I went to an allergist yesterday in hopes of finding the cause of my seasonal sinus infections. I get them twice a year usually and this year it was particularly bad. If there is anything I can do to prevent them, I'll give it a shot.
Grandpa Jim, I know you read this, and I think I found a long lost relative of ours. This doctor, Doctor Coleman, looked as much like a Burgel as anyone I've ever come across before. If he's not distantly related somehow, I'd be shocked.
Anyway, he proceeds to do the normal allergy test which consists of putting drops of different types of things on my back and then pricking the skin under each one to see what I react to.
So he starts to explain the results to me. It seems that I'm allergic to mostly things that occur around seasonal changes. Grass, fescue, ragweed, hickory trees, dust, and cockroaches.
Cockroaches?
Nevermind the nasty realization that I had "essence of cockroach" on my back, but it just seems like a really weird thing to be allergic to. Why would they even test for that? He tells me that it is actually pretty common.
Well I guess that does it for my hickory smoked cockroach recipe at the family picnics. I doubt it will be missed much though. I never could get the seasonings right.
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Cockroach 'droppings' are asthma triggers. Asthma and allergies can go hand in hand, and they can have the same triggers. Maybe that's why they test for it.
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