• dumples@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    The hypothesis is that you are eating all of the flower allergens that are causing your allergies. The body usually doesn’t react to things you eat so by consuming those allergens your body does have an immune response since it’s part of food.

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      8 months ago

      This is a fine point because I have oral allergy syndrome, which is my body violently reacting to bananas because of my ragweed allergy and my immune system being dumb as hell.

      But also o do react less to flower pollen with a spoon of local honey a day so maybe it’s just a big weird world we live in.