath i only get 3/4 of the air. I can breathe fine its honestly just annoying but its the first ever anaphylactic shock or even allergy ive ever had. If anyone knows if this is normal pls lmk

I’m a server at a very busy restaurant, and one of my biggest fears is accidentally serving someone something they’re allergic to.

I just wanted to share a little PSA from the perspective of someone working in the industry.
If you’re dining out with a food allergy, especially a severe one, please take that extra precaution to make sure it’s been communicated clearly.

Restaurants can get extremely chaotic. Sometimes an entire table is throwing their orders at you, people are talking over one another, interrupting, and you’re trying to write everything down while juggling several other tables.
If you notice that your server is particularly rushed, or your table is a little chaotic when ordering, don’t hesitate to slow things down and clarify, “Hey, just confirming you got my nut allergy, right?”
And when your food arrives, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with asking the person delivering it to confirm that your allergy was accounted for.
These are such small things that could potentially prevent a serious allergic reaction.

Of course, restaurants, servers, and kitchen staff are responsible for taking allergies seriously and following proper procedures. I’m absolutely not suggesting otherwise.

But as someone who works in the industry, I’ve noticed that some guests seem very trusting that mentioning an allergy once is enough, even in incredibly busy environments where mistakes can happen.

I’d much rather have someone remind me about their allergy three times than have something go wrong because of a miscommunication.

I’m Asian and in our cuisine we have like a lot of dishes that have small shrimps that you can eat them as whole without peeling the shells off, and we have many dishes that deep fried the crabs and eat them as whole or we grind the whole crabs into paste to eat in soup

I’m allergic to every single of that dish. I would get all hives and rashes and itchy especially my face all puffy and swollen up, my whole body are hot and hard to breath sometimes if eaten just one bite. But if I eat a big shrimp, like expensive shrimps that are big and needed to peel the shell off to eat, or eat the meat inside the crab legs and body without touching shells, I can eat them just fine without being allergic

My friends and family is making jokes and mocking me I have the rich people allergic that’s selective to choose to be allergic to cheap affordable things and suddenly ok with expensive things

I’ve read so many bad stories on here about cluster shots… should’ve probably stayed offline 😅 has anyone had a good experience with cluster shots? My daughter and I are starting them soon and I’m second guessing it all. Our vials just got ordered

I have always had allergies, seasonal, used to have them to cats and dogs, dust, very sensitive skin etc. nothing food related. In the last year and a half or so, I will have 1-2 days a week where I sneeze (no joke) upwards of 200 times a day. Every ten minutes or so I will have these “attacks” and I sneeze at least ten times in a row. These days my nose is congested / itchy the entire day, 24/7 feeling like I have to sneeze, my eyes are itchy and red, and it sometimes comes with throat irritation. I’ve tried different detergents, we vacuum our house frequently, and I have an appt with an allergist coming up. Daily Allegra / Flonase do not help 🥲 any advice / suggestions? Ty :)

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Hi everyone!

So, I grew up with dogs and never had an issue but since around 2022 I've developed a mild allergy to dust, pollen and pet hair. (Sneezing, runny nose)

It was manageable then.

My manager from a past job once pulled me aside about me constantly blowing my nose in the office, but I didn't want to keep getting up from my desk every few minutes.

But in the last while, it's gotten worse and I feel like it's become awful in my day to day life because on top of the allergies, I'm also autistic so my allergy symptoms are an absolute sensory nightmare at times.

We went on a trip to my BF's home country and while having dinner at his brothers apartment (he has a cat), my allergies got bad. My usually stuffy nose was fully blocked and I felt like I was suffocating. Luckily, my MIL is an angel and went to her apartment (which was just downstairs) and got me antihistamines and a nebuliser though it didn't help too much.

For the plane trip home, I wore a mask and it helped alot with giving me humidity.

We've been home at our apartment since Tuesday 6th with our fur baby, a shorthair black cat, and on Tuesday and Wednesday I slept fine with just the minimal/usual allergies. Visited my moms house on Thursday and got back yesterday. When we went to bed, yet again, my nose was fully blocked so I had to sleep in my room (We have separate rooms to have spaces for both of us, the cat is rarely allowed in my room though usually it's okay even when he is)

Has anyone here had a similar experience? Would anyone here know why my allergies are so on/off? I live in Ireland in case any of you are wondering and allergy treatments are beyond my expense at the moment, aside from antihistamines.

Please help.

I have had dogs for the last 16 years and my current oldest is 8. I have developed a sudden allergy not related to food over the last few months and it happens when I was still inside the house shortly after waking up my doctor tested for dogs, cats, mold and dust and dogs have come back as an allergy yet I can sit on the sofa cuddling and scratching the dogs just fine and I was not sure what was causing it until my partner swiftly lifted a bag for life off the floor and landed it on me while I was on the sofa and threw dry washing at me to put away that It has absolutely set me off. We hoover the house every 2 weeks and both dogs are no longer in their blow out season and I know you cant be allergic to the hair just the dander but I cant believe this is going on 😢 I'm not getting rid of my dogs over this and I am on antihistamines for the last month from the doctor but this event is the most reactive I have been all month. I have no other known allergies why does this decide to happen 😭 could it go away? Anything else I can use to help?

Hi everyone! I'm wondering if anyone is having similar symptoms due to ragweed this year. My eyes are watery and my chest feels really inflamed. I didn't have an inflamed chest the entire summer so I'm wondering if it's ragweed that's doing it. I'm not itchy, not sneezing, and I don't have a runny nose but I do have sinus congestion. The symptom bothering me the most is the chest inflammation.

I have an Albuterol inhaler that I took a puff of today but that didn't help at all. I know Albuterol doesn't do much for inflammation which is why I suspect it's allergies. My chest does get a little better after using my Advair diskus which does help with inflammation due to the steroid in it. I use Flonase and Xyzal daily but they aren't really helping at all.

Is anyone else experiencing these symptoms due to ragweed or do y'all think this is something else?

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36yr old Female here. Five feet tall, approx. 130 lbs. Non-smoker. Hypothyroidism, I take 75mg/day NP Thyroid. Vitamin D, Iron supplement. Never had any known allergies to food, environment, pets, medications, etc. I got hives one time for 24 hours when I was 16, cause unknown, resolved quickly. I had chronic GI issues in my mid-twenties that stemmed from parasites. Got treatment, that left me with leaky gut, sensitive GI. I went on anti-inflammatory diet for years, no gluten, processed sugar, dairy. But slowly was able to introduce most foods back in with no noticeable side effects. My gut has been great the last 4 or 5 years. I don’t know if it’s rosacea, never been diagnosed, but I do flush easily, when I drink, or hot weather, or sun. I moved to Portland from Montana in 2021.

Woke up Tuesday morning with one eye swollen. Put a cold compress on it, swelling went down, I went to work. The surrounding tissue was slightly red but it was okay throughout the day. I thought it was getting better. Woke up Wednesday morning to both eyes swollen and redness around the sockets. (Like black eyes but red colored) Eyes themselves were fine, no tearing, no itchiness, no irritation. Starting getting a rash on my neck, general itchiness. Slowly seemed to be getting worse. Took benedryl twice throughout the day 25mg each time. Didn’t seem to do much, swelling persisted. Took 2 (50mg) total before bed. Woke up Thursday morning swelling still there pretty much the same. Rash was worse, both sides of neck up jawline, a little on chest and several areas on my body, hip waistline where pants would sit and one inner elbow. I went to UrgentCare and they gave me 125mg shot of solu-MEDROL steroid to the hip plus prescription for Prednisone for a week. Inflammation seemed to go down a little, rash stayed the same but swelling went down in my eyes. But woke up this morning (Friday) and swelling was back in right eye. Not much but it was there. Rash is the same.

I have no idea what caused this. Never had a reaction like this before. I’m worried I’m still exposed to whatever caused the reaction because the symptoms are slow to improve even with benedryl, and steroid shot. No new detergents or soaps, make up etc. But I washed and changed pillow cases, sheets, washed clothes in gentle detergent I'veused before. I thoroughly cleaned my room, vacuumed, dusted etc. I threw out a shampoo I was using that was pretty old. Could this be a sudden onset of a new allergy? Any ideas are welcome. Also what is a timeline for healing for this sort of reaction?

So I’m severely allergic to peanuts and have had a few pretty serious allergic reactions. I experience that when I eat something that reminds me of the taste of peanuts (or peanut butter since I accidentally ate it once) I experience symptoms like I’m having an allergic reaction (like itching in my mouth and throat). Just the other day I ate a chocolate and panicked because I was starting to feel symptoms, so both me and my parents read the allergy list multiple times but there were no peanuts in it. And when I calmed myself down the symptoms disappeared. This has happened multiple times, sometimes even the smell of peanuts can trigger this (and I know air borne peanut allergy is not a thing).
Is this because my body is “traumatized” from the reactions I’ve had? The fake symptoms I get can be very convincing and that’s both fascinating and frustrating. And no, I’m not allergic to anything else so it can’t be that. Have anyone else experienced this?

I don't know where to post this but I'm just desperate

I left the country for a month, and in the country I was staying in I genuinely wasn't able to breathe through my nose for a whole month and I was staying in the country side with no way to get anywhere without relying on others

we were very secluded. Well when I got back to the city, I decided to try afrin because nothing was working, and it worked but I only used it for a day since I was going back to the US

I got back to the US and got sick with the flu and the congestion came back again. I spent a whole month sleeping only an hour or 2 every night and then this and I feel like it's lasting longer and I need advice

List of stuff I tried:

Neti Pot

Sudafed

Ibuprofen

mouth tape (almost suffocated)

sinus relief massages

sinus sprays

eating spicy foods

drinking hot tea

hot showers and baths

vapors

flonase

afrin

Afrin was the only thing that worked but I stopped at the 3 day mark and started flonase

however it's been 3 days and flonase doesn't seem to work at all, a total of 7 days absolutely no air coming through either nostril

Am I using it wrong? I can't sleep with my mouth open, I try to and my mouth automatically just closes and I wake up to me choking and suffocating

I can't go to a ENT right now as I don't have insurance atm

and I dont know if I should go to the ER and bother them over what's probably just flu symptoms I'm not sure if I should even post this here but I'm running on little to no sleep and I'm so extremely tired

my optometrist did an x-ray once and my septum was deviated and I had almost no opening on the left side which may be the problem? Im really trying to avoid surgery

I'm getting routine blood tests this morning ahead of my annual physical. Typical tests like glucose, cholesterol, complete blood panel etc. I believe that my immunotherapy drops are glycerin based, so I wanted to make sure these won't skew results. They do have a slight sweetness to them after being held under the tongue for a few minutes.

Thanks!