Odd Allergies

I get mild hives if I handle styrofoam for too long. I didn't think anything of it at first, until it happened again and again.

I have Achoo Syndrome, or another term for it is called Sun Sneezing, you can webMD it if you like. Light enters my eyes and triggers a signal in my brain that say your going to sneeze now. It usually happens when I go out into sunlight, but any light can trigger it. My minimum for sneezes are around 3, but my maximum can go around 12 or at a time. This happens everyday.

I'm one who breaks out in hives if the surface temperature of my skin drops. Normally it's just from exposure to cold, either very cold air or cold water, but a couple years ago I went through a phase where absolutely any time I exerted any energy at all--even just climbing a flight of stairs or walking briskly for more than a couple dozen yards--I was covered in massive welts, even when the weather was warm. It pretty much sucks, because it could be 75 degrees, and I am chilled to the bone and shaking with cold until the Zyrtec kicks in. I hate it. It makes exercise really, really sucky.

I once read that the water alergy involved a hyper sensitivity to positivly charged ions, and if a person with this afliction wants to take a shower, it's recomended that they only do so once a week and for no longer then a minute.

In addition to being allergic to pollen, dust and my cats, I will get nasal swelling when the barometric pressure changes.

JamesO... I experience that as well. Not as much as you though. Light has to hit my eyes a certain way to trigger the sneezing.
An aunt on my mother's side has the same problem.

I break out into hives wherever pink medical tape touches my skin. No other colour, just pink.

I'm also allergic to something in my friends back yard during summer.
Nowhere else does it happen, and at no other time of the year.

I have Celiac's, which is more an intolerance than an allergy, and causes foods with gluten and casein (gluten is a chemical in wheat and other grains and casein is in most of the proteins of milk) to eat a hole in my gut.

Sun sneezing is also known as photic sneeze reflex. My dad and I both have it. A friend of mine who has it tends to look at a ceiling light if he feels a stubborn sneeze coming on. It's totally weird, but at least it's predictable.

Shanelle I have the same problem with exercise hives. My husband thought I was crazy until I had him talk to my doctor.

Both my son and my dad are allergic to Benadryl. Really fun to find that out.

My tongue and my mouth feels real strange after I eat Honeydew melons. It feels like my tongue swells up and my lips get swollen but after a few minutes later it subsides.

One of my aunts and all of her kids have the sun sneezing thing. My father and at least one of my cousins has cold urticaria, an allergy to the cold.

Too much sun and I break out in a rash. Therefore, long sleeves all the time.

I'm allergic to the sun - I break out in blisters and/or itchy red marks that stay for several days after. I wear 90spf (and YES, I have found that there is a difference in higher SPFs, at least for people as hypersensitive as I am), and joke that I am personally trying to bring ladies' gloves and parasols back into mainstream fashion.

I am mildy allergic to my own mucus. As you can imagine, the body's reaction to being alergic to something is to produce mucus. So, I'm almost always partially congested. yay!

I also can bring on a stubborn sneeze by looking at the sun briefly. I thought that was pretty common?

And I also get hives if my skin gets too cold. It was hell in high school dressing out for PE for first period in the winter! I also would get them anywhere there was pressure on my skin like elastic bands on socks and panties and of course where you have pressure standing (my feet!) or sitting (my butt!). They went away for many, many years (18 years or so?) but have recently come back, but so far it's only happening with cold skin. What a pain in the ass allergies are. I think mine are related to an increase in soy, by the way.