Food Allergies T_T

A cup of fresh cherries. Thankfully all he developed after consumption was itching lips, mouth and pharynx, not some more severe symptoms such as vomiting or ingestion. Phew.

Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS), it turned out to be, is a type of food allergy that typically featured by oral allergic reactions. My grandmother used to tell me that her "throat would close" if she consumes honey. Me, slightly differently, would have immediate gastric irritation when eating large scoops of honey.

Despite my rich personal allergy experience, I was still surprised by the richer pool of allergens in our daily life. 

However valuable the nutrition value of some food is, it is always advisable to test out specific allergic items, especially when you have history of major allergies. The test I went through was extremely user-unfriendly --> 30 injections, 15 on each upper arm, with common allergens. Hours later the enlargement (beyond certain diameter) of the injection site would be deemed as a positive result. Painful and ugly.

Stay safe! If you are not allergic to peanut, dairy products (technically not allergy but intolerance), pollen foods....try to explore something else! Oh, and enjoy the Olympics!


Thanks S.Wells for quote below - my favorite quote from sci-fi so far! Let's enjoy the insignificance of mankind ;) "Ignorance is bliss"

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
                                                                               - H.P.Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

One must-mention artist: "The King of Forests"- Shishkin. Have you ever felt mesmerized by some art piece, however common it seemed to other people? When I was 15, I used to stare at Shishkin's paintings and let my mind run to the forests with him, wild and free, with a touch of coldness of Russian air. Unfortunately, I cannot find my favorite piece right now.

Artist: Ivan I. Shishkin（Иван Иванович Шишкин) (1832-1898)