Theresa (Teresa) McPhail
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104 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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I think, based on my years of detective work, that I'm allergic to grass and probably ragweed and maybe dust mites.
Oh boy, how much time do we have?
This is part of the problem.
There's a lot of confusion about what an allergy is and isn't.
The easiest answer I can give you is that an allergy is when your body responds to something that is otherwise harmless and triggers an immune response.
If your immune cells are not involved in the response...
then it is not an allergy.
The classic example is milk allergy versus milk intolerance.
On the surface, if you have a mild milk allergy, it's going to look the same, perhaps an upset stomach, feeling kind of gross, some gassiness.
But the difference is with the intolerance, there's something else going on.
In this case, you're not able to digest lactose because you lack an enzyme.
But it's producing symptoms that would seem familiar to someone whose immune cells, whose T cells and B cells are producing antibodies and attacking that milk protein.
Except that the allergy can, you know, escalate.
You can get a skin rash, you can get wheezing, and you can end up in the ER with a full-on anaphylactic event.
That's not going to happen with intolerance.
But if you have mild forms of this,
you're going to be confused and you might just assume that you have an allergy.
And the only way to know for certain is to see an allergist.
The problem there is we don't really have enough of them.
They're specialists and you need a referral to see one.
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