I see you cited environmental allergies, which means airborne pollen or fungal spores etc. Personally, while I generally avoid medications, and hate the drowsiness from Benadryl (and the dementia), Allegra works great for me. Lasts about a day, is very effective, and there are no noticeable side effects.
I also have food allergies. For that, I read labels, and ask questions at restaurants. I’m allergic to tree nuts (pecans, almonds, cashews, basically everything called a nut that isn’t a peanut) but not peanuts. Thankfully most dishes which have tree nuts tend to call them out in the title or description. Allergens from a list of 8 (9?) are required to be bolded or listed as an allergen in the US for packaged foods. I pay attention to “may contain” or “produced on equipment/in a facility that…” warnings, but note that in the US, those are optional.
I recently got much more allergic to soy; which sucks because soy is in like every processed food for some reason. Bread, dark chocolate, and cereal really don’t need soy. That’s even before the “may contain…” labels because an ingredient shared an assembly line at some point. It sucks lol
Before I found out I had Celiac, I thought I might be allergic to soy. It definitely is in a ton of foods all over the place. I knew someone allergic to corn, a similar situation. Gluten (wheat, barley, rye) is tough to avoid too… besides being nearly ubiquitous in packaged foods and at restaurants, cross contamination is rampant, especially when it comes to flour.
I see you cited environmental allergies, which means airborne pollen or fungal spores etc. Personally, while I generally avoid medications, and hate the drowsiness from Benadryl (and the dementia), Allegra works great for me. Lasts about a day, is very effective, and there are no noticeable side effects.
I also have food allergies. For that, I read labels, and ask questions at restaurants. I’m allergic to tree nuts (pecans, almonds, cashews, basically everything called a nut that isn’t a peanut) but not peanuts. Thankfully most dishes which have tree nuts tend to call them out in the title or description. Allergens from a list of 8 (9?) are required to be bolded or listed as an allergen in the US for packaged foods. I pay attention to “may contain” or “produced on equipment/in a facility that…” warnings, but note that in the US, those are optional.
Here in europe all the cheap stuff has “may contain…” (Nuts &cetera) , like flour, wtf.
I recently got much more allergic to soy; which sucks because soy is in like every processed food for some reason. Bread, dark chocolate, and cereal really don’t need soy. That’s even before the “may contain…” labels because an ingredient shared an assembly line at some point. It sucks lol
Before I found out I had Celiac, I thought I might be allergic to soy. It definitely is in a ton of foods all over the place. I knew someone allergic to corn, a similar situation. Gluten (wheat, barley, rye) is tough to avoid too… besides being nearly ubiquitous in packaged foods and at restaurants, cross contamination is rampant, especially when it comes to flour.