PWLWA (People Who Live With Allergy)-discuss it!
@anotherbirthday (810)
Malaysia
February 12, 2008 6:40pm CST
PWLWA must have interest do discuss this topic, and share with everybody about your experience with allergy. What kind of allergy do you have??? How do you treat that allergy??? Does it disturbing and lower the quality of your life??? What is the best solution for allergy enigma?
2 responses
@chrysz (1602)
• Philippines
13 Feb 08
I have allergies with some shellfish and seafoods. I developed allergy with chicken just recently but my grandmom said maybe the chicken I consumed was frozen and stocked for a period of time. It is really disturbing and I cannot stand the itch. I take benadryl sometimes, I even had a few shots of diphenhydramine. The vaccine works and now I was advised to take Iteraz instead of benadryl.
@chrysz (1602)
• Philippines
13 Feb 08
Zyrtec and Virlix have steroids that are not good for the liver (if my memory serves me right) . It also cause bone density loss that's why some who take it experience lower back pain and leg cramps so my doctor advised me to take calcium supplement while taking virlix. I take iterax now because they say it is more effective than zyrtec. Ask your physician before taking it.
@anotherbirthday (810)
• Malaysia
13 Feb 08
TQ for reply. I'm sorry to hear yor promlem. So how much the cost for you to buy the vaccine and medicice to eliminate the allergy? I heard that if we take a vaccine or antibody for a long period of time, then the allergy may become immune to the vaccine/antibody one day in the future. Then the medicine we obviously take to treat that allergy will not effective anymore. Is it true?
@anotherbirthday (810)
• Malaysia
13 Feb 08
I wonder if we hafta take the medicine until the end of our life. BTw, I be used to take zyrtec tablets, when I'm 17s, a tablet of zyrtec is enough to relief my allergy for a week, but mow when I'm 23, that same pill just effective less then 24 hr. I was quit the regiment since it's not really effective anymore plus it's seem to have known side effect which is not good for the liver.
@cifirretsbol (160)
• United States
13 Feb 08
i have a shellfish allergy but i'm lucky because it doesn't affect my life anymore. i don't even eat meat or fish anymore so it's pretty easy for me to avoid. the only thing i have to be careful with is that apparently it's used in certain medication and vitamins, so i always have to read labels.
@anotherbirthday (810)
• Malaysia
13 Feb 08
you don't eat fish and meat? are you vege? and don't you think that by not able to eat meat and fish is the effect of your allergy to your life??? anyway thanks for the reply
@cifirretsbol (160)
• United States
13 Feb 08
i'm sorry, i guess i should clarify. when i first developed the allergy, yes i had to purposely avoid shellfish so that was a noticeable effect on my life. however, for completely unrelated reasons i went vegetarian (including fish) a few years later. once that happened it became a moot point about avoiding shellfish since i wasn't eating any fish anymore. therefore it seemed like much less of an effect or inconvenience on my life.
@anotherbirthday (810)
• Malaysia
14 Feb 08
Oh should I become vege? Then what is the main source of protein for vege?
