[Sca-cooks] ALLERGIES, was Onion-scullery

[Phlip]

Kirsten skrev:

> or they worked in medical..... i know a ton of EMTs and nurses who
developed
> the latex allergies......
> basically the more exposure you get the worse it is......
>
> of course, i also HEARD of a clown who got it.... exposed to too many
> balloons making "balloon animals " for kids.......no i am not kidding.
>
> but yeah.. the usual latex allergies are people whose health is pretty
iffy
> anyway...... oh.. side note...
> from what i heard there are some interesting overlaps to latex
allergies...
> and some plants... any info on this?

Yes. I treated a pt at Point this year, whose allergy was because of
extensive medical difficulties, and basicly what I did was go through our
supplies until we found things that we knew she didn't have a sensitivity
to. One of the sensitivities that crops up is to the adhesive on various
tapes, so to avoid that I bandaged her booboo with a gauze wrap, rather than
using a tape or bandaid. She said, too, that the allergy had transferred
into nuts from trees, although peanuts weren't a problem.

Allergies can be almighty odd, at times ;-) Thank Heavens I don't have any,
that I know of. Of course, I'd just as soon not discover any unexpectedly,
too ;-)

Phlip