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Researchers Uncover the Genetic Roots Behind Rare Vibration Allergy (vice.com)
derekmead writes: A team of National Health Institute researchers has for the first time uncovered the genetic roots of one of the strangest allergies: vibrations. The vibration allergy, which is just as it sounds, may be quite rare, but understanding it more completely may yield important insights into the fundamental malfunctioning of immune cells in the presence of allergens. The group's findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition to being uncommon, the vibration allergy is not very dangerous. In most cases, the allergic response is limited to hives—the pale, prickly rash most often associated with allergic and autoimmune reactions. Other less-common symptoms include headaches, blurry vision, fatigue, and flushing. The triggering vibrations are everyday things: jogging, jackhammering, riding a motorcycle, towel drying. Symptoms appear within a few minutes of exposure and are gone usually within an hour.
And what if I have a vibration allergy in the 2.4 GHz range?
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The devil is their master
1) Turn up the bass
2) develop skin herpes
3) ????
4) Profit, probably.
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Maybe thats why my wife complains about a headache after she uses he vibrator???
Your mom. She gets all flush and blurry eyed when I vibrate her.
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The triggering vibrations are everyday things: ... jackhammering
Really?
and why does it involve vibration... i just hang shit up and thermodynamics happens, how is everyone else drying there towels?
Jackhammering is an every day thing? Maybe to some people I suppose.
So if they started shivering they'd break out in a rash? Interesting.
He is their ruler.
So she's self-serving? I can believe that about any politician.
Could the vibrations cause enough heat to trigger it? Perhaps mislead the body into thinking it's next to a heat source.
Just wondering because i suffer from another rare allergy, from cold allergy, started around age 5 or 6 on my face cheeks.
Perhaps these allergies may all have something in common or strong similarities at the genetic level?
I guess it is too early in the age of this thread to get any useful comments other than jokes about vibrators and normal political trolls.. no surprise.
I think they might be onto something here. I have type 1 diabetes and have had for 20 years. I had a lot of bizarre allergies as a kid to normal things that no one else was allergic to and a lot of allergic responses that seemed to have no explanation. I tell that story to share this:
I came down with type 1 when I was in my mid 20s, and have been involved in research since being diagnosed and have learned a lot about the disease and how it comes about for some people (myself included) In most cases where type 1's develop the disease and are not born with it, the auto-immunity has been brewing for about a decade before the diagnosis happens. (You can be pre-type 1 diabetic and still not have symptoms. You can be down to a 2% functional islet mass in the pancreas and still not have high blood sugar.) Point is that the disfunction that brings about type 1 starts as much as 10 years or so before the functional islet mass population goes below 2% and full blown type 1 diabetes comes about.
I remember when I was about 12, I had this odd skin reaction that was like just random inflammation, and I could never figure out what caused it. It used to really freak people out.. I could sometimes just take my fingernail and scratch lightly on my arm and write words and about 20 to 30 minutes later the word would swell up and turn red and look like someone had carved a word on me with a knife and then 20 minutes after that it was gone. Odd, random inflammation. Scratching can be a kind of low vibration so this seems to have something to it. Anything that lets us understand what is going on with the adaptive immune system sheds some light on the development of type 1 and other related diseases that share the same pathways (this includes diseases like Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ulcerative Colitis, Multiple Sclerosis, Shogrens syndrome and scleroderma to name a few.) The more we know about what is happening the more we can find genes and immune cells and chemicals and proteins that are part of the process that are players in the disease and will help bring out better ways of diagnosing the disease and treating and eventually curing it.
So in summary I think that this sheds some light on my experiences with auto-immune disease.
Motorboating.
I love stuff like this. Finding a scientific explanation for something that sounds like baloney. All the bogus gluten and electricity allergies have made me very skeptical about things like this, but this is fascinating. It sort of rubs me wrong, it doesn't make sense to me that vibration could induce an allergic reaction, but I cannot deny evidence like this.
Man, you really need that seminar!
They're just allergy hives! I'm allergic to repetitive motions. Honest!
Say that when you have annoying physical symptoms associated with exposure to an allergen.
Could this be behind "wind turbine illness" a lot of people now complain about?
In short, they literally allergic to physical exertion.
Reminds me of my Ex...
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Jesus christ being sensitive to vibrations is not an allergy.
But having a histamine response to vibration is the very definition of an allergy.
The fuck is wrong with people.
Your comment makes me wonder the same thing.
Jesus christ being sensitive to vibrations is not an allergy.
I didn't even know he was sensitive.
The fuck is wrong with people.
Ok, thanks for the diagnosis. At least there are pills for that.
..and I can't jog as a result. Jogging more than a few blocks triggers one of the itchiest sensations I have ever felt throughout my leg muscles. It takes an hour to dissipate.
I remember when I was about 12, I had this odd skin reaction that was like just random inflammation, and I could never figure out what caused it. It used to really freak people out.. I could sometimes just take my fingernail and scratch lightly on my arm and write words and about 20 to 30 minutes later the word would swell up and turn red and look like someone had carved a word on me with a knife and then 20 minutes after that it was gone.
That's dermatographic urticaria. It's relatively common - about 5% of people have it.
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It never bothered me much, frankly, but my arms would itch every time I would mountain bike going over washboarded paths. Usually I was hanging on too hard to the handlebars to really pay much attention to it.....
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must be tough to have sex,....
"You know what else vibrates? RADIO WAVES!!!"
I have “touch urticaria.” Especially at night when I like in bed, the pressure against my skin causes histamine production. I’ve had this checked out, and while my histamine levels are high, my IgE levels are completely normal, so this is NOT an allergic reaction. Something else is putting excessive histamine into my system. A dietician suggested that it could be intestinal flora generating histamine, and a dietary change may help, so I’ve been working on that. But at this point, I have to take Allegra every night so I can get to sleep without itching and scratching for hours. (Fexodenadine is very weak, but it's the only antihistamine I can stand — all others zombify me the next day, including Claritin and Zyrtec.)
My hands swell and get itchy when I use a weedeater for longer than 30 minutes at a time.
I know this isn't web MD, but I think i finally have an allergy.....shit.
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
These things don't work as advertised for these people then...
This makes me sound like I browse WebMD and then believe that I have every malady out there but I've been diagnosed with Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis and Urticaria (http://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/1015/p1367.html). However, my doctor indicated that even vibrations can set it off. I once broke out in hives while just standing at a concert. The boom-boom-boom of the beats over the course of a couple of hours was, apparently, enough to bring out the hives. Shit sucks. I have to take Zyrtec to exercise, take a flight, go to a concert, or use my jackhammer.