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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1104" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://moabtimes.com/2019/05/10/food-allergies/" target="_blank"><strong>Food Allergies - The Times-Independent</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>I had them as a kid, and treated them as a pediatrician</strong></p><p></p><p>I am writing this out of the firm belief that “it takes one to know one.” I don’t know at exactly what age it started, and of course, my mother, now, can’t tell me. By school age, we both knew that a normal kid didn’t make the noises when talking like I did. Some described it as “he sounds like he has a clothespin on his nose.” What I am describing is nasal allergy due to sensitivity to cow’s milk.</p><p></p><p><strong>A childhood dairy dilemma</strong></p><p></p><p>In the 1930s and ‘40s there was much general knowledge about vitamins, but little about food allergies. Fortunately, my mother stumbled (or was it divine intervention?) across a remedy. She found I couldn’t tolerate a big glass of supposedly good-for-me cow’s milk. But tasty, readily available New York-aged cheddar cheese didn’t give me any trouble.</p><p></p><p>We have since learned what was happening: The milk sensitivity was causing such swelling of the inferior nasal turbinates – mounds of tissue projecting toward the dividing septum, designed to moisten incoming air and trap dust and other particulates, like pollens – that they nearly completely blocked my nasal airway. Accompanying the swelling was itching, relieved by executing the “allergic salute” – a swipe of the nose with a sleeve that covered the forearm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1104, member: 1"] [URL='https://moabtimes.com/2019/05/10/food-allergies/'][B]Food Allergies - The Times-Independent[/B][/URL] [B]I had them as a kid, and treated them as a pediatrician[/B] I am writing this out of the firm belief that “it takes one to know one.” I don’t know at exactly what age it started, and of course, my mother, now, can’t tell me. By school age, we both knew that a normal kid didn’t make the noises when talking like I did. Some described it as “he sounds like he has a clothespin on his nose.” What I am describing is nasal allergy due to sensitivity to cow’s milk. [B]A childhood dairy dilemma[/B] In the 1930s and ‘40s there was much general knowledge about vitamins, but little about food allergies. Fortunately, my mother stumbled (or was it divine intervention?) across a remedy. She found I couldn’t tolerate a big glass of supposedly good-for-me cow’s milk. But tasty, readily available New York-aged cheddar cheese didn’t give me any trouble. We have since learned what was happening: The milk sensitivity was causing such swelling of the inferior nasal turbinates – mounds of tissue projecting toward the dividing septum, designed to moisten incoming air and trap dust and other particulates, like pollens – that they nearly completely blocked my nasal airway. Accompanying the swelling was itching, relieved by executing the “allergic salute” – a swipe of the nose with a sleeve that covered the forearm. [/QUOTE]
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