A friend of mine has a kind of odd allergy. Well she calls it an allergy but it’s more of a chemical reaction I guess. She is allergic to chlorine. If chlorine touches her skin she breaks out into what looks like hives except they may remain for weeks instead of hours. She has to wear rubber gloves if she wants to use chlorine for anything and even being in a swimming pool for extended periods can cause this horrible reaction. Sometimes if she is bleaching towels, she will even have a minor reaction. I can’t even believe how hard it is on her. So many cleaning products have bleach in them and she is something of a clean freak.
As in she’s the type of person who use to notice when I would go in and move her stapler a few nudges to the side on her desk. Before she realized what was causing the reaction she’d use bleach in everything. Since she’s figured it out her overall health has been much better. Although her happiness has decreased (after all nothing is really clean without bleach, right?) Do you have any allergies, or in this case chemical reactions that are less common? How do you cope with it?
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Wed, Sep 2, 2009
Allergens