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ALLERGIES TESTING ―from cradle to grave― SHOULD BE STANDARD PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PRACTICE.
this is why my sons still go to their “baby doctor”. he’s one of the best in Family Medicine and this is the clinic’s routine protocol.
it should be, after those 1994 changes to the FDA.
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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.
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatrician’s office who literally said, “well, even if he died, it’s for the greater good”.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. it’s for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /🧵
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.
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatrician’s office who literally said, “well, even if he died, it’s for the greater good”.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. it’s for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /🧵
@blogdiva omg. 🤬what an asshole.
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@blogdiva WTAF!?
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.
@lachlan seriously. my ex and i were livid.
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Ah yes. Like how Benadryl has a red dye that is a known allergen in it. And people who are most likely to need Benadryl are the people who are more likely to have an allergy or sensitivity to this particular dye, so they have to look for "hypoallergenic antihistamines". Blew my mind when I had to research this stuff for my own health.
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2. i’ve outlined my experience with both sides of the changes:
- 2a. ACTIVE ingredients, like triclosan ―which were always problematic
- 2b. INACTIVE ingredients in pharmaceuticals and cosmeceuticals that are the most often involved in what the industry called “personal injury” cases. in my case it involved cancer immunotherapy. in my son’s case, immunization.
all this to say: in spite of those 1994 changes, we should have more than one choice of #vaccines BECAUSE OF #ALLERGIES 🧵…
@blogdiva Thank you so much for this thread. I have to be careful with vaccines because of allergic reactions to inactive ingredients and trying to explain to people that this is a very real thing...Plus sometimes trying to get confirmation of what they all are. I'm glad your son has you looking out for him.
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AAAAAAAAAUGH! ❝ Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.” ❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measlesi am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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@blogdiva ya know what, something did happen to humanity, but it was before the 90’s (referring to the 1930’s -1960’s with nuclear detonation, ddt & the list continues
) & ya know what, there’s nothing much we can do about it now! But of course this idiot would never dream of blaming himself & his own generation or previous generation for this mess.
Besides, it’s far more complicated than that & with understanding autism, diagnosis has made it more visible, doesn’t mean it wasn’t there before! -
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this is not a fucking paper, so all the caveats apply to this thread; but wanted to add:
not all the 1994 changes were bad. i believe the statistical modeling involving old products was a good call. one of the CP CEO’s goals was to reduce animal testing. this was one of the factors that helped with that.
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@blogdiva I finally read through the entire thread 🩷
I’m so sorry you had to deal with all of that 🫂
I have anaphylaxis from a food allergy and I know what it’s like to go through it. I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy… yes I mean that!
It’s so frustrating that we have to deal with such assholes in companies and government, every generation seems to have to struggle with this stupid problem and system. I sometimes get the feeling that we need another Teddy Rosevelt … maybe that’s Mamdani. -
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this is not a fucking paper, so all the caveats apply to this thread; but wanted to add:
not all the 1994 changes were bad. i believe the statistical modeling involving old products was a good call. one of the CP CEO’s goals was to reduce animal testing. this was one of the factors that helped with that.
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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
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatrician’s office who literally said, “well, even if he died, it’s for the greater good”.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. it’s for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /🧵
@blogdiva Thank you for all of this, and Jesus Christ. You and your ex deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not causing bodily harm to that callous SOB.
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❝ Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.” ❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measlesi am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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@blogdiva So, Adolf is about to intentionally cause more pandemics just to line his pockets? -
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.
@firebreathingduck I can affirm. I'm sensitive to an increasing number of things, but don't show up with a true allergy. My allergist told me to go by my reaction, not a test, then told me about another patient who didn't show up positive on a scratch test or blood test for shellfish, but coded when given a food challenge.
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!
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❝ Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.” ❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measlesi am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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@blogdiva
“On the call, the White House official said vaccines moved into this category “still are a recommendation, and so we assume that that means they’ll still be covered by insurance””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.
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Ah yes. Like how Benadryl has a red dye that is a known allergen in it. And people who are most likely to need Benadryl are the people who are more likely to have an allergy or sensitivity to this particular dye, so they have to look for "hypoallergenic antihistamines". Blew my mind when I had to research this stuff for my own health.
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
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❝ Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.” ❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measlesi am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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@blogdiva Back in early 1980s I had a reaction to whooping cough vaccine as 6 months old, which at time thought it cause my stroke.
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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
I blew some people's minds a few weeks ago- Soap dissolves lipids, right? Bacterial membranes are made of that
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why do i give you this background context to discuss this #RFK #MMR #vaccines nonesense?
BECAUSE THE PROBLEM IS IN HOW INACTIVE INGREDIENTS ARE TREATEDmy son had an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs. you don't want to know how it feels to have the limp body of your baby after doing the “right thing” and being a responsible parent.
but the gaslighting about inactive ingredients in vaccines and immunotherapy is what also almost killed me during chemo… 🧵…
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.
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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.
@RobotDiver geezus… am so sorry for your loss.
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@RobotDiver geezus… am so sorry for your loss.
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.
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the US doesn't have "health care". we have the "health insurance industry" masquerading as health care.
@paul_ipv6 @blogdiva We can thank Richard "The Dick" Nixon for that
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