A History of Allergies

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Despite their omnipresence in human history, it took until the modern age for humans to understand what allergies are and begin to treat them. The History Guy remembers achoo!! the Forgotten History of Allergies.
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Despite their omnipresence in human history, it took until the modern age for humans to understand what allergies are and begin to treat them.
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@leepinlepin 3 года назад

When you reach 1millon subs you should do a history of your channel! Because your history is worth remembering!

@soisitimpossible 3 года назад

That's a good idea actually!

@metamorphiczeolite 3 года назад

Ooo, that is a great idea!

@dand5331 3 года назад

Awesome idea!

@lgg2304 3 года назад

Lol, too soon! But I am shocked and appalled he doesnt have 1M yet. I think I subscribbled like 6-8months ago and just assumed he had well over that. Meanwhile the Jerry Springers or a guest on his show have 17M. God I wish people would strive to be better instead they strive to be popular.

@phillipstoltzfus3014 3 года назад

Good idea!

@jdk9673 3 года назад

Confusing a hippopotamus for a wasp seems like a life-altering mistake even in the best of circumstances.

@fancyultrafresh3264 3 года назад

As I woke this morning to a headache, cotton eyes, scratchy sore throat, and a wheeze I peered at my RU-vid recommendations and saw this. Thank you.

@goodun2974 3 года назад

"Tis the season to be sneezin'!"

@thatrecord5313 3 года назад

"Fa la la la laaaah la la la la"

@joedearinger9239 3 года назад

Spring is here I am wheezin'

@crusader2112 3 года назад

@@joedearinger9239 🎶Fa la la la laaaah la la la🎶

@electricianmagician5105 3 года назад

Now, we Don our Emergency Inhaler!

@lydialady5275 3 года назад

Coffee is excellent for asthma. It's hot, you have to sip slowly and therefore relax a few minutes. But, long before it was shown by serious study, doctors gave coffee as a treatment, and it was effective. The school secretary always gave asthmatic children a cup of coffee after their inhaler, and my son was grateful, because it always worked. Thank you for this wonderful episode.

@jackieheidorn5875 3 года назад

Hot spice tea also works quite well.

@XBrh53a 3 года назад

And that's the reason why I can't stand coffee. An early recurring childhood memory is being told 'Drink your coffee!' when I was already was brim full of it.

@lydialady5275 3 года назад

@@XBrh53a Ouch. That's not a happy association, and I'm sorry for that. I always remember being at my great-grandma's house, and while she always served soda to all the kids, she gave me coffee. No milk, no sugar. I would wait until my mom turned around and suck down the potent brew from her cup, but of course when I started that, I was little. It wasn't long before I was given my own cup. Coffee has such an amazing history! It's built countries and economies, men have fought wars over and for it. It's been vilified by some, defended by others. There is a whole paragraph in one cookbook which gives the recipe for coffee at three pounds for 100 men. And there are medical treaties prescribing it. I personally can't see how I could not like it, but, for me the poor association is milk. And no amount of violent stomach problems prevents my mom from serving it in some form at every single meal.

@MopTop88 3 года назад

This episode was nothing to sneeze at. I learned a lot.

@idontknowwhattoputheremmmm9184 3 года назад

👉😎👉

@goodun2974 3 года назад

The History Guy obviously has a nose for a good story!🤫 (And anyone who doesn't like this episode is a real "drip!")

@BHuang92 3 года назад

"slow clapping"

@Russia-bullies 3 года назад

😄

@chiefpontiac1800 3 года назад

I have always been allergic to work. All these years of working, I have yet to find a cure, so I deal with my allergies and I am still working. WHAT WILLPOWER!

@shawnr771 3 года назад

Lol.

@sybilgibson6235 3 года назад

🤣🙃

@raydunakin 3 года назад

Maynard G. Krebs suffered from that same allergy.

@chiefslinginbeef3641 3 года назад

I know many people born with the mental ailment called socialism as well.

@allanlank 3 года назад

As an allergy sufferer, I thank you for this "History Deserves to be Remembered".

@MarianneKat 3 года назад

If the clean theory is right, i missed out big time yet have significant allergies. Grew up in a 1880s farmhouse and played in the barn, had horses chickens dogs and cats. Try being an icu nurse with allergies during covid. Good times.

@donttalkcrap 3 года назад

Yeah.. in 2019 if someone sneezed, no-one took any notice. NOW, if you sneeze, everybody turns around to look, people close their mouths, hold their breath and wonder for a moment whether you have COVID. LOL!

@chiefslinginbeef3641 3 года назад

@@donttalkcrap Maybe where you live it's basically been perfectly normal and the same as before where im at.

@andrewblake2254 3 года назад

Impressive. Grew up in 1880's and still at work!

@googiegress 3 года назад

@@andrewblake2254 People were built differently back then. You could put on a lot more miles before kicking the bucket. She said the farmhouse was 1880s, not that she was ;P

@kl2894 3 года назад

The History Guy channel is already a part of my weight loss journey. I find that listening to episodes of THG while I'm exercising, keeps my mind more occupied than listening to music does. It makes my sessions easier to complete. Thank you History Guy!

@jennhoff03 3 года назад

I have this thing called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, where I constantly develop allergies to anything in or on my body. It gets worse with exposure instead of better. Before the diagnosis, I had tried allergy shots and the doctor was flummoxed as to how I became MORE allergic every week instead of less. I repeatedly went into anaphylactic shock and finally stopped shots when I was at 1/64th of the starting dose (you're supposed to build up, not go down). I am lucky enough to live in a house with a fancy air filtration system, air purifiers in every room, all hardwood floors and leather furniture and wooden blinds, etc. I often muse on my ancestors who lived with this condition back in the day. I'd have actually died about a zillion times over if I had to be a farmer or sleep on a feather bed.

@k.c1126 3 года назад

I'm sure you are glad to have been born in this time. Many of your ancestral relatives likely didn't survive childhood.

@jennhoff03 3 года назад

@@k.c1126 Yeah. ....I mean I assume they lived long enough to procreate, but after that, I totally agree! ;'D

@k.c1126 3 года назад

@@jennhoff03 Thinking genetically, I suppose it would have been ancestors carrying a recessive gene that would have survived .... but yeah.... glad you are here now .... :o)

@darrylroederer2680 3 года назад

Over the past several years, I have been suffering from an Ever worsening case of kidney failure. A couple of weeks ago, I became a new dialysis patient. I have always had a very inquisitive mind and want to know how things work. So when they told me I was going to dialysis, the first thing I did was search RU-vid for practical information on the subject. Unfortunately, I came up short. I live in a small town of about 15000 people, and it is absolutely staggering to me to think that even in this small town, there are well over 100 patients at the dialysis center, including myself. That means that this modern medical miracle is allowing I'm out an actual percentage of the local population to lead happy, healthy, and productive lives in the face of a disease that would otherwise be fatal. I would very very much appreciate you doing an episode on dialysis. Thanks so much.

@darrylroederer2680 3 года назад

PS, I want to apologize for the grammatical errors in my above statement. I am also visually impaired and rely on the text-to-speech feature on my phone to make these messages, and it doesn't always do a very good job.

@goodun2974 3 года назад

@@darrylroederer2680 , Although I am not visually impaired, I often rely on the text to speech software as you do, and it's really not very good. If I say " comma" to insert punctuation, it translates as "comment"; the software will automatically capitalize any word or phrase that is also the title of a song or movie; and lately it gives me the British spellings for numerous words, such as favour, flavour, colour, behaviour, lyft and aluminium !

@kimbo99 3 года назад

Kidney failure caused by Type 2 diabetes can be reversed very quickly with Benfotiamine. Its a commercial secret.

@ericnorman5237 3 года назад

I grew up with severe allergies when young. I live in an area where it is common for people new to the area to “pick up” “new” allergies. Oddly enough in my case, I grew out of my allergies, and now they’re still around, but more nuisances.

@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад

It's quite common for kids to grow out of their allergies when they go thru puberty. Or at least the allergies lessen. Thats what happened to me. My asthma wasnt nearly as bad when I was in my 20s and 30s. But then allergies can return when one reaches late-middle age. I have no idea whether this is hormone related tho. But it sure seems like it.

@ronfullerton3162 3 года назад

And the opposite is possible. I never had problems until after I was fifty. Now each year seems to be a little worse. Thank heavens it is not anything so far that cannot to lived with or controlled.

@jolenethiessen357 3 года назад

I have the opposite problem - I had no allergies in childhood, and have been accumulating them in fits and starts since my late teens. I've abruptly developed no fewer than 6 new ones the past 4 months alone (and have multiple trips to the hospital to go with it). My mental health is doing poorly because you're terrified to eat. I have even had a reaction to inhalation a couple of weeks ago to a food that I never reacted to before!

@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад

@@jolenethiessen357 Yeah, thats rough, I know exactly what you mean. I have severe depression because I never know when it will happen. I know a girl who walked into the house one day and immediately went into anaphilic shock. Her mom was frying fish. -- I'm very allergic to grasses. I dont even leave the house during Spring unless I have to. I go into an asthma attack. Dont even get hayfever, just straight to asthma attack.

@anneeh1591 3 года назад

I have wondered on occasion whether or not deaths attributed to "poisoning' throughout history were actually allergic reactions

@Ann-kg1zd 3 года назад

Allergies have been a nightmare this year for me and nothing works over the counter. Been to an allergist with no help. Thanks for the video!

@donnaedwards3515 3 года назад

I truly enjoy the "deep dive" you present on unusual and fascinating subjects!!

@coling3957 3 года назад

I used to get really bad hay fever - and it struck at school exams especially. but it seemed to be fairly localised. as when i left school I lived in several different places around the UK and also Germany... and i never had any issues outside of Devon.... weird.

@stevedietrich8936 3 года назад

It could be that it wasn't your location, but rather the exams themselves. :)

@jolenethiessen357 3 года назад

It could have been a plant specific to that location. When I travel, my allergies can go either way depending on where I go. If it's during exams, if you always sit them at the same time if year, that's also logical.

@seangannon6081 3 года назад

I’m very interested to know how “killed by hippo” was taken as “ killed by wasp”.

@piltdownman2151 3 года назад

I was thinking the very same thing. While both would cause the same result there is hardly a comparison between not being able to breath because of anaphylaxis and a crushing bite.

@k.c1126 3 года назад

@@piltdownman2151 I could see where the "crushing" concept could have been connected to both, though. not being able to breathe can give the impact to the victim - and sometimes onlookers - of one's chest being "crushed". But interesting nonetheless.

@DarkZodiacZZ 3 года назад

Hippo sized wasp for sure.

@googiegress 3 года назад

Would you rather be bitten by a hippo-sized wasp, or stung by a 10,000 wasp-sized hippos?

@dorianmorrell2725 3 года назад

Histamine that deserves to be remembered.

@darrellsmith4204 3 года назад

You win the internet..

@thomasdarby6084 3 года назад

I have had life-long "hay fever," and allergic reactions to grass and tree pollen, and cat dander. I'm 69 now, and it isn't as bad as it was when I was 10, and my eyes would seal shut and I had to lay down with a wet cloth on my eyes. however I wonder if my lessening has to do with continued exposure. I've noticed that, in the last 20-30 years, there are more and more complaints of food-related allergies (including peanuts, soy, wheat) that I'd never heard of before. I wonder if a lot of these are caused by a combination of our over-processed foods, and our over-medicated society... such that our bodies don't have a chance to produce antibodies. Discounting those that claim allergic reactions just to get attention or money, there has to be something going on here. Kids growing up in the 60's and 70's didn't carry Epi Pens with them in case they sat next to someone eating peanuts. This deserves a deeper look.

@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад

I think it has to do with how we have insulated ourselves from nature.

@thomasdarby6084 3 года назад

@@billd.iniowa2263 Agreed. It has been proven that kids raised to spend all day indoors and with no contact sports or enjoyment of nature, grow up with more health problems.

@andrewblake2254 3 года назад

@@billd.iniowa2263 well if you listened to the talk you will hear that this is not sufficient to explain it.

@nirfz 3 года назад

Hay fewer usually gets better with ageing because it is an overreaction of the immune system. The immune systems reactions get less severe with age. So it has nothing to do with exposure. I gew up being outside almost the entire day (not in a city envirement) during the 80's. I've got severe "hay fever" that develloped slowly after puberty and since 2006 my body reacts badly whenever i eat something that contains bell pepper (in every form, so no matter if raw, cooked, dryed and made into a powder). Contains is the wrong word. If you put a slice of bell pepper on a piece of cheese for a few minutes and take it off before i eat the cheese it's the same is if i bite into bellpepper. My throat and esophagus swell and hurt for hours. Happened from one day to the next, before that i had no problem with any food. To add to that, i have never been exposed much to overprocessed food like all the meals you just put into the microwave or oven. Have been eating food from fresh ingediants for most of my live and been to a fast food restaurant the last time in July 2000 (and i can count the times i've been to one over all on one hand). So i don't believe in the processed food theories. I would tend to blame insecticides and herbicides.

@Swaggerlot 3 года назад

I recall my first thoughts of self-harm were as a pre-teen and were solely the result of severe seasonal asthma in the days before Ventolin and similar medicines were readily available. I remember those awful days still, nearly sixty years later.

@davidnoseworthy4540 3 года назад

Thank you THG, I am an allergy sufferer of mainly various plant pollens. This episode reinforced my knowledge of allergies even further. I found the different allergy sufferers throughout history, particularly interesting! Very much appreciated!

@gregcampwriter 3 года назад

My mother saw no reason to think that cleanliness took second place to godliness. Her floors were sterile enough for performing major surgeries on them, and that was while we had a golden retriever in the house. I blame her for the allergies and asthma that I have. My immune system never had a chance to learn that the world isn't a threat.

@nolgroth 3 года назад

The most "deadly" allergy I have, is to bee stings. That has not been a problem in my adult life. The most uncomfortable allergy is to the tall grasses around where I live. During the Spring, I have to constantly 'irrigate" my eyes to keep them from swelling shut.

@sandrataylor2323 3 года назад

As a sufferer of 13 different allergies, I was amazed that allergies were around centuries before. I always thought it was a modern affliction. Thanks for setting me straight.

@FLPhotoCatcher 3 года назад

It is much more common in the modern era. As mentioned in the video, farmers and those living in the country generally did not suffer from allergies. So, with most in the western world having a (compared to hundreds of years ago) high standard of living, and not being farmers, allergies have increased.

@goodun2974 3 года назад

@@FLPhotoCatcher There's a really good book simply titled "Good Germs, Bad Germs" that delves into the scientific research around the immune system, the microbes that are partly responsible for keeping us safe, and how living in extremely hygienic conditions is actually worse for us.

@oshgcan3350 3 года назад

As a child in late 1960s and early 1970s, I didn't know any kids allergic to peanuts or any other foods. Hayfever in the spring wasn't uncommon. Today, I know several young people with severe food allergies. I don't know which changed. The kids or the food.

@sandrataylor2323 3 года назад

@@oshgcan3350 I think it has to do with all the chemicals put on plants and what we ingest and inhale.

@thisnicklldo 3 года назад

@@oshgcan3350 My experience also. It seemed to me that allergies started in about 1990. In 1991 I met the first person I knew with nut allergy, and scoffed at it, until she nearly died after eating a dish with some peanuts. It must be a hygiene/life experience thing. I guess I was lucky to grow up when we played outdoors and ate what would now be considered unhealthy foods. Maybe I will die younger than the modern generation, but at least I don't have to carry inhalers and epi-pens everywhere I go.

@qbeard1 3 года назад

Been there, done that, still wear the T Shirt. Some times I just sneeze in continous succession. It's quite the work out.

@ajg617 3 года назад

I am allergic to dust, grass, trees and anything else you can think of. The only time I never suffered from allergies was when we lived on a boat on the NJ shore. Always an on-shore breeze and never had any allergy symptoms. What a shock when we moved into our first home....

@ELCADAROSA 3 года назад

Similar ... when out on the water on my boat the symptoms were much less, or not at all.

@nothingforyouhere418 3 года назад

Same. Best thing about working on a fishing boat

@cheebawobanu 3 года назад

13:26 The delightful Winsor McCay!

@samsorensen9765 3 года назад

Could the humpbacks from coughing be an actual description of cystic fibrosis. It’s historically a pediatric disease because people didn’t survive into adulthood until recently. It also causes humpbacks in modern people with the disease.

@atomic66 3 года назад

The "After skool" channel has an interesting video about modern farming and how the resulting changes in the food we eat has led to, among other things, the higher prevalence in allergies we are seeing now.

@steveoh9025 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Aw16LPVnNco.html

@k.c1126 3 года назад

I think the increase in allergies is likely a combination of factors, only one of which is changes is farming practices. The historical perspective suggests to me that some of the increase is likely due to improved diagnosis and reporting, but also connected to the decrease in desensitization of the general population to allergens as populations have shifted from agrarian to urban cultures. I wouldn't be surprised to find that mutations in the actual allergens themselves have contributed to increased allergic reactions among the human population.

@Chiller01 3 года назад

Closing in on a million subs. Well deserved when it happens.

@stevedietrich8936 3 года назад

Hippopotamus . . . wasp . . . yeah, I see how they could easily be confused . . .

@jtgd 3 года назад

You don’t know? Hippopotamus stings are lethal!

@kcthesledgestoryteller 3 года назад

You hit a hot button topic for me. I was largely exempted from duties on my grandparents’ farm because of my severe hay fever . About 5 years ago I finally took the big allergy test - 48 allergens, 48 positive. For the most part Zyrtec was getting the job done, even while owning a dog . But something about this particular year has me dealing with frequent stuffiness. I ca only speculate on one factor being the massive prevalence of dandelions this year.

@kimbo99 3 года назад

Try sleeping in a room with an air filter that incorporates an air ioniser causing airborne pollens to either fall to the floor or get trapped in the filter. You might at least get a better nights sleep.

@darlenewright5850 3 года назад

I salute you by waving the tissue!! Huzzah!

@TerrificRallyMaestro 3 года назад

Great video as always! I'd like to see you take on some of the history in SE Utah, particularly around Lake Powell -- lots of fascinating stories to be told, like the ancient Defiance House, the pass Mormons dynamited out of the gorge, and the creation of the dam itself.

@Sam-tb9xu 3 года назад

Do you have a list of the art you use during this episode? Some of those paintings and 1800s ads are amazing!

@rh5971 3 года назад

This episode is certainly nothing to be sneezed at!

@nukemanmd 3 года назад

I was born in 1951, and do not recall any instances of kids suffering from peanut allergies. Now it seems to be prevalent.

@googiegress 3 года назад

They found out feeding kids peanut products (don't start too young, but don't wait too long) dramatically reduces chance of peanut allergies. Turns out parents preventing their kids from ever eating peanut stuff was actually making the problem worse.

@charjl96 3 года назад

I may not be able to help suffering from allergies right now, but at least I can make light of it by watching this video!

@granslam175 3 года назад

As someone with non-genetic anaphylaxic allergies to Dairy and Egg, (and a lot of other things that I’ve grown out of over the last 17 years) I am so glad that you decided to make this video! I’ve always wondered how allergies fit into history, and previously my best understanding was that they started to surface in the 60s and have become more prevalent each year.

@skyden24195 3 года назад

Since I was born and lived in desert environments for the first 7 years of my life, I didn't have allergy attacks. It wasn't until my family moved to northern California, where plants and pollens were much more abundant, that I started having severe attacks. When my family had to move to Illinois, which had an even greater abundance of plant life, my parents had me seen by an allergist; I was 13-14 yrs old by then. I was given a scratch test, and of the 25 different allergen test triggers poked into my back, only three didn't have reactions: cat, dog, and horse; the only 3 animals that were tested on me. All other plant based spots had some level of reaction. I ended up being prescribed 2 preventative allergy shots in the shoulder, twice a week. Needles to say, I became numb to receiving medical injections ever after. I still get allergy attacks, but not as severely as when I was a kid.

@v.e.7236 3 года назад

I seem to be the only person in my family that doesn't suffer from allergies - and I am so grateful. Both my sisters suffer, as did my parents. Makes me feel like I won a lottery, of some sort.

@rickpitts2277 3 года назад

You did, enjoy your freedom and reward

@k.c1126 3 года назад

There is such a thing as adult-onset. Basically you can encounter allergy triggers as you age that didn't bother you when you were younger. Hopefully your allergy exemption lasts for the rest of your life!

@eliscanfield3913 3 года назад

I'm allergic to pot, hemp oil, and probably cbd. (Never tested that one) My shortness of breath and dizziness are controlled by allegra when the neighbor is enjoying one or two joints upwind. Usually.

@DawnOldham 3 года назад

My husband has allergies and asthma, and we have five kiddos with varying degrees of allergies. Mostly it’s to animals with fur. We have two with peanut allergies but can eat nuts, while my husband is fine with peanuts (which are a legume, or bean) but can’t even touch nuts! When they were young, two of the children had pretty bad eczema, but thankfully that went away! Allergies can make a person pretty miserable, so I’m forever grateful for Zyrtec and similar products!

@iac4357 3 года назад

I was born in '65, and remember my Dad & younger Sister always had Hayfever each Summer; while I did not. But once I got into my early-mid 20's, I too had allergies for several years. I also recall a coworker years ago said that susceptibility to pollen etc. can be like a "window" that can opens or closes every several years; triggering your allergies !

@richardgalli7262 3 года назад

A interesting piece of history. I wrote a paper on allergies in college for a English class and one thing stuck with me that you can develop an allergy to anything at anytime.

@MarvinStroud3 3 года назад

I hadn't seen Fred Ott's sternutation in several years. Thanks.

@foxcm2000 3 года назад

This is history that is still with us today!

@cernejr 3 года назад

I have suffered allergies for decades - no doctor, no book provided me such in-depth information. Thank you!

@kennethbailey2616 3 года назад

I love all of your videos!

@patrickfreeman8257 3 года назад

As I was performing a morning ritual, one that, once upon a time utilized pages from the Sears and Roebuck catalog, I couldn't help but wonder, what about the history of mail order?

@Expertpixelpusher 3 года назад

Cool to know that people in the ancient world were afflicted with the same thing I deal with on a regular basis. Makes me feel like I have it easy with my modern remedies. Thanks for the great insight, History Guy!

@wayne.edward.clarke 3 года назад

A while ago a flying doctor with a circuit among tropical islands found that every person living on one island was suffering from the same type of skin worms. He gave them the modern medicine for the skin worms, they were all cured, and then every one of them, without exception, developed an allergy to a common plant on the island that none of them had ever been allergic to before. It turned out that the immune response to the skin worms was still working, and the plant contained a chemical that was similar enough to a chemical on the skin worms to trigger the immune response that previously had been activated by the skin worms. This led to the theory that many allergies happen because something that used to attack us is no longer doing so, but the immune response to it is still powerful and is being triggered by another substance that has a chemical that is similar enough to a chemical in the original attacker to trigger the response. That's why, as noted in the video, the rich are more likely to have allergies, since they work and play outdoors far less often than others, and are more likely to be excessively clean beyond the requirements of good health, thus avoiding infections and parasites that have been common throughout history.

@richardwasserman Год назад

It's called a shared antigen.

@hithere8753 3 года назад

I'm allergic to stupidity. Everytime I watch the MSM I breakout into convulsions.

@matthewlivezey4304 3 года назад

As always - The History Guy delivers on bringing lesser known facts to the masses in an entertaining and informative way.

@Lew114 2 года назад

Great episode. I'm an allergy sufferer. I wouldn't have guessed that records of allergy suffering would exist all the way back to Ancient Rome, Persia, and ancient Egypt.

@jpkalishek4586 3 года назад

As a teen I suffered hay-fever if cutting grass, also a bit from cottonwood, and as I worked as a groundskeep, yeah, fun, then I moved to NOLA and didn't have too many problems once I had been there a few years (did I get used to it? Grow out of it?), but then I moved to Texas and oy. Zirtec and its generics are about all I can take or I get to feeling worse than the hay-fever causes, though I was getting to where I needed the meds less and less, though Now I've moved back up home, and have not had an issue in the 5 years I have been back.

@Nastyswimmer 3 года назад

Thankfully most of us don't need to worry about being allergic to hippos

@catatonicbug7522 3 года назад

I never had allergies as a kid on the West Coast, but once I moved to the Midwest, I developed allergies that have followed me, and I am now forced to take medication every day, all year long.

@lizj5740 3 года назад

My mother developed hayfever in her 40s when we moved from New York City to tidewater Virginia.

@dianebrewer6531 3 года назад

True that Benadryl makes you drowsy but when taken at night it is still very helpful. I have tried to do things that do not require medication although when all else fails Clariton-D is used.

@ericveneto1593 3 года назад

I had JUST watched Mr. Beat's FDA video.

@nate8313 2 года назад

you know, because of my ADHD I get a lot of random thoughts along the lines of "huh i wonder why this was a thing" and without fail some wonderful person out here in this big ole internet has spent hours researching, organizing, writing and editing the presentation of exactly the thing i wanted to know. thank you for joining their ranks today sir and appeasing my endless appetite to understand the world around me

@ScooBdont 3 года назад

In your research did you come across the link between allergies and parasitic worms? Some research has shown that the systems behind allergic reactions were originally tasked with defending the body against parasites and reintroduction of those parasites to people has caused their allergic reactions to completely disappear. It’s fascinating research that has huge implications.

@robertpierce1981 3 года назад

Some episodes make my eyes water. This one simply explains it.

@edschermerhorn5415 3 года назад

Interesting as always! I can only imagine that if I had been born a generation or more earlier, I wouldn’t have lived to adulthood. Several “near death” anaphylactic reactions to nuts nearly took me in my youth. Thankful for modern medicines and for food labeling to avoid most reactions now!

@houseofschenck6230 3 года назад

Thank you for these videos!

@Articulate99 Год назад

Always interesting, thank you.

@DadCanFixAnything 3 года назад

What about the relationship between certain proteins (such as that in peanut oil) mixed with an aluminum adjuvant, as it is found in numerous pharmaceutical patents, but for some mysterious reason excluded from the product labels?

@mikemcintosh9933 3 года назад

I was diagnosed in adolescence with food allergies including a sever one to chicken and certain legumes. Thank goodness for modern supermarkets. Had I been born in the past to a chicken farmer I might not have lived to adulthood!

@TrickiVicBB71 3 года назад

I have really bad pollen allergies. This was a really informative and learning video. thank you THG

@jjab99 3 года назад

Great video as always, Many Thanks.

@barbaramullins4233 3 года назад

I live in Southwest Virginia and the pollen count is off the scale this year.

@hilslamer 2 года назад

Unbelievable set of reference.

@amywright2243 3 года назад

I admit I tend to skip the sponsor ads. But NOOM! How cool! I started Noom a week ago, and I've already lost 4 pounds! That's 16 sticks of American butter. ☺️ Very happy to see them sponsoring THG.

@1st1anarkissed 3 года назад

I did not have allergies until after two rounds of chemotherapy. They never mentioned it as a side effect until I got sick from extreme catarrh. (Love that word)

@r.awilliams9815 3 года назад

It's tree pollen that gets me, alder and cottonwood trees specifically. March and April are hell, but it tapers off through May and I'm back to normal (whatever that is) by June 15. Taking OTC meds helps somewhat, but I still explode every hour or so.

@goneutt 3 года назад

Seneca described an asthmatic attack, and how a fast or coarse diet would minimize the attacks. Wine barrels have always been treated with a sulfur candle, and sulfites are a surprise allergen.

@OrdinaryMan666 3 года назад

I suffer with severe allergic rhinitis and am allergic to dairy products so really appreciated this video

@dubyah8824 3 года назад

Woah, Zyrtec and Claritin too from ‘87/‘88 to not long ago to become generic? That seems like a long time!

@rogerbknight 3 года назад

I had severe environmental allergies,; dust, mites, pollen and molds. I took three years of desensitizing injections over thirty years ago and suffer very little from allergies.

@hatuletoh 3 года назад

Ancient Egypt's worst detective: "Our beloved pharaoh was killed by a wasp...or possibly a hippopotamus. It's too early to tell at this point; we're awaiting the autopsy results before making a final conclusion. We'll have a clearer picture of what occurred once his organs are in little jars and we've yanked out his brain through his nose." [And yes, I know the confusion is due to a possible translation error, not the ancient Egyptians being unable to tell the difference between death by wasp and death by hippo. But it's much more amusing to imagine a group of ancient cops standing over the body, perplexedly scratching their heads as they quietly debate "wasp vs. hippo" among themselves.]

@constipatedinsincity4424 3 года назад

Summer guitar 🎸. I prefer a Stratacaster.

@mr.pitjoey2910 3 года назад

If you move from one region of the country to another I am sure that is a big factor. Born and raised in western Washington state and never had allergies until I moved to the southwest. Some dirt is good for you, pollen/dust is different from where I was raised. So I have allergies now.

@OffRampTourist 2 года назад

Good subject.

@harrygato2582 3 года назад

I grew up in southern Ontario, the worst place in the world for ragweed. I suffered so much I had to leave. I’ve thought about how people lived before seasonal allergy treatments quite a lot. I think they simply didn’t live. Allergies caused many more deaths than we ever realized, especially among children. The overall prevalence seemed lower because these deaths were attributed to other things and because the allergic didn’t have as high a chance of breeding. Modern treatments have allowed allergic people to live normal lives and raise children. To the extent that allergies or tendencies to allergies are genetic, allergies have been magnified. Add to that pollutant exposure as a causal agent and we have many more allergic people in the population.

@k.c1126 3 года назад

As a person suffering mightily this spring, I appreciate the historical perspective ....

@lp-xl9ld 3 года назад

I used to live near a pharmaceutical plant where penicillin or a derivative thereof was apparently produced. There were signs saying THOSE WITH ALLERGIES TO PENICILLIN SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN THIS AREA posted near it. I'd always close the windows and air vents in my car when driving near there.

@lxoxrxexnx 3 года назад

I have personal knowledge of allergy. I lose a lot of springtime activity as a result.

@charlesachurch7265 3 года назад

Powered datura leaves mixed with salt Peter was set alight and the smoke inhaled as an asthma cure. It was a green powder and was sold in tins like shoe polish.

@7891ph 3 года назад

This one really hit close to home, as I've suffered from environmental allergies all of my life. And it's not just natural triggers; I've wound up in the hospital several times due to violent reactions to various workplace chemicals. To the non allergy croud, this stuff can be life threatening, and are not figments of us sufferers imagination....

@johnlarson111 3 года назад

my allergist, when I was growing up in 1955, took the dust from our house and made a serum. worked for my allergies until he died. the extracts didn't work as well

@theneonexplorer 3 года назад

This video came just as I accidentally ate a food I was allergic to last week. A food I first reacted to in 2007. And consistently reacted to for 14 years. And all of a sudden... Nothing. Not so much as itchiness or anything. I've been eating my former allergen every meal for a week where I am not eating alone. Nothing. So weird.

@masterimbecile 3 года назад

Minor thing: Claritin doesn't cause drowsiness because it can't enter the brain like Benadryl can. In the brain, histamine is a chemical responsible for alertness, so anything with antihistamine property that can enter the brain (e.g. some 1st generation antidepressants) also causes sleepiness.

@t.m.6505 3 года назад

Great show! How about the history of shaving/barbers?

@goodun2974 3 года назад

That would be a good subject, especially considering that barbers also did double duty as dentists and surgeons once upon a time.

@rickpitts2277 3 года назад

The history of the Barber Pole, and what it means.

@clydedopheide1033 3 года назад

I love the varied topics you cover.

@EhhAbob 3 года назад

I love your content and look forward to yours shows. I would like to make a suggestion for a video topic on the history of cranes (not the bird)

@dinobuddy 3 года назад

Was at a tag sale recently, and they had some very old Page's Inhaler cigarettes for the treatment of asthma. Principal ingredient? Jimsonweed!

@dougearnest7590 3 года назад

Don't all great stories involve papyrus?

@stevedietrich8936 3 года назад

Nice!

@piltdownman2151 3 года назад

Very

@goodun2974 3 года назад

Doug, yes, all great reeds, those that have been skillfully woven, do indeed involve papyrus.

@Sir_Uncle_Ned 3 года назад

I had extremely bad hayfever. Now I’ve got an air filter running all day so as long as I maintain it, i don’t get major flares.

@slartybartfarst55 3 года назад

I suffered from severe Bronchial Asthma as a child. In those days, the death rate was 50% before the age of 14. Thanks to Doctor Morrow Brown, a pioneer in the treatment of Asthma, I survived and grew out of it. This great man is often overlooked. He worked out of a small portable cabin set up by the side of the Central Hospital in Derby, England.