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Advanced Corn Allergy Help: Tracking Down Mystery Reactions
Here’s the situation I was in a year ago: I had been corn and gluten free for 6 years, and thought I had it all figured out. Then suddenly I started having anaphylactic reactions to previously safe...
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Don’t Panic: A Beginners’ Guide to Corn Allergy
So you’re allergic to corn. First: Are you SURE you are allergic to corn? People often forge ahead with this as an assumption and in some cases, it might be best to question it, at least for a minute....
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To Epi or Not to Epi?
If you haven’t read about Natalie Giorgi’s tragic death due to an allergic reaction already, catch up here. It’s a sobering story: her parents did everything right, yet she still died. This article by...
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Eating Seasonally: Prepare for Flu Season now!
Elderberries are in season on the Pacific NW and may be in your area as well! If, like me, you’re too sensitive to traces and cross contamination to tolerate any of the prepackaged elderberry syrups or...
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Xyzal and Zyrtec can now be compounded!
For those in the USA who are too sensitive to traces and cross contamination to handle any off-the-shelf antihistamines, I have great news! Levocetirizine, brand name Xyzal, and Cetirizine, brand name...
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Update on Compounding Xyzal and Zyrtec
Hi all, I’ve been quiet, busily getting the last of the summer/early fall produced preserved while I can, but I just wanted to update you with the compounded antihistamine situation. So Xyzal and...
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Corn Free Asthma Treatment
What’s corny about asthma inhalers? The propellant in modern HFA puffer-style inhalers almost always contains ethanol from corn. There are several steroid or combination steroid-and-topical-anti...
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Ask Corn Allergy Girl: Finding a Compounding Pharmacy
The Question Hello, I recently developed an allergy to ALL of my prescription medications. I take several of them and they are medications that I desperately need. Everytime I take them I have itching....
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Corn Free Xyzal, Finally!
I just received an email from my compounding pharmacist out of the blue that he was able to order some Xyzal for me and that it’ll be in in two weeks! His timing couldn’t be better, as I am dealing...
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Corn Free Travel (Reprise)
It’s getting to be my travel season again, and while I haven’t solved most of my problems, I’m at least getting better at working around them. My last travel post was nearly a year ago, and was my...
View ArticleCurrently Available Low-Cost Epipen Alternatives Are NOT Safe!
In an emergency, an manual draw epinephrine injection kit is NOT an appropriate replacement for an autoinjector. Additionally, the syringe based auto injectors such as Adrenaclick are NOT an ideal...
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Hospital and Medical Safety With a Corn Allergy
Learn something from this post? Feel free to show your appreciation with a tip! The info on my blog is always free, so you are never obligated. But it is always appreciated. Updated 2/21/2017 I’ve...
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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month: My Life as a Zebra
May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness month, and this is one of the rare diseases I am diagnosed with. So I’m taking a moment to depart from the topic of corn allergy to give you some info about it....
View ArticleI’ll go vegetarian if you go corn free.
Over a year ago, someone commented on my post detailing the challenges of finding corn-free meat by asking why one would not become a vegetarian instead of going to all that trouble. My diet, and the...
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Hemolytic Anemia & G6PD Deficiency: How I survived intravenous corn derivatives.
If you’ve ever read my posts on ER Safety, Hospital Safety, or the Hidden Corn- Medical Supplies post, you probably know that blood transfusions contain corn derivatives. I’ve known this a while and...
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Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
This blog is about corn allergy, but it’s no secret by now that I don’t “just” have a corn allergy. I also have a mast cell disorder, and that is likely the reason my corn reactions are so severe and...
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Hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: What I Wish Everyone Understood
What is Hypermobility? Hypermobility refers to unstable joints that bend farther than they should. Many hypermobile people do not realize that what they do is out of the range of normal motion or...
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