I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy.
I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy.
@@DarinM1967 when I finally went to see the doctor after I turned 40 , I had to get a skin allergy test. Turns out I AM allergic to grass, goldenrod, and ragweed. Go figure?
I’m a Gen Joneser, and when I was 14 (in 1973) I started to get the “creeping crud” rash on my fingers, then the tops of my toes, that my mother got sometimes. Horribly itchy little fluid-filled blisters, that would bleed if I scratched too much, and would take 3 weeks to heal. Fast forward to 2002, when I tried the Atkins diet to lose weight, and quit eating wheat or other grains. Surprise! No more creeping crud! It took me years after that to find out it was non-Celiac gluten intolerance. Yeah, it was the new millennium when I found out what it was.
That's true, isn't it? There were two kids in my class with some wild allergies. I found this out, like, 35 years later in a Facebook conversation. We really did not talk about things like that. We kept our issues close to the chest, not because they were a sign of weakness or anything, but... thinking back on it now, it just wasn't cool to show everyone all your stuff.
I hear you I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5.
yup! I remember. You couldn't even let kids know you hated whatever you mom packed in your lunchbox that day. I had to pretend to like it until I could secretly toss it away and the lunch lady ALWAYS rated me out to my big sister who would rat me out to my mom. Gah!!!! And she would still pack the same sandwich the next day knowing full well I was not going to eat it then either. I have no idea why.
Makes my allergy sound almost enjoyable. I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5.
That's actually REALLY inaccurate. Families and neighbors were involved in our upbringings. People cared about each other but you MAGA are so self involved, entitled and bitter. $100 says you're anti-reproductive freedom for women AND for cuts in social services to needy kids and their Mother's once the kid is born. You people LOVE a fetus, just not kids.
We had three kids "move"... when I was in elementary school. Only knew the one... but their parents kept showing up at church and the grocerys. Never did see "billy" again
I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5.
All I know is I remember if my Mom punished me by not sending me to school with a lunch in the 70’s, the Cafeteria ladies didn’t let me go hungry. They whipped up a couple of of the industrial grade peanut butter sandwiches. Nobody cared about peanut allergies back then!
I was so allergic to milk that I couldn't eat any bread except sourdough. Also, my mom had to make me sorbet before that was even a thing. My allergies were so bad that the allergist told my parents that moving somewhere else wouldn't work because I would just develop new ones. And to prove how GenX I was, I was giving myself allergy shots at 6 years old!
A few of my Gen X peers had milk allergies in their youth, but it's the kind that they just got juice instead. We didn't ban the entire class from having PB&J.
@@fett713akamandodragon5 from 1992 to 2012 hospital admissions for food allergy anaphylaxis increased 615%. They fully tracked food allergy issues starting in 1990.
@@fett713akamandodragon5 Not only. Allergies actually are more common, and more serious. It's just a result of genetics andcadvances in medical science. People with recessive genes for dangerous allergies like that were simply filtered out of the gene pool 50 years ago. Now they live, breed with people with the same recessive gene and bang.
My cousins was allergic to grass, weeds and trees. And he was a pretty good football player until his knee went out in college. The point being, he wasn't an indoor kid as that wasn't allowed back then.
They didn’t make every other kid responsible for the allergic kid’s condition. And allergies like deathly allergy to peanuts wasn’t *as common* to our knowledge. PB&J remained a staple of many of our childhoods. But yeah, they DID exist, for sure.
I remember a girl in my scout troop who had a wheat allergy. She never talked about, except the time we made a stop at McDonald's and she ordered her burger with no bun. She said the doctors said she might outgrow it. But now that I know about celiac disease... it seems unlikely.
My hayfever was so bad, I had to get shots every week to build up a resistance. Of course, that didn't stop my father making me pull ragweek out of the back yard.
Growing Up as an Italian Kind with a Single Pure Italian Mother? I Ate whatever the hell she made! hahaa ! gubment cheese was a staple in the 70's for us growing up poor! And man that WAS Kryptonite!
I always had a little cough after PB&J. Mom would say that’s what I get for eating so fast! By age 30 my tongue swelled and throat was scratchy after having a PB shake. Told my doctor. He told me to stop eating peanuts before I kill myself and said it’s a miracle I survived that long! 15 yrs later if I’m in the same room with peanut powder my throat closes! Thanks again Mom!
Had some shellfish allergies that developed when I got to be an adult. It always caused numbness and tingling to my lips, but never bothered the back of my throat luckily. Also upsets my stomach. That being said, I always worry that it could get much worse. So I always avoid those foods.
Knowing there was a food that made us fart wasn't a blemish in the 80's. That was a gift!! Duck eggs. We had 5 Ducks and they laid eggs. If I ate Duck Eggs the night before, being on the school bus I went to school on? You did NOT want to be on that bus.
My best friend in third grade, Faith had asthma. She left her inhaler with the nurse, because it was a school rule. We went to lunch, and after lunch we had recess. We were outside for about ten minutes, and she started having an asthma attack. She told me to get the nurse. I ran for the door, but the teachers were standing around talking, and telling me I couldn't go in and to wait a minute. The aids told me no one was allowed back inside. I screamed out Faith can't breathe. That got the teachers running. A teacher ran for Faith, and another for the nurse. I wanted to help, but they told me to go to class, because by then recess was over. Yes, it took that long to get to get their attention. By the time they got to Faith, she was passed out. That was the last day I saw Faith. I heard she ended up in the hospital in a coma. When she came out of the coma, she was like an infant. Then, she passed away. I gave up on life after that. This was the straw that broke me. My mom, had the opportunity to take me to see Faith, but she always refused to drive me anywhere, why should this be any different?. School policies changed because of her. They now allow kids to hold onto their own inhalers at lunch and recess. The policy is named after her last name. They named this policy in memory of Faith. I still cry a little thinking of her. She was the nicest girl, quiet and smart. She was not a popular kid, many didn't even know who she was, but that didn't matter to me. She was my best friend and only friend, and I was hers. RIP Faith♥️
I didn’t have allergies growing up, but sadly I do now. They were apparently the reason for my health issues. That said. I don’t push my allergies on anyone & I despise people who claim to have allergies & don’t
Only thing I was allergic to back then was whatever they put in Hubba Bubba bubblegum that kept it from sticking to your lips. Made my lips swell up more than a Beverly Hills housewife.
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 LOL, I had my mother laughing hysterically as I was doing my best impression of Mushmouth from Fat Albert at full swell. I don't even think they took me to the doctor.
Government Cheese was my favorite thing. I used to make Government peanut butter and govt. Cheese sandwiches for after school, before football snacks. I'd run the entire 1.5 miles to & from home for a couple of those sandwiches and a half gallon of milk. So I could get back in time for football practice & weightlifting team practice immediately following.
When I was young my mother took me to an Allergy Doctor. Had to repeat the testing several times due to how many allergies I had. For several years I had to get two shots every week then it finally dropped down to one every week. Like someone posted already "If it don't kill you it will make you stronger", well I guess that is true bc I'm still here after 56 years.
Dont forget those one or two kids who got to go home for lunch when i was in elementary school. I have a bee allergy. When i was stung on the arm in PE, they just sent me to the school nurse who gave a frozen cup of ice (in one of those tiny Snoopy paper cups) to put on the swelling. Then sent me back to class.
I remember as a grade school girl being really jealous of my friend who had allergies and asthma. Absolutely asinine in retrospect, I certainly wasnt thinking about kids "moving" from it, but she got to miss school, which sounded ideal to my undiagnosed ADHD brain. Of course when I developed horrible allergies and mild asthma myself as a 14 year old, requiring 2 shots a week, the novelty wore off quickly. I would be fine if I was allergic to some easily avoidable substance. I was lucky none of my many allergies were the kind to put me into anaphylaxis. I will say getting all those Scratch tests, and weekly shots totally cured my fear of needle pain. When I developed diabetes in my 30s, my only needle fear was giving myself an embolism from an air bubble, (which apparently is only slightly more likely than quicksand. )
We just didn't know. When Tuna Twist (a product of seasonings and soy protein, to extend a can of tuna into 6 sandwiches), came out, it didn't last long on the market, because it made people with soy allergies (many of whom didn't know they were allergic, because soy products were fairly rare in North America) extremely sick.
Although we grew up eating an abundance of sugary cereals, we also ate more real meat and real butter used as a cooking oil. Today, many people are experiencing health problems from changes in hormone levels due to overconsumption of stuff like GMO soybeans, rapeseed and artificial 'fillers' in processed and fast food.
I developed a latex allergy when i was 8. I went in for shots, left with a bandaid that had latex in it. 4 days later, i woke up in the hospital. Back then, it seemed like latex was in everything.
All I know is...Now that I'm a Gen.X. O.G..."Hindsight is 2020", I would've asked my Mom to tell the Elementary School that I was allergic to peanuts. That free lunch I had to consume... (Those peanut butter sandwiches and that bread...) My Parents played the system...I F*cking Love my 'Boomer" Parents!
Look. There are so many issues that exist today because they never used to process foods as horribly as they do now. Americans have just gotten lazy and want to find the quick food options because of their “busy schedules”. My grandmother had 6 kids. 2 of them were twins. She was up before dawn, worked in the home all day, took care of the kids by herself while my grandfather was working, and still had time to make 3 well rounded meals for the entire family and still found time for knitting and sewing. She handmade their clothes when they were babies as well as blankets and such. She was a rock star.
Your grandma was awesome. I'm sorry for your loss. However, it's not just the prepared foods that are processed, and it's not out of laziness people don't eat better. We ALL don't eat well, and it's not by choice. There are three issues to our food problems. 1) world wide overpopulation. In 1970, there were just over 3 billion people in the world. Every country had its own food source, and first world countries were prosperous. Today, we have 8 billion people in the world. Land is being used for manufacturing, and farms are disappearing, but we have more mouths to feed. There's not enough food to go around. 2) Greedy corporations found by adding fillers, and modifying DNA, (gmo- genetically modified food), they could stretch and alter our food. This way they can cut down on the amount of meat in the package. I'm talking about the meat in the grocery store that the butcher cuts. Even that meat has fillers and/or is GMO. 3) The high levels of pollution are also breaking down DNA, and not just in humans. Egg shells have become thinner and animals are sickly. Today, there isn't any water that is safe to drink anywhere on earth. What does this mean for ourselves, and the plants/animals we eat. All human fetuses are testing positive for micro plastics, and so are animals and plants. This means we are ingesting plastic every time we eat. Next time you're at the market, read the labels (natural ingredients added? Why, and what natural ingredients did they add? Cyanide is natural, but..., and they don't need to list the natural ingredients. Stop and think, how much nutrients are left in the soil, what's being dumped into the water ending up in the soil? How much micro plastic particles are in the product you're holding? What did they add to your food to make it last longer (preservatives)? How did they alter the food (GMO), and is this really that safe to eat? NO ONE eats healthy food anymore. Even farm fresh items are affected in some way. Although, straight from the farm is better than a store. You will pay for better quality, but how better is it...that's up to you to decide.
@@Ninjanimegamer oh yes absolutely this!!! I guess that is what I meant by laziness. People do not take the time to research and read labels. That’s what it boils down to. Everything you have said is completely, 100% spot on. And I agree with all of it. I think I went for the most simplistic explanation because …adhd. And. I ain’t got time for that lol. I’m surprised I read the entirety of what you said 😅😅😅 but to be honest, you completely extended what I said into everything I WANTED to say 😁😁😁 so thank you for that!!!
Gen Z and Alpha would be rendered catatonic, if the song, "Luca" had been released in the mid 90s. Gen X - we had that, Lou Reeds WIld Side-Imagine going to sleep at age 8 w that in your walkman.. They ignored us AND our retirement needs. the '401k' expiriment. I remember when I had to be w a company 5 years to be vested to take my 401 k. The rigged it from us from jump
Gen-X allergy kid here (made it through 45 years so far... screw Charlie Darwin!). I remember my mother, who worked at my school, having my allergies listed in my school file with a letter from our local doctor detailing each one of them. She gave a copy of the list to my teachers and made me carry one as well. Most of them back then weren't as serious as they are now, but having an ink allergy at school sucked. Every teacher had to test me for themselves before they'd believe it. Every stamp on the hand left me with a red and swollen hand, but they wouldn't let me wash the ink off. Goodness knows why they thought a parent (and their colleague) would lie about their kid's allergies - it's not like I was trying to get out of anything. Unfortunately, with allergies, the more you're exposed to the allergen the worse the allergy gets. I'm now anaphylactic and carry epi-pens with me for food allergies. Even the few T1 diabetics we had at school were declared by teachers as faking having diabetes because "only adults can get diabetes".
I had my 3rd grade teacher declare that there was no such thing as Sinusitis. Didn't stop my sinuses from getting infected whenever they wanted... but she was so sure.
They actually put ink on you just to be sure, knowing that your mom worked there, AND wouldn't let you wash it off?!! We did have some sadistic teachers back then. A teacher wanted to paddle me because he saw a piece of paper on the floor close to my desk. I said NO.
@@d4r4butler74 yep and even after finding out the truth for themselves, you'd never get an apology. God forbid a teacher (or any other adult) ever apologise to a kid. Mine wouldn't even apologise to my mother for the shıt they put me through - or for calling her a liar. And people wonder why many of us lost respect for teachers through our school lives.
@@lifeinpodunkville543 yep. I think teaching definitely appealed to sadists as a career path. Maybe not so much now - teachers can't get away with anything near what they used to. The worst one I had was in the final years of corporal punishment in schools here in Oz. (He was the reason older brother and I got transferred to mum's school). His name is imprinted in my core memories. He didn't cane kids if they had a sibling at the school. He canned the innocent sibling in front of the one in trouble. He thought it would make them more remorseful, better behaved. My older brother was one of THOSE kids. Always trouble, causing trouble and in trouble. I'm sure you can guess the path his life took... My kindergarten year and I got canned every day - often more than once a day. The teacher never figured out that older brother LIKED seeing me get the cane for his misdeeds. EDIT: I think Americans might know the cane as a switch? A long, thin piece of dried willow tree branch or similar. Kinda flexible. Left red welt lines across legs, butts and hands.
I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5. Nope! The kid has got to much energy that has to be channelled. Productively so they don't get into trouble. Couldn't possibly be my having an allergic reaction. Despite the Fact that I *ONLY* got hyperactive *AFTER* eating. Things like hot dogs or drinking cherry Kool Aid.
Another awesome thing about being GenX? WE didn't need to be told when something was satire or sarcastic. If our humor offended someone we simply didn't care. Grow a thicker skin! It'll come in handy the next time we play Red Rover too!!
Baby Boomer here, everybody knew to hightail me to the nurses office when I went into anaphylaxis. There I would grab my adrenaline from the fridge, fill a needle, drop trousers and give myself a subcutaneous shot. I had friends in most of the cliques. Even the athletes liked me because I took weight lifting despite not being able to breath very well.
I was just talking to my kids about this exact subject. I asked them from grade school to high school graduation how many of your classmates didn’t make it. All three looked at me like I was crazy, proved my point.
Hmmph. Born in 1970, my parents thought I had a cold for the first 3 months of my life. Went to an allergist, the list of things I was allergic to was two pages, typed, on LEGAL PAPER. I took antihistamines twice a day for the first 18 years of my life. Was allergic to some trees, plants, mold, some antibiotics, but no foods or insects, thankfully. Changed in my mid-teens, and again in my late teens (for the better, in both cases). Believe me-- Allergies were a thing.
Well the gluten thing was because our wheat was what is known now as ancient grain or spelt wheat which has less than a 10th the gluten and its why it lasted about a week and not the month or more that the GMO'd to more a scifi creature than a plant we eat now is.
Man check this out I was born in 87 I got another stupid emoji meaning I just learned about the freakin 🍇 look it up...these kids are past the stupid point of no return...I'm at a lost for words on this one for real...wow
Man, if only we had recognized Celiac disease back in the 80's, I'd have a few less autoimmune diseases. I would prefer to go back to the blissful ignorance though, when I was a Cali girl who worshipped the sun. Now I hide away in Washington (Lupus).
My mum was diagnosed with Celiac disease in the mid 80's. I don't remember her ever talking about not feeling well, just that she suddenly started eating puffed rice crackers instead of bread. The looked like round discs of polystyrene with flavour sprinkled over the top.
@@catherinekilgour2563 Undiagnosed Celiac disease can cause your body to start attacking itself... ie autoimmune diseases. I was only diagnosed about 5+ years ago when I had to get transfusions for dangerous anemia. I'm 55. Now if I get gluten contamination it affects me like food poisoning. The lesser effects can last an entire week or more.
When I was a kid I never even heard of food allergies. Every kid ate peanut butter. I didn't even know what gluten was, never heard of it. Weird. So many weak people now
Do you have any vids where you talk about what it was like living during the cold war in the 80s? i.e. movies, propaganda, nuclear fears and drills etc.
80s was AIDs...period. Yeah, other serious stuff happened but theAIDs Pandemic came and suddenly being intimate could kill you, and there was no treatment yet. AND our president wouldn't even say the word AIDs out loud until 1985. Wouldn't even acknowledge it's existence. The history books/ Government has glossed over that period in time for a reason. To remain unaccountable of what they did to America and her Citizens. They turned their backs. And boy, did people(I'm being generous describing them as 'people' ) go after LGBTQ. It was horrific.
@user-wh5ir4fo4r First, I didn't call anyone a liar. Second. Celiac disease has been known for centuries, and the cause discovered in the 1950s. The "gluten free" gimmick/trend started less than 20 years ago.
Restricting peanuts from the general population probably made it worse. The gluten thing is weird though. I know people that cannot eat bread or pasta in the US but they go to Europe and eat all they want with no issues.
Allergies in kids just weren't that prevalent back then. It wasnt that we didnt have the internet, or wide spread news so we were unaware. Childhood allergies just weren't that abundant. Statistically, there were fewer kids with allergies. The reason childhood allergies are much more common today has everything to do with society and the conditions we live in. Pollution was growing from the time we were kids, but our exposure hadnt been long term. As we aged, pollution and additives in food were brginning to take its toll on us, affecting us as we continued breathing and eating. Our bodies were adapting to changes on the molecular level. Our dna became interrupted, especially with all of the gmo (genetically modified organisms - plants/animals) we were eating. The corporations screwed with dna in our food, and it screwed with us. Our screwed up dna produced screwed up dna in our kids. Our kids were no longer able to digest certain foods, and food allergies in kids were on the rise. Over time, being exposed to high levels of pollution also caused dna to break down, and dna broke down in kids causing higher levels of asthmatic kids; especially in cities. Those kids had kids, and so dna continues to break down. Dna is so damaged we are seeing higher levels of cognitive disorders, more cases of autism, and other breakdowns in brain functions. The hormones they've been adding; especially to dairy and red meat, have caused higher estrogen levels in men, which have its own set of problems, like weak men and infertility. This planet is overpopulated, food sources are low, chemically produced food is on the rise, and so is pollution. DNA continues to break down, and with each passing generations childhood allergies, cognitive disabilities, the lack of executive functions are on the rise. What will our future look like throufh smog and haze? How will our great grands get along? Maybe, that is why A.I. is on the rise. They know people will no longer be functioning.
When I was a kid, the only thing I knew about allergies was that people got hayfever every spring. That was it.
I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy.
allergic to bees was a thing too.
I never remember anyone talking about peanut allergies. But apparently it’s a much more common thing now.
So true, no need to share life stories with the universe
Our motto growing up was Dimetapp or Benadryl or just suffer in silence. What doesn’t Kill you , makes you stronger and builds character.
I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy.
Still mine! Also was allergic to bees too! 🤣
@@DarinM1967 when I finally went to see the doctor after I turned 40 , I had to get a skin allergy test. Turns out I AM allergic to grass, goldenrod, and ragweed. Go figure?
That was your, "motto"? You're so full of it. Gimme a break. 😂😂
Amateur. Then again, I'm biased-- benadryl is totally useless for me. I was on prescription allergy meds.
I’m a Gen Joneser, and when I was 14 (in 1973) I started to get the “creeping crud” rash on my fingers, then the tops of my toes, that my mother got sometimes. Horribly itchy little fluid-filled blisters, that would bleed if I scratched too much, and would take 3 weeks to heal. Fast forward to 2002, when I tried the Atkins diet to lose weight, and quit eating wheat or other grains. Surprise! No more creeping crud! It took me years after that to find out it was non-Celiac gluten intolerance. Yeah, it was the new millennium when I found out what it was.
I never heard of a peanut allergy before I was grown
That's true, isn't it? There were two kids in my class with some wild allergies. I found this out, like, 35 years later in a Facebook conversation. We really did not talk about things like that. We kept our issues close to the chest, not because they were a sign of weakness or anything, but... thinking back on it now, it just wasn't cool to show everyone all your stuff.
I hear you I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5.
yup! I remember. You couldn't even let kids know you hated whatever you mom packed in your lunchbox that day. I had to pretend to like it until I could secretly toss it away and the lunch lady ALWAYS rated me out to my big sister who would rat me out to my mom. Gah!!!! And she would still pack the same sandwich the next day knowing full well I was not going to eat it then either. I have no idea why.
You definitely didn’t spill out your feelings or what was going wrong with you. That’s a modern phenomenon.
There was a boy in 3rd grade that we called "Fart Blossom" 😂
He would fart into the orange cone holes at PE 😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I lived on Actifed as s kid. I was allergic to grass. GRASS! It ducked.
Bubble Boy, is that you? Jokes aside, my sympathies! Grass allergy is so wtf
Makes my allergy sound almost enjoyable. I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5.
Back then your kid was your problem/responsibility… not everyone else’s.
That's actually REALLY inaccurate. Families and neighbors were involved in our upbringings. People cared about each other but you MAGA are so self involved, entitled and bitter.
$100 says you're anti-reproductive freedom for women AND for cuts in social services to needy kids and their Mother's once the kid is born.
You people LOVE a fetus, just not kids.
We had three kids "move"... when I was in elementary school.
Only knew the one... but their parents kept showing up at church and the grocerys. Never did see "billy" again
There was one kid who died in elementary school. There were a couple of kids who moved. I assume they actually moved.
What do you think happened to him?
I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5.
All I know is I remember if my Mom punished me by not sending me to school with a lunch in the 70’s, the Cafeteria ladies didn’t let me go hungry. They whipped up a couple of of the industrial grade peanut butter sandwiches. Nobody cared about peanut allergies back then!
Hell yeah, triple decker pnut butter n grape jelly. But, y'know, making a kid go hungry is just wrong.
@@misscyanic2484 Yep. Part of many issues she had. We finally have worked it all out all these years later.
I was so allergic to milk that I couldn't eat any bread except sourdough. Also, my mom had to make me sorbet before that was even a thing. My allergies were so bad that the allergist told my parents that moving somewhere else wouldn't work because I would just develop new ones. And to prove how GenX I was, I was giving myself allergy shots at 6 years old!
A few of my Gen X peers had milk allergies in their youth, but it's the kind that they just got juice instead. We didn't ban the entire class from having PB&J.
Yes there were some in our day, but it is exponentially higher now
Yeah, because it actually gets diagnosed and people talk about it, same holds for adhd and autism.
@@fett713akamandodragon5 from 1992 to 2012 hospital admissions for food allergy anaphylaxis increased 615%. They fully tracked food allergy issues starting in 1990.
@@fett713akamandodragon5
Not only. Allergies actually are more common, and more serious. It's just a result of genetics andcadvances in medical science. People with recessive genes for dangerous allergies like that were simply filtered out of the gene pool 50 years ago. Now they live, breed with people with the same recessive gene and bang.
My cousins was allergic to grass, weeds and trees. And he was a pretty good football player until his knee went out in college. The point being, he wasn't an indoor kid as that wasn't allowed back then.
They didn’t make every other kid responsible for the allergic kid’s condition. And allergies like deathly allergy to peanuts wasn’t *as common* to our knowledge. PB&J remained a staple of many of our childhoods. But yeah, they DID exist, for sure.
I remember a girl in my scout troop who had a wheat allergy. She never talked about, except the time we made a stop at McDonald's and she ordered her burger with no bun. She said the doctors said she might outgrow it. But now that I know about celiac disease... it seems unlikely.
My hayfever was so bad, I had to get shots every week to build up a resistance. Of course, that didn't stop my father making me pull ragweek out of the back yard.
Bro, I would pay $60 a kilo to get that brick of government cheese again..
And that huge can of pork.
Growing Up as an Italian Kind with a Single Pure Italian Mother? I Ate whatever the hell she made! hahaa ! gubment cheese was a staple in the 70's for us growing up poor! And man that WAS Kryptonite!
I always had a little cough after PB&J. Mom would say that’s what I get for eating so fast! By age 30 my tongue swelled and throat was scratchy after having a PB shake. Told my doctor. He told me to stop eating peanuts before I kill myself and said it’s a miracle I survived that long! 15 yrs later if I’m in the same room with peanut powder my throat closes! Thanks again Mom!
Had some shellfish allergies that developed when I got to be an adult. It always caused numbness and tingling to my lips, but never bothered the back of my throat luckily. Also upsets my stomach. That being said, I always worry that it could get much worse. So I always avoid those foods.
oh, and it turns out my son is allergic to bananas. It took us 4 months to work it out since we just thought we were feeding him too fast.
Knowing there was a food that made us fart wasn't a blemish in the 80's. That was a gift!!
Duck eggs. We had 5 Ducks and they laid eggs. If I ate Duck Eggs the night before, being on the school bus I went to school on? You did NOT want to be on that bus.
My best friend in third grade, Faith had asthma. She left her inhaler with the nurse, because it was a school rule. We went to lunch, and after lunch we had recess.
We were outside for about ten minutes, and she started having an asthma attack. She told me to get the nurse. I ran for the door, but the teachers were standing around talking, and telling me I couldn't go in and to wait a minute. The aids told me no one was allowed back inside. I screamed out Faith can't breathe.
That got the teachers running.
A teacher ran for Faith, and another for the nurse. I wanted to help, but they told me to go to class, because by then recess was over. Yes, it took that long to get to get their attention.
By the time they got to Faith, she was passed out.
That was the last day I saw Faith.
I heard she ended up in the hospital in a coma. When she came out of the coma, she was like an infant. Then, she passed away.
I gave up on life after that. This was the straw that broke me.
My mom, had the opportunity to take me to see Faith, but she always refused to drive me anywhere, why should this be any different?.
School policies changed because of her. They now allow kids to hold onto their own inhalers at lunch and recess. The policy is named after her last name. They named this policy in memory of Faith.
I still cry a little thinking of her. She was the nicest girl, quiet and smart. She was not a popular kid, many didn't even know who she was, but that didn't matter to me. She was my best friend and only friend, and I was hers. RIP Faith♥️
That really sucks! Sorry for you and Faith and her family. Terrible!
I’m so sorry for your loss, and that whole situation! 🙏 What a tragedy!
Omg. How horrible.
Harsh but true! I only knew one kid who had asthma. He was seriously into board games and later D & D.
Freddy was always the little redhead kid with freckles.
Pigpen was always my favorite 😂
I didn’t have allergies growing up, but sadly I do now. They were apparently the reason for my health issues. That said. I don’t push my allergies on anyone & I despise people who claim to have allergies & don’t
Only thing I was allergic to back then was whatever they put in Hubba Bubba bubblegum that kept it from sticking to your lips.
Made my lips swell up more than a Beverly Hills housewife.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sorry I don't mean to laugh but that image I just can't help it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 LOL, I had my mother laughing hysterically as I was doing my best impression of Mushmouth from Fat Albert at full swell.
I don't even think they took me to the doctor.
I remember those giant bricks. Had at least one in the freezer throughout my entire childhood.
So much truth in that!
Government Cheese was my favorite thing. I used to make Government peanut butter and govt. Cheese sandwiches for after school, before football snacks. I'd run the entire 1.5 miles to & from home for a couple of those sandwiches and a half gallon of milk. So I could get back in time for football practice & weightlifting team practice immediately following.
When I was young my mother took me to an Allergy Doctor. Had to repeat the testing several times due to how many allergies I had. For several years I had to get two shots every week then it finally dropped down to one every week. Like someone posted already "If it don't kill you it will make you stronger", well I guess that is true bc I'm still here after 56 years.
Dont forget those one or two kids who got to go home for lunch when i was in elementary school.
I have a bee allergy. When i was stung on the arm in PE, they just sent me to the school nurse who gave a frozen cup of ice (in one of those tiny Snoopy paper cups) to put on the swelling. Then sent me back to class.
I remember as a grade school girl being really jealous of my friend who had allergies and asthma. Absolutely asinine in retrospect, I certainly wasnt thinking about kids "moving" from it, but she got to miss school, which sounded ideal to my undiagnosed ADHD brain. Of course when I developed horrible allergies and mild asthma myself as a 14 year old, requiring 2 shots a week, the novelty wore off quickly. I would be fine if I was allergic to some easily avoidable substance. I was lucky none of my many allergies were the kind to put me into anaphylaxis. I will say getting all those Scratch tests, and weekly shots totally cured my fear of needle pain. When I developed diabetes in my 30s, my only needle fear was giving myself an embolism from an air bubble, (which apparently is only slightly more likely than quicksand. )
Preach!
I was "radically main streamed " back in the day . what John said :>
Now that I think about it ....🤔
We just didn't know. When Tuna Twist (a product of seasonings and soy protein, to extend a can of tuna into 6 sandwiches), came out, it didn't last long on the market, because it made people with soy allergies (many of whom didn't know they were allergic, because soy products were fairly rare in North America) extremely sick.
Although we grew up eating an abundance of sugary cereals, we also ate more real meat and real butter used as a cooking oil.
Today, many people are experiencing health problems from changes in hormone levels due to overconsumption of stuff like GMO soybeans, rapeseed and artificial 'fillers' in processed and fast food.
I developed a latex allergy when i was 8. I went in for shots, left with a bandaid that had latex in it. 4 days later, i woke up in the hospital. Back then, it seemed like latex was in everything.
All I know is...Now that I'm a Gen.X. O.G..."Hindsight is 2020", I would've asked my Mom to tell the Elementary School that I was allergic to peanuts. That free lunch I had to consume... (Those peanut butter sandwiches and that bread...) My Parents played the system...I F*cking Love my 'Boomer" Parents!
This is how I treat/manage my millennial teammates, and they all don't get it or hate it.
Look. There are so many issues that exist today because they never used to process foods as horribly as they do now. Americans have just gotten lazy and want to find the quick food options because of their “busy schedules”. My grandmother had 6 kids. 2 of them were twins. She was up before dawn, worked in the home all day, took care of the kids by herself while my grandfather was working, and still had time to make 3 well rounded meals for the entire family and still found time for knitting and sewing. She handmade their clothes when they were babies as well as blankets and such. She was a rock star.
Your grandma was awesome. I'm sorry for your loss.
However, it's not just the prepared foods that are processed, and it's not out of laziness people don't eat better.
We ALL don't eat well, and it's not by choice. There are three issues to our food problems.
1) world wide overpopulation. In 1970, there were just over 3 billion people in the world. Every country had its own food source, and first world countries were prosperous. Today, we have 8 billion people in the world. Land is being used for manufacturing, and farms are disappearing, but we have more mouths to feed. There's not enough food to go around.
2) Greedy corporations found by adding fillers, and modifying DNA, (gmo- genetically modified food), they could stretch and alter our food. This way they can cut down on the amount of meat in the package. I'm talking about the meat in the grocery store that the butcher cuts. Even that meat has fillers and/or is GMO.
3) The high levels of pollution are also breaking down DNA, and not just in humans. Egg shells have become thinner and animals are sickly. Today, there isn't any water that is safe to drink anywhere on earth. What does this mean for ourselves, and the plants/animals we eat. All human fetuses are testing positive for micro plastics, and so are animals and plants. This means we are ingesting plastic every time we eat.
Next time you're at the market, read the labels (natural ingredients added? Why, and what natural ingredients did they add? Cyanide is natural, but..., and they don't need to list the natural ingredients. Stop and think, how much nutrients are left in the soil, what's being dumped into the water ending up in the soil? How much micro plastic particles are in the product you're holding? What did they add to your food to make it last longer (preservatives)? How did they alter the food (GMO), and is this really that safe to eat?
NO ONE eats healthy food anymore. Even farm fresh items are affected in some way. Although, straight from the farm is better than a store. You will pay for better quality, but how better is it...that's up to you to decide.
@@Ninjanimegamer oh yes absolutely this!!! I guess that is what I meant by laziness. People do not take the time to research and read labels. That’s what it boils down to. Everything you have said is completely, 100% spot on. And I agree with all of it. I think I went for the most simplistic explanation because …adhd. And. I ain’t got time for that lol. I’m surprised I read the entirety of what you said 😅😅😅 but to be honest, you completely extended what I said into everything I WANTED to say 😁😁😁 so thank you for that!!!
@@Ninjanimegamer and forever chemicals too.
Gen Z and Alpha would be rendered catatonic, if the song, "Luca" had been released in the mid 90s. Gen X - we had that, Lou Reeds WIld Side-Imagine going to sleep at age 8 w that in your walkman.. They ignored us AND our retirement needs. the '401k' expiriment. I remember when I had to be w a company 5 years to be vested to take my 401 k. The rigged it from us from jump
Gen-X allergy kid here (made it through 45 years so far... screw Charlie Darwin!).
I remember my mother, who worked at my school, having my allergies listed in my school file with a letter from our local doctor detailing each one of them.
She gave a copy of the list to my teachers and made me carry one as well. Most of them back then weren't as serious as they are now, but having an ink allergy at school sucked. Every teacher had to test me for themselves before they'd believe it.
Every stamp on the hand left me with a red and swollen hand, but they wouldn't let me wash the ink off.
Goodness knows why they thought a parent (and their colleague) would lie about their kid's allergies - it's not like I was trying to get out of anything.
Unfortunately, with allergies, the more you're exposed to the allergen the worse the allergy gets. I'm now anaphylactic and carry epi-pens with me for food allergies.
Even the few T1 diabetics we had at school were declared by teachers as faking having diabetes because "only adults can get diabetes".
I had my 3rd grade teacher declare that there was no such thing as Sinusitis. Didn't stop my sinuses from getting infected whenever they wanted... but she was so sure.
They actually put ink on you just to be sure, knowing that your mom worked there, AND wouldn't let you wash it off?!!
We did have some sadistic teachers back then. A teacher wanted to paddle me because he saw a piece of paper on the floor close to my desk. I said NO.
@@d4r4butler74 yep and even after finding out the truth for themselves, you'd never get an apology. God forbid a teacher (or any other adult) ever apologise to a kid.
Mine wouldn't even apologise to my mother for the shıt they put me through - or for calling her a liar. And people wonder why many of us lost respect for teachers through our school lives.
@@lifeinpodunkville543 yep. I think teaching definitely appealed to sadists as a career path. Maybe not so much now - teachers can't get away with anything near what they used to.
The worst one I had was in the final years of corporal punishment in schools here in Oz. (He was the reason older brother and I got transferred to mum's school). His name is imprinted in my core memories. He didn't cane kids if they had a sibling at the school. He canned the innocent sibling in front of the one in trouble. He thought it would make them more remorseful, better behaved. My older brother was one of THOSE kids. Always trouble, causing trouble and in trouble. I'm sure you can guess the path his life took...
My kindergarten year and I got canned every day - often more than once a day. The teacher never figured out that older brother LIKED seeing me get the cane for his misdeeds.
EDIT: I think Americans might know the cane as a switch? A long, thin piece of dried willow tree branch or similar. Kinda flexible. Left red welt lines across legs, butts and hands.
I have a red food dye allergy that wasn’t diagnosed till I was 25. As a kid in the 80's my parents just thought I was just hyperactive. So they gave me more chores to burn off that extra energy. No one, not even our family Dr ever imagined for a second. That I could have an allergy to red food dye # 5.
Nope! The kid has got to much energy that has to be channelled. Productively so they don't get into trouble. Couldn't possibly be my having an allergic reaction. Despite the Fact that I *ONLY* got hyperactive *AFTER* eating. Things like hot dogs or drinking cherry Kool Aid.
They may not have known about gluten, but it was definitely a thing
Another awesome thing about being GenX? WE didn't need to be told when something was satire or sarcastic. If our humor offended someone we simply didn't care. Grow a thicker skin! It'll come in handy the next time we play Red Rover too!!
Baby Boomer here, everybody knew to hightail me to the nurses office when I went into anaphylaxis. There I would grab my adrenaline from the fridge, fill a needle, drop trousers and give myself a subcutaneous shot. I had friends in most of the cliques. Even the athletes liked me because I took weight lifting despite not being able to breath very well.
I was just talking to my kids about this exact subject. I asked them from grade school to high school graduation how many of your classmates didn’t make it. All three looked at me like I was crazy, proved my point.
Read other comments. Some kids didn’t make it. Just because that was your experience doesn’t make it every one’s experience.
Hmmph. Born in 1970, my parents thought I had a cold for the first 3 months of my life. Went to an allergist, the list of things I was allergic to was two pages, typed, on LEGAL PAPER. I took antihistamines twice a day for the first 18 years of my life. Was allergic to some trees, plants, mold, some antibiotics, but no foods or insects, thankfully. Changed in my mid-teens, and again in my late teens (for the better, in both cases).
Believe me-- Allergies were a thing.
Well the gluten thing was because our wheat was what is known now as ancient grain or spelt wheat which has less than a 10th the gluten and its why it lasted about a week and not the month or more that the GMO'd to more a scifi creature than a plant we eat now is.
When I was a kid allergies were something other kids had but not me. Sucked to be them.
Man check this out I was born in 87 I got another stupid emoji meaning I just learned about the freakin 🍇 look it up...these kids are past the stupid point of no return...I'm at a lost for words on this one for real...wow
Man, if only we had recognized Celiac disease back in the 80's, I'd have a few less autoimmune diseases. I would prefer to go back to the blissful ignorance though, when I was a Cali girl who worshipped the sun. Now I hide away in Washington (Lupus).
My mum was diagnosed with Celiac disease in the mid 80's. I don't remember her ever talking about not feeling well, just that she suddenly started eating puffed rice crackers instead of bread. The looked like round discs of polystyrene with flavour sprinkled over the top.
@@catherinekilgour2563 Undiagnosed Celiac disease can cause your body to start attacking itself... ie autoimmune diseases. I was only diagnosed about 5+ years ago when I had to get transfusions for dangerous anemia. I'm 55. Now if I get gluten contamination it affects me like food poisoning. The lesser effects can last an entire week or more.
When I was a kid I never even heard of food allergies. Every kid ate peanut butter. I didn't even know what gluten was, never heard of it. Weird. So many weak people now
It’s not weak people. It’s gmo food. Sorry, but fish dna doesn’t belong in strawberries or tomatoes.
Title of this video is funny because I have a cousin Jeffery who is deathly allergic to wheat gluten.
Do you have any vids where you talk about what it was like living during the cold war in the 80s? i.e. movies, propaganda, nuclear fears and drills etc.
80s was AIDs...period. Yeah, other serious stuff happened but theAIDs Pandemic came and suddenly being intimate could kill you, and there was no treatment yet. AND our president wouldn't even say the word AIDs out loud until 1985. Wouldn't even acknowledge it's existence. The history books/ Government has glossed over that period in time for a reason. To remain unaccountable of what they did to America and her Citizens. They turned their backs. And boy, did people(I'm being generous describing them as 'people' ) go after LGBTQ. It was horrific.
Facts lol
That whole gluten thing. 😳 Just another gimmick to make money.
No. Look up celiacs disease for one.
@@traildriving Which less than 1% of Americans have and which the vast majority of those on the gluten free bandwagon don't.
@user-wh5ir4fo4r First, I didn't call anyone a liar.
Second. Celiac disease has been known for centuries, and the cause discovered in the 1950s. The "gluten free" gimmick/trend started less than 20 years ago.
Restricting peanuts from the general population probably made it worse. The gluten thing is weird though. I know people that cannot eat bread or pasta in the US but they go to Europe and eat all they want with no issues.
Some of it is the way it is processed, plus there are a lot of chemicals allowed in US food that is illegal in Europe because they are known poisons.
When I was a kid, allergies were very rare, VERY rare. Yes they existed but now it seems like most of the population has allergies.
Allergies in kids just weren't that prevalent back then. It wasnt that we didnt have the internet, or wide spread news so we were unaware. Childhood allergies just weren't that abundant. Statistically, there were fewer kids with allergies.
The reason childhood allergies are much more common today has everything to do with society and the conditions we live in.
Pollution was growing from the time we were kids, but our exposure hadnt been long term. As we aged, pollution and additives in food were brginning to take its toll on us, affecting us as we continued breathing and eating. Our bodies were adapting to changes on the molecular level. Our dna became interrupted, especially with all of the gmo (genetically modified organisms - plants/animals) we were eating.
The corporations screwed with dna in our food, and it screwed with us. Our screwed up dna produced screwed up dna in our kids. Our kids were no longer able to digest certain foods, and food allergies in kids were on the rise.
Over time, being exposed to high levels of pollution also caused dna to break down, and dna broke down in kids causing higher levels of asthmatic kids; especially in cities.
Those kids had kids, and so dna continues to break down. Dna is so damaged we are seeing higher levels of cognitive disorders, more cases of autism, and other breakdowns in brain functions.
The hormones they've been adding; especially to dairy and red meat, have caused higher estrogen levels in men, which have its own set of problems, like weak men and infertility.
This planet is overpopulated, food sources are low, chemically produced food is on the rise, and so is pollution. DNA continues to break down, and with each passing generations childhood allergies, cognitive disabilities, the lack of executive functions are on the rise.
What will our future look like throufh smog and haze? How will our great grands get along? Maybe, that is why A.I. is on the rise. They know people will no longer be functioning.