Bonus: Gluten-free play-dough!
wait is gluten alergy on the skin too? I thought the person had to eat it
This is why you donโt get nuts when traveling on an airplane carrying a passenger with a nut allergy. Allergic responses vary wildly. You might have a mild allergy that gives you a rash if you eat too much of something. Or, you might go into anaphylactic shock if you breath air thatโs had nuts in it.
My wife has an autoimmune disease thatโs triggered by foods. Some foods more than others, and thereโs some tolerance to each. She shouldnโt eat capsicum, but she loves spicy food, and she can eat some, but it she eats it too often, she gets a response flare. OTOH, she canโt have any amount of dairy: the response is rapid, and severe, and she has to take steroids to get it under control. Luckily, sheโs not sensitive to anything (that weโve found, anyway) that triggers a response from the molecules in the air.
Oh, there are two things you may have forgotten: first, when you smell something, youโre literally tasting molecules of that thing; second, your skin is your bodyโs largest organ, and you can absolutely ingest stuff through your skin. Thatโs how Novichok, and other nerve agents, work.
Yeah that was 100% a stupid question, but one of those things I never thought about before
Oh, hey @MissJinx; I havenโt seen you in a while.
I donโt think it was a stupid question; frankly, itโs not something I find intuitive. I have to stop and think about it. Also, living with someone with allergies makes you more aware of them, since your brain tends to purge knowledge you donโt use. Iโd think itโs a curse - especially since my memory is shit to begin with - except that I know a couple of people with eidetic memories, and that can present its own problems.
I know one guy with an eiditic memory who has a problem with information that he learns wrong the first time. He has to build a sort of linked-list model in his brain for corrections, and then do a sort of very slow O(n) crawl of the list to end up with the right result. So say heโs introduced to you and they say your name is Becky; that gets stored in his memory. Then you correct them and say your name is โSusanneโ, so he makes a โcorrectionโ link. But because someone coughed when you said it, he heard โSusanโ, and that was w what got stored; so he has to make a second correction. From then on, whenever he runs into you he has to go through this โBeckyโ -> โSusanโ -> โSusanneโ process, and he says itโs real slow and can take a couple of seconds, and longer if there are more corrections. That seems a poor trade-off to me for being able to glance at a page and then repeat it back verbatim by reading the picture in his memory.
Gluten intolerant person here. Itโs like any other allergies where it runs the gambit. Most of us only have digestive issues if we eat it. Very rarely however, people will have the thing where they will just fucking explode into hives if someone breaks out a piece of bread in the same room as them. Just like peanut kid in elementary school.