Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about! This used to just be common knowledge. Everyone knew it. It wasn't mind blowing

Thanks. Her little girl just started university and decided to commemorate her mum with a tattoo done by our other good friend and we bawled our eyes out.

This is how I worry my good friend died. Her breast cancer came back and she immediately died after her first dose of chemo. It was horrifying.

I blew some people's minds a few weeks ago- Soap dissolves lipids, right? Bacterial membranes are made of that

Didn't we all adore the "nondrowsy" antihistamine Seldane that caused heart damage?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/09/25/fda-warns-about-taking-seldane-with-many-new-generation-of-drugs/91e038d9-453c-48ca-9949-afdd12532a12/

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/14/us/citing-its-side-effects-fda-weighs-ban-on-allergy-drug.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-08-fi-1636-story.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1992-07-19/fda-warnings-on-seldanes-side-effects

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8109548/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terfenadine

This administration is operating on vibes. Most of them have no idea what they’re doing. They’re lashing out at everyone and everything that has offended them in some way.

My ear drums and sinuses become inflamed now over soy, wheat, and nuts, and my digestive system is wrecked over oats. Good enough for me!

@blogdiva

Yes, yes, and yes!

I would add that we now have entire generations of people in the US who don't know that soap *without* triclosan is antimicrobial. You don't have to add shit to it

That's half the reason soap exists! (And the other half is that it washes grease off of stuff)

And starting in 2020, we've got a huge population of people with new allergies, often to these inactive ingredients, often that they don't know about until they get a bad reaction

Every time a doctor prescribes a medication for me, I have to spend hours trawling the database to find a version that doesn't have cornstarch in it

Often there isn't one, and I have to get my meds compounded. Which I have to pay for out of pocket, $100-300 a bottle, and special order

And a good chunk of the time it's not available to compounding pharmacists either

This is very frustrating for my doctors. They can't just write a prescription and have me fill it. I have to go through this whole 2-month process, and I still might end up with nothing

Not the injectable version

I'm so sorry for what you and your son have gone through. I know people with similar stories about their kiddos and vaccinations. This is the battle ground, people are more important than profits Every Damned Time.

Thank you for the whole thread, it's educational.

For allergies testing, my kids' allergist warned me that the technology isn't as good as we would hope. The standard scratch tests will give a lot of false positives. He himself tested positive for a dangerous level of peanut allergy, but eats peanuts without issues. So allergy tests were mostly used to confirm an allergy when they already have other evidence, e.g. "The patient was exposed to eggs and milk and had an allergic reaction, we will use the scratch test in the hope that only one or the other will test positive."

I'm just some random idiot parroting what I heard from a doctor a decade back, so I am probably getting the details wrong. That's my memory of the discussion.

As someone with mast cell activation syndrome (basically allergy cells react to things you aren’t allergic to) it is absurd the amount of dangerous shit corps put in everything. Trying to find skin/body care without benzene relatives is such a PITA. Even antihistamines, which logically should be highly attentive to potential anaphylactic triggers, are pick your poison on inactives.

I know I'm physically potentially intimidating, and as such, I try very hard not to be visibly angry or yell, but they would have heard me from the reception desk in my response to that one. After letting my wife take my son out of the room.