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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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Your mom. She gets all flush and blurry eyed when I vibrate her.
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 she's self-serving? I can believe that about any politician.
Maybe with you, but with the rest of us she never complains!
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!
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...
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
In most cases where type 1's develop the disease and are not born with it
I'm Type 1 as well. Although we weren't "born with it", we were most certainly born with the genetic marker that made us susceptible to it (I'm sure you know this).
I had this odd skin reaction that was like just random inflammation
Maybe that odd skin reaction is what triggered the auto-immune response that attacked your islet cells? I know correlation-and-causation and all of that, but it makes you wonder about a lot of things that you could catch that would trigger that response (the Coxsackie virus has been implicated, but is somewhat inconclusive).
Just remember, we're only 10 years away from cure, and have been for over 30 years now ;-)
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
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.
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.....
--PM
"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?
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.