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Subject: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:09 PM Just spent two boring weeks in Canada and came away with the knowledge that every other person I met believes they have a allergy - and yet fewer than TWO per cent actually do. One reason why so many people think they're allergic when they're probably not, is because they assume they're allergic without even visiting the doctor. For example, they may have a headache which they blame on something they've eaten. No where in Canada could be adequately equipped to diagnose and treat all the allergies the people I met listed. Welcome to trees, bears and the neurotic club!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: skipy Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:18 PM Troll alert! Skipy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST,Gus Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:25 PM Yeah they have a point. Still like Canadians though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: Jack the Sailor Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:31 PM "came away with the knowledge that every other person I met believes they have a allergy - and yet fewer than TWO per cent actually do." They couldn't know that without the diagnostics. Lying git! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:34 PM Agreed Jack, they must be lying if only two per cent are diagnosised. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: number 6 Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:00 PM AAAAAccchhhhoooooo!!! Whew AAAAAAAAAACCCCCCHHHoooooooo!!! Whoa Boy sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: Severn Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:03 PM A Pollen State Of affairs, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: bobad Date: 07 Aug 06 - 09:42 PM I realize this thread is most likely the work of a troll trying to get a rise out of Canadians but it presents an opportunity to shed some light on the subject of allergies The term allergy, when used to describe a negative reaction to some stimulus, is often misused. An allergic reaction is a very specific sequence of events that commences with the production of an allergen specific antibody, IgE, and culminates with the cellular release of a substance called histamine which is responsible for the characteristic allergic symptoms of itchy eyes, runny and/or blocked nose, sneezing, sinus headache etc. In extreme cases, most often associated with specific food allergies, severe symptoms such as swelling of the throat and airways can result in anaphylaxis and death. Many people use the term allergy to describe reactions which are really sensitivities and irritations to stimuli such as tobacco smoke or perfumes and many other chemical compounds. While these may produce some of the same symptoms as true allergic responces they are NOT allergies. A true allergy can usually be diagnosed by procedures such as skin tests, where a small amount of the suspect allergen is injected subcutaneously and then observed over a period of time for a responce which is characterized by a red whelt, the diameter of which is somewhat indicative of the degree of allergicness. A more empirical test which is in use today is called the RAST and is a lab test which quantifies the amount of allergen specific IgE. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST,Rapaire Date: 07 Aug 06 - 09:56 PM I don't think that Canadians are any more prone to allergies than residents of the US or the UK. I myself have several allergies, the bites of large carnivores among them. My research shows conclusively that Canadians are also allergic to such bites. I hope that Canadians will correct me if I'm wrong about that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:15 PM It's probably not allergies but people innocently suffering from chronic bad air drifting up from the states. Actually, Canadians are obsessed with incorrect spelling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST,posting for Guest Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:25 PM Guest has an abcessed tooth, causing him to slightly 'off' pronounce. It is not a typo error. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:28 PM Canadians snowshoe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: Rapparee Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:00 PM So do Alaskans. And Idahoans. And Montanans. And even, God help us, Hoosiers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: Sorcha Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:02 PM Our chronic bad air would do it.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:39 PM Snowballs? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: Jack the Sailor Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:55 PM yellow showballs |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: gnu Date: 08 Aug 06 - 04:31 AM I have a beer allergy. After a dozen or so, I get kinda tipsy. I can understand that 50% thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: Becca72 Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:32 AM I'm |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: number 6 Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:34 AM Whhhheeeeewchooooooooooooooo ! Whoa ... excuse me It's those Goddamned Maple Trees. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obcessed with allergies From: Divis Sweeney Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:49 AM I have a sister lives in Canada, think her allergy is me ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:50 AM I am a Canadian. I am not obsessed with allergies. I have none that I am aware of. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: Divis Sweeney Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:57 AM Going well Little hawk ? I find when it comes to the threads on Ireland politics, some get an allergy to the truth ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: Metchosin Date: 08 Aug 06 - 01:32 PM When it comes to myself, I am not obsessed with allergies either, as I also do not suffer from any of which I'm aware, however, most members of my immediate family do and can be quite obsessive when beset. For me on those occasions, it is hard not to be a little obsessive too, especially when loved ones air passages are swelling shut and they're gasping for breath. While only one of my daughters had skin tests when small to determine specific triggers, it isn't hard to infer an allergic reaction when you note when out, that other family members about you are suddenly having breathing difficultes and the whites of their eyes have begun to turn to jelly and started oozing over the rims. This despite the cat owners apologetic insistance that they just don't understand, they have recently vacuumed and the cats never lay about on the furniture. Some otherwise pleasant visits have had to be cut short at times. When a family member suddenly develops a rash that looks like a radiation burn after being prescribed a floxacin antibiotic and their legs swell up to the size of tree trunks and and their skin splits and oozes small rivulets of fluid it might be prudent to assume an allergic reaction. And when another family member, after over seventy years of occasional beestings to no ill effect, suddenly has to be rushed to the hospital because swelling from a sting has started to cause their throat to close.......... I could go on and on and on.....obsessive about allergies? Who? Me? LOL . I am Canadian. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:17 PM I've had dogs that were allergic to certain things. Does that count? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: number 6 Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:37 PM Our 2 hounds have allergies ... doesn't count since they are Americans. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: Metchosin Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:37 PM So do I Little Hawk, and the frigging things are from the UK, does that count? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: Peace Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:08 PM Hey Guest--the one who started this thread: "Just spent two boring weeks in Canada" You a hard rock miner? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: hesperis Date: 09 Aug 06 - 02:16 PM How can you spend two boring weeks in Canada? Where were you, Blind River? (j/k) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 09 Aug 06 - 02:39 PM HEY! Flip right off, eh? I tell ya why this fliphead was bored, eh? He got bored with his own flippin' company tha'ts why. If enny one else had been there with him they woulda been pretty flippin' bored too! These kinda loosers oughta flippin' stay in the US of flippin' A where they flippin' BELONG! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canadians obsessed with allergies From: flattop Date: 09 Aug 06 - 11:41 PM 24 Moosehead stop allergies as quickly as a puck bouncing off your right temple. |
