On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Hans-Ulrich THOMAS wrote:
 
> >Do any others have allergy tales? What did you do about the allergy
> >- were you able to get rid of it?
 
Frankly, I like the snake bite theory.
 
I'm allergic to bees and I run 1500+ hives.  However the stings don't
affect me, just the bees.  So I try not to roll in them.
 
My son got sensitive when he was small. He's out right now pulling (I
hope) a couple of hundred supers of honey.
 
I remember driving him to the hospital and sitting outside to see if it
got bad enuff to take him in.  It didn't - quite.
 
He was stubborn kid (come to think of it he hasn't changed) and he
insisted in walking around barefoot in the honey house and of course he
got a few nicks in his feet from the bees he walked on and lo and behold
he got over it.
 
A beekeeper friend had a son who got very sensitive and took treatment.  I
think he is extracting in the family honey house right now.
 
Many doctors (it seems to me) don't know what a real bee-sting allergy is.
A lot think that swelling (normal) is a sign of the end.  I had a bunch of
my extractor ops diagnosed as 'allergic' by some twit who didn't know that
swelling is a normal reaction :(
 
Anything that doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
 
Allen
 
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