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- When you think of allergies, you likely think of pollen, cats, or maybe peanuts. But did you know there are some people who suffer from extremely strange allergies such as the sun, water, or exercise? Join Michael Aranda for a fascinating episode of SciShow all about the world of strange allergies!
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i'm allergic to heat, though less so as an adult than when I was a kid-- a hot shower makes me break out in itchy hives. my cousin is allergic to any sudden temperature change, hot or cold-- so both showers and swimming are hard for her. nice to see it talked about here, since I've had a handful of interactions where I mentioned this to people and they flat-out didn't believe me because they didn't think it was possible. immune systems are weird!
Yay! I was so tired of people either thinking I was a liar, crazy, or both. Or worse. Sometimes, I'd have scratched an itch, and people would either think someone had hurt me, or I had been doing self-harm, and I was lying about it. Several times, I literally had to do a demonstration, like a circus freak.
I have the same thing I also get this when I exercise or it's cold outside. :( My mum had an anaphylactic reaction while working out once and had to go to hospital.
I am trying to talk to doctors here about having trouble with heat. I mean anaphylactic shock level stuff. But I am not sure yet if it's an allergy...or a symptom of some disease. Anyway...I will keep looking for explanations with this weird stuff....
My allergy to heat was worse as a kid too. I couldn't even sit next to lamps without being completely itchy.
@@injunsun I have the arguably silly hobby to ask around
if someone wants more science youtuber to check out aka recommendations that are science
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Imunne system: AAAA THREAT! ALERT!
Water: Im good for you! An ally!
Immune system: Thats just what you want us to think.
Lol
My body @ the sun
I have the water allergy but mildly. Showering and sweating gives me light hives that look and feel like mosquito bites and I can drink water with no problem. It's just annoying...
Body: YOU STEAL ELECTEONS N STUFF YOU'RE EVIL
water: AIR DOES THE EXACT SAME STUFF WHY DONT YOU ATTACK IT????
@@eleniel917 The same thing we call inflammation is what the body uses just to move blood around. Humidity is a vasodilator - it causes change to the location and concentration of blood. Your body is responding TOO HARD so that normal blood movements = actual allergic reaction. I am also allergic to humidity (and all forms of heat, and sunlight) because these are all things that trigger vasodilation (aka inflammation)
I'm allergic to my own sweat. Yes, it was diagnosed by a dermatologist. If sweat remains too long on my skin, I get hives on that area. I have to rinse it off quickly after exercise. During spring and summer, depending on the weather I have to shower at least 2 or 3 times a day, or else I get hives on the inside of my arms, armpits, around my neck, groin, and behind the knees. Generally I deal with it by rinsing with cold water and not scratching .If it gets too bad, I have antihistamine cream.
Gumaro R. Villamil Yeah I am too, except it's kind of inconsistent. Sometimes I'll be completely fine, and other times I'll break out into full hives especially on my legs and it can be quite painful too
I am also allergic to my own sweat. I get hives in the same places as you do. As soon as I start sweating, I start itching.
No. 4 water
That seemed relatable enough for me to think 32 people on the planet is much too low. I think what you have isn't that uncommon
There are some very good antiperspirants available by prescription that can be used all over & last over a month. (they aren't fun to apply but better than alternative!)
that sucks. i live in singapore where it’s extremely humid every single day so i’m pretty much always sweating. i also have a high body temperature and easily sweat.
I went through a period when I really thought I had a water allergy, as each shower would render me useless for an hour or so afterward, just lying under my sheets, clawing my arms and legs nonstop, due to the itching that was beyond itching, like thousands of stingy electric shocks occurring. For some reason it was mainly my upper arms and thighs, but also butt and stomach to some extent. And yes, sometimes my trachea would spasm and feel tight, like after crying. I tried all kinds of things and even considered getting an expensive filter on my shower, but even rain or just high humidity could trigger severe itching so I knew it wasn't anything in my city's water.
Then one day I tried applying coconut oil in the shower, after reading a tip about it. But all it did was leave me greasy; hot water didn't rinse it completely away, nor did a towel. And I was still left itching like crazy as usual, but the nice thing I noticed was the lubrication of the oil made scratching more effective ....then.... I noticed something gross: grayish colored oil collecting wherever I raked it, meaning dirt. So I grabbed a plastic bank card and started scraping it from my upper arm, kind of fascinated at this point. And the craziest thing happened; I saw all these tiny, nearly transparent hairs spring up from the skin wherever I'd just scraped, kind of slowly like a butterfly coming out of its' cocoon. It turned out all the places where I thought my skin was just bumpy was actually TONS of ingrown hairs, and getting moist aggravated them. Since then I have just made a point to exfoliate extensively a couple times a month, and never had the electric post-shower itch ever again.
Woah DAMN thats interesting
Interesting! Thoroughly grossed out, but interesting!
i was going to tell u to exfoliate but u beat me to it. my legs itch when im coming out of the shower when i need to exfoliate.
@@sprinklescake1137 Well certainly I had heard the term 'exfoliate' before, but only as a beauty tip for the face, ha. And I had used apricot scrub since I was a teen in the late 80's, for my face. But all that the rest of my body seemed to need was mere wiping with body wash and rinsing ....until my late 30's. Apparently by then changes had occurred without me noticing. I remember my daughter who was just 6 or 7 sitting next to me when I was wearing a tank top, tracing her fingers on my upper arm and asking why it was so bumpy. I was like, "I dunno, some people are just bumpy," without realizing I didn't USED TO be bumpy (nor red, god my upper arms had gotten so angry red by that point). And it was not long after that when I made the accidental discovery that, in reality, big areas of my skin were encased in a layer of dirty dead skin. Now I'm non-bumpy, non-itchy, and all the same color, LOL.
@@statelyelms Oh it's thoroughly gross, I agree. Just keep it in mind if you're still in your 20's or younger: some day your skin will be "higher maintenance" than it is now. And the need to exfoliate is just one example, lol. Now I'm 48 and I could tell you all about my 2 humidifiers and humidity gauge made for a reptile aquarium that I keep handy to read all through the winter, or I'll wind up with the electric zap clawing all over again, exfoliated or not!
I used to know a girl who was allergic to cold, she lived in Chicago, which really sucked because whenever she walked out into the cold she would break out in hives, not extremely severe though.
I was across the Lake from y'all. I moved to Tennessee to escape the cold, because I used to have that issue. Lucky me, I got HIV and EBV simultaneously, wiping my entire immune system. 🙄
I can't be in direct sunlight or get too hot or I start to get itchy. Awesome when you live somewhere sunny with a poor excuse for winter.
I have this, though I didn’t know it was a real thing! My face swells up if I get really cold. When I was about 10 my mother took me to the doctors at a major hospital. Doc thought we were nuts and got an ice cube to hold on my cheek. It was a square cube and I got a square swelling. This was in the mid-60s and basically I was told not to get too cold. In Boston.
I am allergic to both cold and hot. It's quite the "game" to play personal thermostat especially in the brutal winters and fippin hot summers.
@@XSemperIdem5 I have a similar problem; when I sweat in the sun, I break out. It is odd.
You know what else isn't fun? Finding out you're allergic to Morphine after a huge and painful surgery. It makes me feel like some huge weight is pressing down on my chest and I can't breathe. Now imagine that after a surgery inside of your chest... Yeah...
i had that and was told its normal unless you really couldnt breathe than thats not normal
I was taken to the ER by ambulance once for what was basically salmonella food poisoning. I was so weak from being dehydrated and in so much pain. They gave me some anti nausea medication through the IV and I immediately went into anaphylaxis. Can't imagine that plus a surgical incision, yikes.
I discovered I was allergic to it after I fell and sprained half my body. Vomiting and diarrhea when you can't move without screaming.. I understand your pain.
Same here! I had a growth that died in my stomach so I went in for emergency surgery and afterwards I had Morphine. Yep, almost died then too!
Opiates make me see dead people so I stay away from them.
brain: produce this hormone
body: k
body: *produces hormone*
body: OH GOD WHAT IS THAT KILL IT AAAA
brain: wh-
body: AAAAAAA
Your immune system initiates an immune response, not your brain.
@@buryakulikov2415 That's how they wrote it
@@cookeymonster83 To be fair, both brain and body begin by being barely differentiable -- I had to read the OP like 5 times.
when your allergic to antihistamines and really any other form of allergy relief, things get interesting
I’m allergic to the strong allergy medicine that I take when I’m going into anaphylactic shock I’m allergic to every single tree nut including coconuts that are half fruit half tree nut I’m also allergic to the oils on reptiles skin and blackberries
@@cacamoto5395 that's got to be tricky to work around! Hope where you live has good food labeling laws!
Gold Dragonette thanks and I really only stick to the same foods to be safe. Whenever I have a allergic reaction I take Benadryl, it’s not that strong so I have to take more than the average person .
Lmao, I have a hard time comprehending this
Hopefully immunotherapy might work?
When your immune system gets bored, bad things happen.
#7 sounds like a nightmare...
True..
Lol imagine having 7.....
*has 7*
*cries*
All of these sound like nightmares.
I cant imagine that.... and i also dont think you can get pregnant then because your progesterone has to rise during pregnancy to essentially stay pregnant. So that could be fine for someone who doesnt want lods, or it could be devastating for someone like me who only wanted to be a mom. (Luckily, im not and i have a baby, but my heart goes out to anyone who has that in general, but double for those who have it and want kids....
Just got diagnosed with this and it took me forever to figure it out .. I have 2 kids luckily but many miscarriages to get here .. and it's miserable 😪
SciShow team: you guys are awesome. I noticed the way you mention "people, male/female" when referring to those who suffer from these allergies. Very respectful.
I had a friend who was allergic to the cold. The swelling looked so bizarre and painful! Because we live somewhere cold, she received a disability flag for her car so she could get accessible parking at stores, making her walks to the door quicker and less likely to have a swollen airway.
CiderDivider how cold of an area? I’ve thought of this but where I live is only really cold occasionally but often suddenly.
The allergy to the cold is no joke. I have it and it is awful. Being in Colorado doesn't help either because of how cold it gets. The swelling isn't and it can make it really hard to move. When I swell, it can take up to 4-6 hours to go down. And I have had to miss days of school because of the after affects.
Yup yup i live in saskatchewan and have cold urticaria, except everyone in my town thinks im faking or overreacting
Actual cold allergy is one I'm glad I don't have... Edmonton can get pretty cold in the winter.
I have this. Cold urticaria really really bad, fexofenadine is a wonder drug also Facebook has support groups which is cool
You know what's fun too? Having allergic reactions when you aren't allergic to anything... mast cell activation disorder.... so much fun...
thats me. it really is a blast
So you are allergic to nothing, but still get sick? That sucks
Riesenfriese yup, have to be on a low/no histamine diet and be careful about certain perfumes and products. Any time I ingest histamine my mast cells also release all of their histamine so... same symptoms of allergies without any antigens
I think it's called an autoimmune disease when there's no trigger for it.
Michael Ball the immune system isn’t attacking the body though. There is a trigger, it’s just not antigen-antibody reaction. For some reason in MCAS the mast cells are primed to release histamine. High levels of histamine in the body equals allergic rxn symptoms
Finally I can show someone else that yes, that it is a really thing to be allergic to the cold. When you stand outside waiting for the bus in northern Michigan for an hour in winter and you suddenly get covered In hives, now I have a name.
Supposedly, this happened to me when I was really young, but then it never happened again, but around last year, I broke out in hives because I (presumably) stayed outside in the sun for too long.
I think my cold urticaria turned into hot urticaria; either that or it's now both. Both were one-time episodes and they've never happened again.
It is definitely a thing. It doesn’t seem to be on most doctor’s radars though. The first time it happened to me I said the only unusual thing I did was go swimming (in cold water). The second time, I took a cold shower. When it happened again after playing with my dog in the snow I ended up figuring it out for myself. You should research anaphylaxis. It has more symptoms than the video said and, in my experience, cold urticaria causes the weird ones.
Jade Neal the upside is that it's temporary in many cases, I life in Sweden and we have whipping winds that can scar skin and once I had to dress like a desert nomad just to go outside. Then one day I noticed that I no longer felt anything in the cold and instantly tore off my clothes and threw myself into the snow.
You builded up the tolerance required to not have a reaction anymore :)
sting2071232 Bro, try waiting for the bus in Canada... well if you're in Vancouver it wouldn't be too cold, I mean you might get mauled by a cougar or a moose or something... Basically everywhere else is freezing.
I have both cold and vibration allergies. This is the first mainstream video I've ever seen about them and I feel so validated.
I know this comment is 4 years old, but I (think) I also have those two, but mostly when those factors are combined. I mostly get it on my thighs when I walk in cold air, sometimes on my arms when I'm riding a bike and once I got it from cutting cold potatos from the fridge.
The weird thing is, I don't get hives like every medical website says, I just get red, itchy skin on the affected bodypart and it lasts for about 10 minutes.
How about you? Did you learn anything in those 4 years about your allergies?
The touch one was much more interesting when I thought for some reason that they could think of something and the allergy would write it on their arm. I havent slept in 3 days.
😂
No, hon. It's not like "The Exorcist." We had to actually scratch the words by hand. They took about 15 minutes to appear, and another 45 or so to go away. You can go to bed and sleep soundly now.
@@injunsun 😂😂😂
I’m allergic to the cold. Cold water in particular. I can drink it fine but I can’t swim in it or have it on my skin for too long. I get really bad hives and sometimes I can’t breathe.
That Ozian I've got a friend who has the exact same reaction. We work at a restaurant and he had to bring in a doctor's note saying he can't go in the walk-in freezer, and they keep an epipen in the office for him just in case
Same here !! Cold urticaria
Jessey Ellis omg 😱 I can finally relate to someone
My niece gets hives on her cheeks on contact with the cold winter air if my sister doesn't put Vaseline (a brand of petroleum jelly) on her little cheeks before they go out.
@@SuperMissblueeyes my friend has the same condition
YAAAY! I have exercise induced anaphylaxis and I am so happy that they mentioned this. Many doctors still don’t know about it and when it first developed when I was younger, it took years to diagnose. I hope more education about it will mean that more people are able to be diagnosed quickly!
Me too! Non- food dependent though... and the treatment, strangely enough in my case is exercise (with antihistamines beforehand and an epipen on standby of course)! I found mine is linked to sustained high heart-rate, particularly running or HIIT /crossfit... solution - get fitter... but of a catch 22 and very slow process 😮💨
I have auto immune issues so I'm basically allergic to myself 😂
Azazel 606 the way I like to describe my AI issues is “my body is trying to digest itself.” Not entirely accurate medically, but it gets a visual across that’s important for empathy I think.
That's just literally what autoimmune disease means.
I went to an allergist. He asked me if I can wear surgical steel earrings. I can not. I found out I'm allergic to nickel. It's a Type 4 allergy, meaning your body creates T cells to attack proteins the nickel binds to. Nickel is in stainless steel cookware. Cooking tomato sauce in a stainless steel pan is apparently really bad. All vegetation has nickel. There's more in everything you think is healthy like almonds, walnuts, beans, lentils, garbanzo beans, green leafy vegetables 😔. What's lowest is meat and dairy. I thought people going on an all meat diet were weirdos.
Me, too. I get a rash from my own tears. Or heaven forbid I drool a little in my sleep.
Yes, this is what I was about to say, I take immunosuppressive treatments to help.
I was talking to one of my drs this week about noticing that I’ve noticed that when I’m on immunosuppressive meds, I realized that I don’t get seasonal allergies (which is helpful to know since there are links between an increase in autoimmune diseases and allergies in areas that lack of certain parasites. There are some pretty interesting studies on it, though not many last time I checked (cpl yrs ago)
Impressive how you were able to explain #6 and 7 without giggling. Very professional. 👍
the power of multiple takes
When I was a child, I used to get an allergic reaction from sunlight.
I can't remember exactly when I grew out of it but it hasn't happened in a looooong while. Fingers crossed I didn't just jinx it.
Same here. I would develop a rash on my chest.
One of my kids had that. He thankfully outgrew it.
It's been one year did it happen again?
@@darknesskingsized8996 It has not happened again, thanks for asking.
Did you used to touch plants? There's a few plants that can cause extreme photo dermatitis, as in, sunburn from just a few minutes of a cloudy day.
I have dermographism. It's honestly weird. I love how people get weirded out when I scratch my skin for example.
+ my skin itches ;-;
Same 😢
my mother has dermoghraphism, we write names on her skin LMAO
I take an antihistamine twice a day because I have idiopathic chronic urticaria. If I don't take it my dermographism is very noticeable (i.e. raised hives), though I feel miserable. With the meds though, the skin just turns red where I scratched. Still works as a party trick though.
My younger brother is allergic to heat, if he overheats he breaks out in hives. Thankfully either cooling off in a tub of cold water or Benadryl will get the reaction to go down.
How do you know if it's an allergic reaction or prickly heat?
My allergic reaction always involves hives... I'm allergic to bees.
NOT THE BEES!!!!!!!!!
Master Therion he is 24 lmao
I know somebody with this as a real allergy. They had a bee hive fall on them as a child and now even one bee sting will send them into full anaphylaxis.
Master Therion off topic. I see you everywhere, dude. :)
Booo
I had a coworker who was allergic to exercise. She was in her 20s and they were really struggling to figure out why she kept having seriousanaphylaxis. It got really serious to the point of hospitalization. Finally, they realized it was exercise. She can lift light weights, take walks, but no hard cardio
I don't have any allergy after reading the comments section I have never been more grateful 😅
I don't either but did have an "intolerance" to mango
You are indeed lucky. I developed a new allergy or maybe two this year 😳
I'm technically allergic to myself - graft vs. host, where the graft is someone else's immune system (one of many side effects of a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia). Like with other kinds of transplants, a severe enough allergic reaction is lethal, so...could be worse.
AlthenaLuna, have you ever had the transplant without the radiation?
I have no idea what you're actually trying to ask here. There's one kind of bone marrow transplant (well, technically two, if you actually had your own stem cells harvested before you got sick, but irrelevant here), and the total body irradiation before it is necessary.
I've never had any transplant, but I have a recurring autoimmune condition called ITP. Every few years, for some reason my immune system attacks my own red blood cells or platelets.
I'm one of the unlucky people who have an allergy to the cold 😔 i get hives when it rains... It sounds so ridiculous but it's real life
Jessica Huynh it’s not ridiculous. I’m sorry you go through that! * passes you a blanket and a mug of hot cocoa *
Maybe the Lord is leading you to Africa?
@@Noivasjesse nope ☹️ any cold water will do it. Even holding a drink with ice cubes can trigger it
I'm also allergic to the cold but I'm lucky to no longer have it that bad. It was like that for me as a kid, woohoo Canadian winter, but it's really mellowed out in adulthood for me. I feel your pain. For whatever reason, I don't react to cold air... but cold anything else touches my skin, and boom, hives are happening.
Mom mom has this allergy and I'm starting to thing I'm busy getting it... for me it is not so bad yet but I'm worried that it might get worse as it has only recently started
I might have Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis. It's unlikely, but I better not play with fire here.
My son is wheat dependent exercise induced anaphylactic. It is no joke. It took us two years to get it diagnosed. He was in the ER every week.
Whoosh
Look into POTS and MCAS.
You know with that allergy you can’t masterbait or have sex think about it
I know you were joking, but I actually have exercise induced asthma.
As someone who has aquagentic urticaria, it really sucks. I get itchy hives that last for about an hour whenever I get wet. While washing my hands gets a minor amount of irritation and redness, something like a shower or getting caught in the rain can cause my whole body to break out. Like, when I take a shower, my chest, torso, let's arms and face look like I got a sunburn. It's quite painful, and I'm currently trying to get treatment for my condition. Even my sweat and tears make me get all red and itchy.
Have you considered washing with oils? It's a whole thing. You use non-comedogenic oils and wipe them off with a cloth to remove dirt et cetera. Even just sunflower seed oil can work.
As someone with exercise-induced asthma, I'm happy to know it could be worse 😂
My mom and I have that too
Omg, vibrations have always made me super itchy and my skin red, I had no idea that was a thing!
Me too . Really bad
School bus memories... talk about a pain in the tukus!
@@injunsun I forgot about the school bus!! 😰
I recently (~6 months ago) developed cold uticaria. I will forget and hold a cold drink or something on my bare skin, and within a few minutes a very obvious reaction. People don't believe me until I show them. It's crazy. I love that you made a video that informs about this. Thank you!
I have the arguably silly hobby to ask around
if someone wants more science youtuber to check out aka recommendations that are science
related.
I have food dependent exercise induced anaphylaxis. It's hard to find information on it and even allergists don't know all that much. It's nice to see a video including it!
Pamela Hrncir me too! It's so bizarre. When the immunologist was telling me that's what I had I found it very hard to take her seriously.
Same! It’s such a pain. It’s really cool seeing that other people have it too.
Damn mast cells. I'm actually about to be tested for mast cell activation syndrome soon.
Michi Melody I really, really hope you don’t have it.
How did it go?
Good luck! You can still have mast cell activation syndrome without raised tryptase.
Almost everyone has MCAS, but most cases are mild.
Turns out I have that "common" form of dimographism. I've always wondered why it happens to me. Now I know
Man... and I thought my severe perfume allergy was bad...
(I have to use unscented EVERYTHING. Any perfume in a product? Hives.)
Damn
I choose unscented because flowery/fruit scents attract bees. Bees are bad
@@lorefreak94 Maybe they're just into your luminescent skin? That's actually a thing that needs more research.
@@injunsun possible. Even tanned I am still quite pale.
Me too... my whole family.... my kids probably have the curse aswell
Middle and high school were rough
I was expecting my allergy to be in there. I'm allergic to the Sun.
I get the same problem. I wear sunglasses that really helps me
If I don't slather my self in prescription strength sunscreen I end up with blisters and welts all over from just five to ten minutes in the Sun
I've heard of this, that must suck,but thankfully you can cover up and stuff
I've been getting that under stress lately.
I never tan. Only burn.
I have a deadly allergy to natamycin (Mold inhibitor and anti-fungal). Only learned about it when shredded cheese from the grocery store broke me out in full body hives after less than a spoonful (It was on top of my broccoli). Never been happier to be a distracted eater who eats slow because I'm usually doing or watching something as well.
People with Vibration Allergies.
*Claps hands*
Mast Cell: “Ooh I’m gonna be sick!”
Ia anyone gonna reply?
They have motion sickness
I have vibration allergy. The allergy doesn’t set in after one clap for me. I gotta be clapping very rhythmically to get itchy red hands. But the worst symptoms don’t appear when clapping, the bad stuff is walking.
Imagine walking for around ten minutes and suddenly your whole body becomes unbearably itchy. (Like I scratch myself bloody sometimes.) Especially the legs. So you gotta walk-stop-walk-stop but unpredictability so people look at you weird.
When I run, my legs itch and get red. I’ve got other urticaria issues, including Dermographism, which is kept at bay through daily antihistamines (much more than a regular person).
Can't hit it from the back, cant be a stripper, cant pat yourself on the back
My friend has allergic reactions to a lot of things, including a crap ton of different kinds of foods, and even sunlight. She breaks into hives if she's out in the sunlight without any protection like any kind of covering, and has to cover herself up in the scorching sun even when the temperature is very high (we live in a very hot country)
I'm brown, so the sun should be my friend, but it's not. But sun-blocks help, at least for a few minutes, usually I have to avoid.
My dermographia only did that once, when I was under a sun lamp with UVB as part of its spectrum. The entire side facing the light welted up like The Exorcist, then, when I turned around, the other side did it. I already knew I had dermographia, but not like that. Strangely tho, it never happened in ordinary sunlight, nor in tanning beds with only UVA rays. I was a lifeguard 33/34 years ago. For info's sake, I'm olive complected, just 1% Black, and 1% Native American, with a couple of genes from India (a tanning allele) and North Africa (a 7x melanin booster), that somehow made it into my otherwise EuroAmerican family.
Side note: bigots frequently demand to know my ethnicity, or just call me ugly names based on thinking I'm Middle Eastern or Mexican. I hate bigots. As if dermographia wasn't enough to deal with. And if it's like that for me, I know it's worse for people with darker skin. But look at us all here, different tones, all the same underlying issue. The world could learn from us...
My mom was allergic to sun. She always wore long sleeves and pants and a large hat.
And I thought my mums allergies were weird! She's allergic to chicken (so we eat turkey all year round) she's also allergic to cheese, chocolate, cucumber and celery. Seriously, she's allergic to the letter C! TBH it's more intollerances that she has since it has a digestive response within the hour. But her sensitivity is crazy! If my next door neighbour cooks me a chicken based dinner, and I don't wash my hands enough, touch the door handle back home..... Then my mum touches it..... Yep she reacts!!! To say the least our cats have started following me next door to get chicken flavoured cat food for a change! 😂
Best bit is, she has alot of other allergies too, and I have none. Ive inherited a tonne of other medical problems from her family tree..... So I'm sat here waiting for them to come.
Little0Miss0Rebecca I'm allergic to chicken too. It's really hard to deal with. I go into anaphylactic shock if I eat any chicken products. If I touch raw chicken I get what looks like a skin eating rash. People think chicken is so great & put it in EVERYTHING. Everybody believes it's a fake allergy. 😢 Give your mom my sympathies.
Even severe gastrointestinal reactions can be allergies. It can even be classed as anaphylaxis (contrary to common belief, anaphylaxis doesn't automatically kill you, but has the potential to esp. if it involves the cardio vascular system). I'm allergic to nearly all animal proteins, many types of plant foods and might even be allergic to iron. The iron thing they're still trying to figure out.
I’m allergic to cucumbers and cilantro and peppers make me violently ill!
Hey, I've got dermatographia urticaria (skin writing condition)! How cool to see it featured in a video :D i feel so included, ha ha
wow, i didnt know that vibrations cause allergies. i have it then. everytime i use like a leaf blower which vibrates really strong my hands get swollen. i always thought its because the vibration causes my cells to build up water or more blood than normal gets into my hand. learned a new thing, thank you!
I was diagnosed with Dermatographia after bouts of random hives every day. Even simple things like T-shirts, water from the shower and seatbelts on my skin will cause a reaction. It isn’t too hard to cope with but my hives can be itchy and quite annoying. I even break out when my partners facial hair touches me because it’s a pokey. It’s nice to hear it explained to such a wide audience because people don’t really understand when you say you are allergic to touch.
This cracks me up, because I’ve got MCAS and I’m basically allergic to myself, and life in general. Been having a non-stop reaction since my last surgery: so 5 months. ER loves me
I have cold urticaria and my hives can be triggered by getting out of a hot shower and walking into a cold room, walking into an air conditioned building during the summer, or any time my body temperature rises like during running or even laughing and then being in a cool room. It definitely sucks but it can usually be treated with some Zyrtec and warm clothes
Tucker Hardin I can never use the bathroom fan when I shower.
A friend of mine developed an allergy to the cold while living in Israel. She took a drink of ice water and fainted. It came on suddenly and fortunately not during college at the very cold Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. The allergy got slowly less sensitive and eventually went away entirely after a few years. Now she can be in the cold with no ill effects again.
Real question, how do you survive with a water allergy??
I'm curious about that too. According to Wiki, only the skin is sensitive to water so water resistant oils/creams helps a lot while drinking.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had a tube that goes directly to the stomach to pump water into it.
@seaners24: I hope not. :/
If I remember correctly one of he few afflicted survive by drinking solely Diet Coke. Showers are likely rapid and painful.
But skin is water resistant....
I’ve got cold urticaria. I first had a reaction when I was about 8 years old, I walked into the cold ocean up to my knees and walked out covered in hives. I live in Washington state so it can get pretty cold outside, and it’s worse when it’s windy or raining. I’m 20 now, and I’ve gotten used to it, but it does suck having my hands start to swell and itch while holding cold drinks or having red, itchy hives all over my face after being outside for a little while.
It is funny to see how people react when I tell them I’m allergic to the cold, though. Most people don’t believe me at first 😂
I get joint pains
I've got cold urticaria too. I don't remember when it started, I have it for multiple years now. On the internet you read that it can go away after a few years. Well, nope. In my case it get's a bit worse every year. Not too bad, though. The hand swelling, oh I know it good. Touching the cold steering wheel of my car in winter without gloves... Not a good idea. I learned how to knit in order to knit myself a lot of nice and warm wooly scarves, socks and gloves x'D I enjoy autumn and winter, but only when I am rightfully dressed. When it is really cold in winter (and it is where I live), then I use a marigold weather balsam (usually intended for baby skin) for my face. Yes, most people are a bit perplex when I tell them of my allergy ^^
wow thank you for this!! i thought i was just a freak, allergic to so many things i cant even pinpoint everything that makes me break out in hives!
Relevant considering the current shortage of epipens...
Hey! Small request. When you namedrop other channels to check out, would you mind adding those links in the video description? Makes them easier to find later, without having to skip to the right moment in the video.
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I don't know the triage one but the other show mentioned is Crash Course which can be found on TH-cam.
I actually have two of these allergies... my body hates me.. or just wants to protect me lol. Its not serious like many people but it is a pain.
So I have an allergy to the cold... Even though I'm Canadian in the eastern coast. I break out in hives and my hands can swell up just by putting my hands quickly under cold running water. During winter, i need to watch out since my fingers can swell so badly and painfully. And my face... oh my face... And the hives are everywhere, to the point that they grow so big, they join together with other hives lol.
The second one is vibration. When I was young, I always wondered when I was clapping my hands, why it would itch and become red and inflamed. I found out way later one its a mild case of vibration allergy... Go figure... And that also goes for showers, the pressure of the water hitting me, hottubs and their jets, etc etc.
Woah that must of been hard for you :(
Same here. I had people treat me like I was lying, crazy, an abuse victim, or doing self-harm. I literally had to do demonstrations to prove I was none of the above. People suck.
You in NS? By chance? I’m from halifax.
Woah that sounds so bad how do you live
I was kinda happy seeing mine talked about! I'm allergic to cold, but for me it's pretty mild all things considered. I only really get it on my hands and feet, as well as a couple joints (mainly elbows and knees), and so far i haven't had any issues other than welts and swelling in the area. I always feel weird when it happens, because it feels like I'm being over dramatic somehow? I don't know if that's a common thing for people with odd allergies or similar things. Either way, it's not great, especially since I can't handle heat.
I know one of the people with water allergy. She can only drink through a straw or her face will swell and she had to rush to shelter once when it began to rain gently. She had a couple of hives and seemed itchy a little bit later. She also said how much she loves dry shampoo for reducing pain. My niece looks like she’s moderately allergic to cortisol. Extremely rare and bizzare
It must be so hard living with an allergy to water 😔
It's hard enough being allergic to cat hair!
Image being allergic to AIR! Whoa 😿
Went to school with a guy who was. Got hives when water got on his skin. Whenever it rained, he didn't come to class.
I am allergic to something they add into water, it's not bad and I can drink it fine and wash my hands but after having showers and baths I just can't stop itching
Does that mean one would be 80% allergic to themselves?
There's heat urticaria as well. And it sucks to live in Florida with it.
Had that happen to me once. It ain't pleasant.
No hot showers in winter, no walking outside in the summer sun too long, no driving where the sun is beaming on your arm too long, I agree. I've got it , official name cholinergic urticaria. Mine is related to my asthma, and the trio of odd allergies, asthma and eczema probably nets you a diagnosis of atopy. Immune system overreaction, probably genetic.
Swap u.... Scotland is a real Baltic shithole, u will love it...
Soo interesting! I had a really bad allergic reaction once and for a whole 2 years afterward the allergy came back at the moment I was doing sports and got out of breath. I was too scared to talk to anyone about though and with time it went away but it is really nice to hear there is a link!
This is proof that I had an allergy to my period when I was younger. Every month when I would exercise or eat chicken or turkey at the beginning of my cycle, I would have these types of reactions. It was awful. I remember once I had an orchestra concert right around Thanksgiving and I was on my period. I ate a little bit of turkey, and proceeded to get ready to go do my solo performance. When I got to school, I started having very itchy skin, mostly on my hands and feet. I then got very nauseated and threw up violently and I started having trouble breathing. They called an ambulance and I was taken to the ER. They always called it an unknown allergic reaction. I know now that I had a serious allergy to my period, poultry, and some exercise. I wish a doctor would have studied me back then. I had a hysterectomy 14 years ago, and since then, I’ve never dealt with this again.
Hi someone with chronic dermatographic urticaria (number one) here and it’s as bad at it sounds. I have it so severe that sometime just a gust of wind or even nothing at all can cause my skin to burst out into hives so painful and intense I have to jump into cold water. Luckily! I’m on an extremely high dosage of Zyrtec and since being on it I’ve been able to get control over my flare ups! I also keep my skin very moisturized and that helps a ton to cut down on flare ups!
I used to have Dermographism really bad (diagnosed by my Neurogastroenterologist, confirmed by my primary neurologist and others), the thing was it never was consistent. Sometimes it barely happened, I could still draw on my skin but it wasn't bad. Then in some cases it was bad enough to become about as itchy as hives, very hot to burning hot, my throat would also get really really really itchy and kind of swollen (though that might have been EoE or other things). Then after the last bad cycle, it just gradually went away to the point that I don't notice it anymore. My skin still turns really red from contact very quickly, not sure what that's about lol.
I know a guy who became allergic to bees weeks after leaving his old job to become a full-time beekeeper...
(fortunately he could get de-sensitized!)
FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE, MICHAEL! BLINK!
Wow! Your right! He doesn't blink! How weird!
It's just the editing 😂
ITS UNNATURAL AND I CANT UNSEE
lmao! And he sure talks with his hands a lot
He’s secretly a lizard
Idk if you've done it before on this channel and I missed it, but I would love a breakdown of Raynaud's syndrome. It's a weird genetic thing that makes your hands, feet, nose, ears and other organs lose blood flow due to cold. I have it and live in Michigan so it sucks. Basically, when it's cold blood vessels shrink a ton ( I know there's a word for this but I can't remember) but they shrink too much and blood flow is lost almost immediately. The only ways I've gotten around it is wearing gloves that are already warm, using hand warmers, or running my hands under lukewarm to hot water.
It's also quite painful. For example, if I reach into the freezer for 20 seconds my hands become so cold and bringing warmth back is painful
I’m allergic to water and it’s the most annoying thing to happen in the rain and the hives is REAAAAALLY itchy. Drinking water is perfectly fine though lol
My mother has a couple of weird allergies. First, she is allergic to pepper, more specifically to capsaicin, which gives pepper its heat. This makes eating out almost impossible. We hsve to tell the server, "No black pepper, red pepper, bell peppers, paprika, etc. "
Her other weird allergy is that she is allergic to metal. She first developed this when she got her ears pierced as a child. Since then she can't have any kind of metal jewelry against her skin. She can stll handle coins and silverware, but if it is touching her more than an hour or two, she will break out in a rash.
black pepper has zero capsaicin, so I call BS on that, but metal allergy is quite common, a lot of people are allergic to nickel. try using 18 or 20 carat gold or titanium for jewelry, they are usually very unlikely to cause a reaction
TheBackyardChemist
My mother's GI track would disagree. Even a little black pepper sets her mouth on fire, and that fire keeps going the along the whole trip, ending in diarrhea. Any pepper in the air makes it hard for her to breathe, so no cooking spicy food when she visits. If she uses a capsaicin pain cream, she breaks out. If there isn't capsaicin in black pepper, than there is something close enough to trigger her allergy.
The heat of black pepper comes from piperine. Does she also react to ginger? Myabe the probllem lies in the receptors and not the substance.
My mom has a mild allergy to gold, a supposedly nonreactive metal. Fortunately, she's cheap, so never feels the need to have any.
My mom is alergic to a bunch of earings except Gold
Great video, one you missed is cholinergic urticaria which is an allergy to your sweat. A bead of sweat follows sweat droplet down your back. I have diagnosed this twice in my career.
Nut allergy
i see what you did there
**ba dum tss**
it was unavoidable :D
that really....sucks
What a gut buster.
I have the 2nd one. Tried to tell doctors several times that even though it can get worse in cold weather, it will not happen unless there is vibration such as from walking/running on hard surface. Still have seen at least two write down only "cold urticaria" 🙄😕
#3 Cold Urticaria is something I have and I was diagnosed with at thirteen (I'm currently 31). Fortunately, I've never gone into anaphylaxis, but if I'm exposed to the cold or drink something too cold I break out into hives and experience the angioedema (primarily in my hands and feet where circulation is poor compared to the rest of my body). My Doctor prescribed me Zyrtec when I was first diagnosed and has suggested I carry a jacket with me. Fortunately I live in Florida where it's rarely cold, but there are occasions where the AC is too low or in the winter months we sometimes get cold days/weeks/months and I break out. I've also started to notice that if my blood pressure is too high or lower than normal I'm more prone to a more severe reaction when exposed to the cold.
Funny >_> today i had my first allergic reaction.. and then shortly after that i found this video lol
I'm allergic to wear things made of lace or tulle cloth, especially gowns though
Great post, keep up the good work!
I'm allergic to pennicilin...
*that's fun*
me too
Allergies to certain antibiotics seems to be a thing that's been happening for a while.
Keflex allergy here.
Really? What do you get if you get really sick?
4 out of 7 of us in my family are allergic to penicillin and a handful of other related antibiotics. Was told it wasn’t genetic but environmental. All of us that are allergic to it grew up in the same house in the mojave, and the 3 that aren’t were raised elsewhere. There are plenty of alternatives for when we need antibiotics besides penicillin. Plus you get to skip the peanut butter shot, so there’s one upside.
People often feel so sorry for my family and I when they learn about our allergies, which I've always found strange because it's just what I'm used to. 🤷🏻♀️
As someone who has cold urticaria and has lived in NY for almost their whole life, I was hoping to see it on this list and was so happy when it was! Literally no one knows about it, but it's so inconvenient. It's a cool fun fact/party trick tho and it's funny to see people's reactions when I tell them lol
i knew the thing i have would be on here (dermographism) its hell actually you're always itchy and it makes it look liek you have rashes everywhere. i have to down allergy pills everyday
Nerdgasmic yep,it sucks from what I can imagine
And I thought I had it bad. Every time something presses against my skin, including another part of my body, the area gets red, swollen and tingly for about 10-15 minutes. Whenever I stop leaning against something, especially during the summer, people rush over and ask me if I'm having an allergic reaction to something.
Yeah I have it too, but I've become so accustomed and used to the pain and itching that I've been able to get through it some. However sports and other activities like holding something will make my hands swell and itch. I used to think I just had regular hives as a kid because stress and heat would affect it, but here I am accidentally scratching my skin off. 😎
I used to have this very badly too and it stressed me out because I was only 16ish. After several years, it became more benign and benign and eventually it went away. I don't know why. But it means you can hope that your condition will go away too.
Yeppp same here, I’ll me absentmindedly scratching my neck or something and even with meds it’s a big red splotchy mess
7:04 after knowing your trigger foods, you can eat those food and skip exercise.
5:02 that’s my people. So when I start the hives, I stop the exercise. I get light headed and nauseous and have passed out too many times. Walking briskly or hiking makes me break out in hives. I dislike this very much.
I know someone who's literally allergic to sunlight; or rather, the UV in sunlight. Has an absolute maximum of 30mins to be outside before severe swelling occurs.
Omg. You solved a 30-year mystery for me! Thank you so much!
As a nonbinary person who menstruates, I REALLY appreciate the gender neutral way you covered the last allergy. Thank you!
So is the reason my legs break out in hiving when I jog 😂😂😂
Thank you for this great video!
When I was little I had a friend who was allergic to snow. We lived in Massachusetts. It wasn’t the snow per se that she was allergic too but instead like a mold that grew on top of it. So she could play in the stop as it was falling but a short time after the snow stopped falling she had to go inside and avoid it until it melted. Her mom was a super clean freak and like other super clean freak mothers, they all ended up with all their children having horrible allergies. Be happy it you had a normal mom and not one scared of dust and dirt.
What if you have all seven of these allergies?
DatCoolMolecule you’re very very unlucky! 😬
Science with Katie dying *is* unlucky
Science with Katie as in unlucky to an infinitesimal fraction, meaning that it will probably never be repeated as the extinction of our species is more likely in that period of time. So at least no one else will experience this, well if we are all dead who can?
Some legend said you can summon shen long
Your life must really suck
My dad has a reaction whenever he's in direct sunlight. It's super weird, he gets these small red welts all over.
“Postorgasmic Illness Syndrome:” the saddest thing I’ve ever heard...😢
I find his voice so calming :)
Most people in my family have sensitive skin, but it expresses itself in different ways for all of us and we often have reactions to different things. For example, I have dermatographia, my brother has psoriasis and my sister is allergic to the sun, among other things. We can have reactions to abrasive materials, washing detergent, certain soaps, make-up, grass, pressure, markers, paint, plasters... One time my sister had a reaction to sunshine and then a reaction to the aftersun she applied to her skin. My reactions are pretty mild, hers are more severe. It certainly keeps life interesting!
Allergies are not a problem for the dead join us
zombie blood believe me I’ve considered joining the dead many times.
I'll get back to you in about 60-ish years.
Surprised that “allergy to the sun” wasn’t on here 😕
Yeah me too my mom has it and it seems strange enough to me
My immune system is such a drama queen, it's always over reacting to everything. It just makes me want to set myself on fire!
Are you allergic to fire
I’m allergic to the cold too. Luckily it’s not a very strong reaction so I usually just feel itchy for 5-10 minutes. I always thought everyone was like that until I met someone else who had it and they were so excited to see me having hives and I was like, what’s the big deal? When I went to physical therapy once after an injury, the therapist didn’t believe me at first, but when the ice pack gave me hives (like I said it would) he called all the other therapists over to look. 😂
I actually knew a girl who had an allergy to exercise, but she was a gymnast. She competed in the paralympics and after every competition basically had to go to the hospital because of anaphylaxis, but she lived for the sport. I'm not sure what she's up to these days, but I hope she's well!
Thank you Very much for using gender neutral terms with the progesterone allergy. Some males get periods too :)
And both sexes have all sex hormones, just in differing amounts.
:( Allergic to being overheated. Have to take triple dose antihistamines just to have a warm shower or it's full body hives for an hour or two.
Wouldn't it be more practical then to simply start having cold showers? o.o
@@fricki1997 I think she means warm is the highest the temp she can use, no steaming hot showers as some like to take.
Personally I do have bad time with heat but different symptoms. No full body hives, its only base of neck I get hiveswhen over heated.Oddly when I would shave my hair line at the base it helped. Also would get migraines. The worse part of being overheated, it can trigger asthma-like symptoms. The shortness of breath bad enough to need an inhaler or even emergency treatment. The doctor never said its an allergy to heat, he told me its called bronchio-spasms and being overheated triggers it.
ive had cold urtica and water allergy, but the water only affects the outer skin and not my throat
Barnesrino Kripperino I have the cold allergy
i have the same type of water allergy!
I had dermographism for a while. It started happening out of the blue and eventually went away on its own. It was really annoying. I was constantly itchy, and scratching that itch only made it itchier. There dermatologist told me it was nothing to worry about and suggested taking showers that were warm instead of hot, which did help a bit!
My brother is allergic to the cold! We found out when he injured his arm and icing it made it significantly worse. He ended up in the hospital due to his reaction to the ice. Luckily, it's not so severe that an accidental cold shower could kill him, but freezing wind and ice are definitely a concern.
What about the photic sneeze reflex where the sun causes fits of sneezing? That's a pain for sure
MrMusicfan678 I have that. It's not so bad. I usually only sneeze once or twice when I go from a dark room into sunlight. I don't know how severe it can be, but I don't really have a problem with it.
Sebastian Ekart driving in the fall and late in the year gets tough. Sneezing 5-6 times while driving with no way to get rid of the sun can be dangerous/annoying
I get that sometimes. I used to do it for fun as a kid.
I have it, all that happens is I sneeze around 5 times after leaving my room. not that bad
after sleeping only, too.