I hope it is ok to continue this thread so I'm answering onlist.
Let's see, 19 and a half years ago we went on vacation and I ate
shrimp and seafood daily: I had eaten and loved all seafood my entire
life, but overdid it (don't get good seafood in wyoming!). Came home and
began to itch, I had massive hives for some 3 weeks that heavy duty
antihistamines, injections of this and that could not stop. Did an
elimination diet, changed or eliminated soaps, detergents, etc. the
whole rigamarole they put you through. By process of elimination the
best guess was shrimp, etc, and that gives two choices 1) allergy to
shrimp/seafood proteins, or 2) allergy to iodine. Over the next 19 +
years, whenever I have gotten hives, it has been because there was an
unsuspected source of iodine in my diet or in other products
(toothpaste!, OTC NSAIDS, multivitamins.........you name it, iodine is
probably in it) I had also been having eczema (mild) here and there for
years, but didn't recognize it for what it was until Jan 2003 when I got
a horrible case of eczema with occasional hives, that has lasted to this
day, except for two short remissions.
The allergist says there is not a desensitisation protocol for iodine.
He is the one who said if I had successfully been avoiding it
completely, I'd have had a goiter years and years ago. I do know over
the last 19 years it has become increasingly difficult to avoid it. And
I have developed other allergies over the years. Which I read is not
unusual. When one is having an allergy reaction the body becomes
hyper-reactive and one can become allergic to foods and substances that
were not previously a problem, when the hyper-reactive state eventually
subsides, the new allergies sometimes also subside, but not always, in
my experience. Further, whenever I have had an actual skin outbreak due
to iodine, I've never been able to return to using or consuming iodine
containing things that previously I got away with. It seems like every
actual outbreak ramps up the sensitivity.
Still there must be a "root cause" that makes a person likely to
develop allergies. People become allergic to all kinds of things,
pollens, danders, chemicals, food proteins.........it makes absolutely
no sense to me that a human can develop an allergy to a mineral required
for life. But in my research I have found that iodine allergy is not as
uncommon as many believe, and that people have died of it. Since it is
so ubiquitous, and so hidden and difficult to track down various dietary
and other sources of iodine, my personal belief is that the 75% of
people who suffer from eczema and hives in whom the trigger is never
found may be, in fact, allergic to iodine.
paula
Peter Rebaudo wrote:
Paula:
How was determined that You are allergic to iodine?
What are the symptoms?
Peter R
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