LC and Non-food Sensitivities?

JFR · Post by **JFR** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:52 am

I also am sensitive to scents and have used non-scented products for years. Even as a child the smell of perfume would give me a headache. When I was older, in college, I started wearing expensive Dior Perfume for a while, and that didn't bother me, so I too think it is the artificial odors that are the problem. I use a washer and drier that is shared with other apartments. I always have to check the drier to make sure no one has left a drier sheet inside. Once, when I didn't check, I had to rewash all my clothes because I couldn't tolerate the scent left on my laundry. Fragrances give me a headache.

Jean

Leni · Post by **Leni** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:54 am

Thanks for your responses, Pat C and Brandy. I really wonder if everything is all interconnected- we just seem to be so much more sensitive to so much more than the "average bear".

Leni · Post by **Leni** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:19 pm

I had an interesting experience today at work- I walked into the common area, which smelled heavily of the 3rd hand smoke of 70 patients then was confronted by the scents of several different colognes. My nose started to run like a faucet and kept running for over an hour. Not fun.

Post by **tex** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:02 pm

All of these problems are due, of course, to inappropriate mast cell degranulation, associated with MC.

Tex

Leni · Post by **Leni** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:52 pm

Oh dear, tex. I'll have to look this up. This is all new to me.

Post by **tex** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:55 pm

Hi Leni,

I'm currently trying to consolidate a lot of the data that we've discussed on this site about mast cells, to make it easier to understand. It will take me a few more days to get it done, though. In the meantime, the thread at the following link contains some information to get you started. The post by Mary Beth (the third post in the thread) contains a lot of links to good information sites.

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17624

Tex

Leni · Post by **Leni** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:49 pm

Thanks for the link, tex. I'm slowly trying to digest (pun intended) all of this new information. Some of it is over my head but it's a relief to know that there is a physical cause for these goofy symptoms. I'm not as crazy as I thought I was.