Results
This is mostly for my records but some of you will find it amusing:
These are the numbers for my allergy test I took on 6/15/09. Some numbers appear lower than they actually are because the way the test works is that there are two types of needles. There are really small one (think TB innoulantions) that they do first with a higher concentration of allergen but a smaller needle that doesn’t go as deep under the tissue. If you get any sorta of reaction of note, or if it is a dangerous allergen (peanuts for instance) they will not move you on to Phase 2 for safety.
Phase Two consists of hyperdermic needles with a weaker dose.
So here we go. They grade you (by touch and appearance and based on the experience of the nurse involved, so take some of this with a grain of salt….) and write down a score from 0-4. Zero is no reaction. Three and Four are considered Severe. Espically Fours….here are my numbers, separated by Inhalants and Food:
I’m listing the food first since they are more interesting to read about than various types of mold, though the Inhalents are by far the bigger problem.
Foods:
Beef: 4 (sweet mother of mercy!)
Chicken: 0 (this number is better than 6 years ago as are a lot of things believe it or not)
Egg: 0
Pork: 4 (my BBQ!!!)
Apple: 1
Avocado: 0
Banana: 0
Cantaloupe: 2
Coconut: 1
Orange: 3
Peach: 0
Pear: 0
Pineapple: 4 (MEAT FAUCET - OH NOZS!)
Strawberry: 0
Watermelon: 0
White Grape: 1
Almond: 3
Brazil: 0
Cashew: 0
Hazelnut: 3
Pistacho: 3
Pecan: 0
Walnut: 0
Barley: 3 (Wait, I don’t like where this is going…)
Corn: 1
Cottonseed: 2
Malt: 3 (heeeeeeyyyyyy….)
Oats: 3
Rice: 0
Rye: 2
Wheat: 2
Yeast: 0
Clam: 2
Crab: 0
Fish Mix (Codfish, Flounder, Halibut, Mackeral, Tuna): 2
Flounder: 0
Tuna: 0
Lobster: 2
Oyster: 3
Salmon: 2
Scallops: 3
Shrimp: 0 (There is a God!)
Cocoa Beans: 0 (ditto!)
Coffee: 0
Hops: 0 (Great, the ONE Beer ingredient that I dislike…)
Milk: 2
Tea: 0
Black Pepper: 2
Cinnamon: 1
Garlic: 0
Green Olive: 0 (Martini time!)
Mushrooms: 1
Mustard: 0
Onion: 0
Sesame Seed: 3
Green Bean: 2
Green Peas: 2
Lima Bean: 2
Navy Bean: 2
Peanut: 2
Soybean: 3 (Take that Lactaid!)
Broccili: 0
Cabbage: 2
Carrot: 0
Cauliflower: 2
Celery: 0
Lettuce: 0
Spinach: 1
Sweet Potato: 2
Tomato: 0
White Potato: 2
Inhalents:
House Dust: 2
Standardized mite Mix: 2
Cockroach: 0
Cat epithelia: 4 (was a zero on the first test…I thought I was going to the SPCA that day!)
Dog epithelia: 2 (didn’t do second test on that one…)
Grass: 4
Weed Mix: 2
Marsh Elder: 0
Mugwort: 3
Plantain-Sorrel Mix: 3
Ragweed: 3
Molds - (last time I was hardly allergic to mold - this is a bad year for them because of the cold winter.)
Fungi Mix: 2
Acremonium strictum: 2
Alterbarua alternata: 0
Aspergillus mix: 2
Aureobasidium pullulans: 3
Bipolaris sorokiniana: 1
Botrytis cinerea: 0
Candida albicans: 2
Chaetomium globosum: 2
Cladosporium sphaerospermum: 0
Epicoccum nigrum: 1
Fusarium moniliform: 2
Mucor plumbeus: 2
Penicillium Mix: 2
Phoma betae: 2
Rhizopus oryzae: 0
Trichophyton mentagrophytes: 1
Drechslera spicifera: 0
Geotrichum candidum: 3
Grain Smut Mix: 2
Grass Smut Mix: 2
Trees -
Tree Mix: 2
Elm: 2
Maple: 2
Eastern Oak: 3
Sycamore: 2
Tree Mix II: 2
White Ash: 2
Beech: 2
Birch: 4
Cottonwood: 2
White Hickory: 0
Walnut Pollen, Black: 1
Black Willow: 1
Alder: 2
Box Elder: 3
Cedar, red: 0
Mulberry, red: 2
Pine Mix: 1
Privet: 2
Sweet Gum: 2
So, very soon I am going to try a ten day elimination diet on the threes and fours. For food that means no:
Beef
Pork
Oranges
Pineapple
Almonds
Hazelnut
Pistacho
Barley
Malt
Oats
Oyster
Scallops
Sesame Seed
Soybean
Then I’m suppose to bing on this stuff. I’m going to try and work this around Summer War. (Ya’ll are coming right?) so that should be interesting….
Weight in at 247 today. Time to get back to work on that.
These are the numbers for my allergy test I took on 6/15/09. Some numbers appear lower than they actually are because the way the test works is that there are two types of needles. There are really small one (think TB innoulantions) that they do first with a higher concentration of allergen but a smaller needle that doesn’t go as deep under the tissue. If you get any sorta of reaction of note, or if it is a dangerous allergen (peanuts for instance) they will not move you on to Phase 2 for safety.
Phase Two consists of hyperdermic needles with a weaker dose.
So here we go. They grade you (by touch and appearance and based on the experience of the nurse involved, so take some of this with a grain of salt….) and write down a score from 0-4. Zero is no reaction. Three and Four are considered Severe. Espically Fours….here are my numbers, separated by Inhalants and Food:
I’m listing the food first since they are more interesting to read about than various types of mold, though the Inhalents are by far the bigger problem.
Foods:
Beef: 4 (sweet mother of mercy!)
Chicken: 0 (this number is better than 6 years ago as are a lot of things believe it or not)
Egg: 0
Pork: 4 (my BBQ!!!)
Apple: 1
Avocado: 0
Banana: 0
Cantaloupe: 2
Coconut: 1
Orange: 3
Peach: 0
Pear: 0
Pineapple: 4 (MEAT FAUCET - OH NOZS!)
Strawberry: 0
Watermelon: 0
White Grape: 1
Almond: 3
Brazil: 0
Cashew: 0
Hazelnut: 3
Pistacho: 3
Pecan: 0
Walnut: 0
Barley: 3 (Wait, I don’t like where this is going…)
Corn: 1
Cottonseed: 2
Malt: 3 (heeeeeeyyyyyy….)
Oats: 3
Rice: 0
Rye: 2
Wheat: 2
Yeast: 0
Clam: 2
Crab: 0
Fish Mix (Codfish, Flounder, Halibut, Mackeral, Tuna): 2
Flounder: 0
Tuna: 0
Lobster: 2
Oyster: 3
Salmon: 2
Scallops: 3
Shrimp: 0 (There is a God!)
Cocoa Beans: 0 (ditto!)
Coffee: 0
Hops: 0 (Great, the ONE Beer ingredient that I dislike…)
Milk: 2
Tea: 0
Black Pepper: 2
Cinnamon: 1
Garlic: 0
Green Olive: 0 (Martini time!)
Mushrooms: 1
Mustard: 0
Onion: 0
Sesame Seed: 3
Green Bean: 2
Green Peas: 2
Lima Bean: 2
Navy Bean: 2
Peanut: 2
Soybean: 3 (Take that Lactaid!)
Broccili: 0
Cabbage: 2
Carrot: 0
Cauliflower: 2
Celery: 0
Lettuce: 0
Spinach: 1
Sweet Potato: 2
Tomato: 0
White Potato: 2
Inhalents:
House Dust: 2
Standardized mite Mix: 2
Cockroach: 0
Cat epithelia: 4 (was a zero on the first test…I thought I was going to the SPCA that day!)
Dog epithelia: 2 (didn’t do second test on that one…)
Grass: 4
Weed Mix: 2
Marsh Elder: 0
Mugwort: 3
Plantain-Sorrel Mix: 3
Ragweed: 3
Molds - (last time I was hardly allergic to mold - this is a bad year for them because of the cold winter.)
Fungi Mix: 2
Acremonium strictum: 2
Alterbarua alternata: 0
Aspergillus mix: 2
Aureobasidium pullulans: 3
Bipolaris sorokiniana: 1
Botrytis cinerea: 0
Candida albicans: 2
Chaetomium globosum: 2
Cladosporium sphaerospermum: 0
Epicoccum nigrum: 1
Fusarium moniliform: 2
Mucor plumbeus: 2
Penicillium Mix: 2
Phoma betae: 2
Rhizopus oryzae: 0
Trichophyton mentagrophytes: 1
Drechslera spicifera: 0
Geotrichum candidum: 3
Grain Smut Mix: 2
Grass Smut Mix: 2
Trees -
Tree Mix: 2
Elm: 2
Maple: 2
Eastern Oak: 3
Sycamore: 2
Tree Mix II: 2
White Ash: 2
Beech: 2
Birch: 4
Cottonwood: 2
White Hickory: 0
Walnut Pollen, Black: 1
Black Willow: 1
Alder: 2
Box Elder: 3
Cedar, red: 0
Mulberry, red: 2
Pine Mix: 1
Privet: 2
Sweet Gum: 2
So, very soon I am going to try a ten day elimination diet on the threes and fours. For food that means no:
Beef
Pork
Oranges
Pineapple
Almonds
Hazelnut
Pistacho
Barley
Malt
Oats
Oyster
Scallops
Sesame Seed
Soybean
Then I’m suppose to bing on this stuff. I’m going to try and work this around Summer War. (Ya’ll are coming right?) so that should be interesting….
Weight in at 247 today. Time to get back to work on that.