Question:
When they did my daughter's allergy tests a few weeks ago, they did 2
additional patches, one with sterile saline and one with histamine. The dr.
said they do that to establish a baseline of a negative reaction (saline) and
a positive reaction (histamine). He said everyone would have a reaction to
histamine, although some more than others. I take her back to him next week for a follow up. Any questions
raised/discussed here I will try to remember to talk to him about. He seems
to be a really caring person who understood our frustration with Kaitlyn's
continuous sinus/ear infections and tonsilitis, even while antibiotics.
Answer:
I too have had this problem since I was a child, while at Lackland AFB,
TX [read: San Antonio] I went to Wilford Hall Medical Center, (Big Willy)
and had them check this out for me. After being exposed to all of the
allergens, I responded to histamine. Normally, they would have called my
condition vasomotor rhinitus, but since I wasn't allergic to any of their
pet allergens, they called it psuedo vaso-motor rhinitus. I have since
read that people exposed to chronic pain eventually used up their sources
of adrenilen , so the body substitutes histamine, which I am allergic
to and that is what causes the runny nose, sinus and ear problems I have
experienced lifelong. Can anyone else provide a better explanation? I
would love to see it. A word of warning, after many sinus infections followed by sulfa, I began
to get skin rashes, sensitive mouth lining, and such. Turned out I became
allergic to sulfa drugs, the VA were unable to decide why I had a purple
rings around my neck and waist, even after getting biopsies. The sore
tongue and mouth were strange symptoms. The skin rashes should have been
a clue to them. Now after so many sinus and ear infections, I hear these
high pitches, and when all is quiet, except for the dog barking 2 blocks
away and doors slamming 5 doors down the street, the ringing really
becomes disconcerting, in addition to the supra-hearing. If I didn't have
insomnia, the hearing aspects of fms would keep me awake. Where did the
elavil go? Ear plugs are in order, but then the ringing would get louder.
