Can I ask a question? What's all this "chicken" talk?

[shaerich]

I almost feel intrusive asking b/c there's clearly a history here... but I've seen it in several posts just in the last couple days.  Is there something funny about chickens?

[DLA]

Post #3.  Final post.

[DLA]

For all the seasonal allergies like weeds, trees, pollen, and grass local bee pollen is AMAZING!!  It has to be collected within 500 miles of where you live so that it contains all of the same pollens.  But if you are allergic to bees beeeeeee careful!  

Dac

[rayneweather]

You sound like one of my coworkers.  Her pulmonologist has declared her the most allergic person he has ever met.  She just had a bad allergic reaction to her allergy shot 2 days ago - the pollen & tree count is SO high right now that it was just too much for her immune system to take.  And I hear you about the cats - we have 1 and everyone in our family is allergic to her (except my son but the cat doesn't let him get close enough to her to find out); my parents have wanted us to get rid of her for years but she's special needs and needs just the right home and we haven't found it yet.  So as long as I don't pet her much, my husband doesn't bathe her and my daughter doesn't let the cat lick her then we're fine :-)  I carry chewable or melt-tab benadryl around with me - I found they work much quicker than the standard benadryl tablets and my daughter is able to use them, too (she can't swallow regular pills yet).  I also have the dust/mold/tree/pollen allergies and they're acting up right now.  But everyone in my family is suffering right now and with the counts so high right now it's no wonder.  My daughter was just started on nasonex a few weeks ago which I now have to wait almost a week to fill because she decided to play it and managed to spray most of it out of the bottle :-P *rolls eyes*.  Have a great weekend and a fun Memorial Day.

Rayne

[artsyrose]

I can relate to the allergy issue...I am allergic to beestings, shellfish, penicillin and sulfa drugs...along with lots of inhaled stuff...grasses, pollens, dust, mold, animal dander...rofl...I have 5 cats...oh well..also take lots of benadryl and use nasacort daily....tested slightly allergic to lots of foods, but I would have to give up eating altogether if I eliminated all of them! potatoes, chicken, pork, rice, wheat, sheesh..there would be nothing left...so I just muddle through....used to do allergy shots...gave up on that **** after over 20 years...

[rayneweather]

Well, it's up for debate whether or not I'm actually allergic to oil.  I am allergic to soybeans and I know if I eat anything with soybean paste or soybean protein in it I react.  However, I have eaten stuff with soybean oil and soy lecethin in it without any reaction (that I'm aware of).  According to Alton Brown on "Good Eats" people with peanut allergies can fry in peanut oil because the proteins that cause the allergic reaction aren't found in the oil.  So the same is probably true for soybean oil but I try to limit my exposure to it in any case.  Right now I'm using rice bran oil instead of soybean oil (occasionally olive oil but I don't like the taste).  It only comes from one company and is a little more expensive but it has no taste, a very high smoke point (so great for frying), no allergens and A LOT of antioxidants.  So I don't mind shelling the money out.  I'm also allergic to corn and almost everything has corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup in it so I try to limit that as much as possible; not just because of allergies but because I don't like the idea of it in my food & drinks anyway.  Then you have the allergies to apples, mustard and who knows what else.  I carry epi-pens for both my daughter and I but I've never had to use them.  My daughter had A LOT of food allergies when she was a toddler but she's outgrown all of them for which I'm grateful.  At 1 year of age she was living on yogurt, pudding & french fries.  :-P  My sister in law & her mother anaphylax from pineapples and you'd be surprised what kind of stuff has pineapple juice in it as sweetners.  As a result she and I have become BIG label readers and we're always asking wait staff and food vendors what all their ingredients are.  I'm a bit neurotic about it considering I've never anaphylaxed but when my panic attacks are centered around allergic reactions it's better just to prevent all allergic reactions if I can.  :-)

[rayneweather]

Sirens and little white coats :-)  I haven't seen a Bojangles in years.  I didn't realize KFC had a new formula - probably cooked in a different kind of oil to which I am allergic :-(  Same as McDonald's fries.  Oh well.  Nyxie, thanks for the heads up on not cooking a chicken on a spit.  I could see my husband trying that :-).  I love Fried Green Tomatoes, that's a great movie.