Sukie Crandall wrote:
>Allergies are very hard to work around and that is what is at the base
>of vaccine reactions: allergies the ferrets have.  It is possible to
>reduce the types and amounts of compounds which are more likely to be
>allergenic but anything at all can cause an allergy in someone: common
>foods, beautiful scents, vaccines, antibiotics, companion animals, the
>waste of dust mites, fungal spores, pollen, etc.
 
I occasionally have a reaction to certain meats, but it is rare, and not
consistent.  Some have said I have a general "meat allergy", but I don't
buy that, as I eat the same kinds of meat all the time, with no reaction.
It has *something* to do with *whatever* is IN certain meats (hormones,
genetically modified, etc.).
 
I wonder if it is the same when ferrets have a reaction?  When it happens
to me, I itch ALL over, inside and out; everywhere I scratch, welts
appear.
 
Gary
[Posted in FML issue 4311]