@elric @FabulousLVNV Are we looking to see if older people are more or less likely than younger people to be diagnosed with peanut allergies?

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(20)32412-X/fulltext#tables

Is this of any help?

@AskTheDevil @elric It is! It’s something I’ve noticed the last 25 years or so and I wondered if it was simply underreported or if there’s some other reason. Thank you for the link!!

@FabulousLVNV @AskTheDevil I had never even heard of a peanut allergy until I had kids in school. I remember a single classmate with a food allergy in elementary school and it was milk.

@elric @AskTheDevil Same, but the one I recall was a girl had a bee allergy. Asthma was also exceptionally rare when I went to school. I recall just one there, too, all throughout my 12 years of school.

@FabulousLVNV @elric I had one that eventually faded. But when I was younger, a single sting would leave me deathly ill for days.

@AskTheDevil @FabulousLVNV Bee allergies I had heard of and don't want to sound like I'm diminishing their severity. I remember a number of kids having EpiPens (?) stored in the office.

@elric @FabulousLVNV You can become allergic to almost any substance.

Have I lately mentioned the sentiment of "whoever invented the human body is fired?"

: )

@AskTheDevil @elric I had my first-ever allergic reaction to something (fortunately very mild, substance still unknown) 2 years ago (!!!). Hasn’t happened since. It’s a mystery! 😬

@FabulousLVNV @elric I never had anything like hay-fever style allergies my whole life. Not even in places covered in mildew, swamp, smog, and pollen. Then I moved to Colorado, and all of a sudden I was "sick" every fall and spring. Apparently, I'm allergic to something seasonal here.

I don't care! It's worth it. I love Colorado.
🖤 🤧

@elric @AskTheDevil In the 60’s, a girl in my class got stung and she started crying because she was so scared. Not sure how they dealt with it back then.

@FabulousLVNV @elric My first sting came when I was fairly young. It hurt way more than a bee sting should, the whole area swelled into a knot, I got delirious quickly. High fever, in and out of sleep, sweats, it was pretty awful. The knot under the skin where I'd been stung could be felt for a couple of years, visible for months.
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@AskTheDevil @elric A couple of YEARS!!! How did they treat it if I may ask? I can’t even imagine.

@FabulousLVNV @elric Oh, just the lump. The other stuff resolved in 2-5 days. So sorry! I wasn't clear!

No, it was just like a terrible flu with high fever (103+), muscle aches and cramps, and pain at the site. No breathing trouble though, no hystamine-type stuff. Just this awful reaction, and then a lump that took months or years to fade at the sting-site.

@FabulousLVNV @elric Oh, and the treatment at the time was managing the fever with ice baths and "hoping I wouldn't die". I don't recall a lot of the first incident. I'm sure I got some dain bramage from it.
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After that time, I knew the main thing was to manage the fever, but I did that by cooling my head and putting cold packs against the arteries in my neck, not by icing my whole body - wet compress if needed. Then take painkillers and say various forms of @#$! until it wore off.

@AskTheDevil @FabulousLVNV That is a pretty drastic management plan! I like yours much better.

@elric @FabulousLVNV I probably shoulda gone to the hospital.

@FabulousLVNV @elric
That was pretty much every bee or wasp sting (including a bullet ant sting), until after not being stung for about... 20 years, I was stung by a yellowjacket, and nothing. About like a red ant sting.

Since then, they smart, but no added reaction.

It might be that I was stung a lot by various species of ant, during the course of creating ant farms.

(I spit-took my soda laughing in the cinema, watching Constantine, when he says "God's a kid with an ant farm").

@AskTheDevil @elric Oh man, my computer is in the shop and my boomer eyes will 😵‍💫 trying to read this on my phone. 😂 This looks like all of the answers to my curiosity. Thank you again!