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How do I know if I am allergic to Omeprazole?

How do i know if i am allergic to foods or medicine?

  • how do i know if i am allergic to foods or medicine? Like right now i dont think i am allergic to any food or medicine but in future if i am trying out new foods or medicine...i am scared that i might be allergic to them...so how do i know if i am allergic or not? like i am scared to take new medication as i am scared i might be allergic to them :( how do i take my fear away?

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    Generally the first time you take something that you are allergic to, it is not as bad as if you take it again. Usually allergies show up in a rash but they can be more severe, such as bee stings, etc. once you know of allergies, you take an antihistamine pen with you just in case. You seem incredibly paranoid about allergies. Do people in your family have allergies? Most are inherited. You can go and get allergy tests done and they do them on your back and they give you a bit of different things in little pricks there and then you break out if you are allergic. It is small amount and controlled. But don't assume you are allergic, particularly if your family is not super allergic. If you wanted to be careful, then take a small about of new food and wait for any reaction before trying more. With med, could try one and if you don't break out or have trouble breathing, then you can take them. This is not to make you paranoid but only not to take if you are one of the unusual ones who have an allergy. Assume you are not allergic unless your immediate family have allergies.

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Live life in it's fullest. You can't let your fears about new foods and medications rule your life, I'm certainly not letting my allergies rule mine. I can understand if your scared that you could get an anaphalectic shock which is the worst reaction to an allergy you can get, but it's unlikely that you will have this problem, because even if you are allergic to anything you'll probably get a slight sour throat, or a rash. If there's no reason for you to suspect that you might have allergies (i.e. a family member has an allergy or you have hay fever or asthma,) then i would leave the doctors out of it, because i don't think that there's anything that they can do to help. REMEMBER! If there's no one in the family who have allergies its unlikely that you will.

Amber Blossom

You won't know until you are exposed to it- you may be able to get a doctor to do an allergy test in which they will prick you with a ton of different needles and expose you to the different foods and medicinces and see if you react to any- thats safer since its a controlled environment. But i don't know if a doctor would do it just to see what you are allergic to unless you had a reaction that you werent sure what it was from.

Amanda K

There is an allergy test you can take which tells you what you're allergic to. Ask your doctor. They put on your arm various samples of common and not-so-common allergens and see which of these your body reacts to.

DУϨL∃ҲIC bunny

you could try going to a naturopath and they can do a allergy test on you for everything foods etc.

ames

You need to stop. If you develop a reaction to something, then you do. But you can't live your life being afraid to try anything. Get over it!! Eat new foods!

Paul RN

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