"I'm just hoping that the diagnosis is correct or the diagnosee is not going to avoid the real problem allergens, only the PC one, with less than optimal results."
Gosh, so you all are diagnosing long distance and without even seeing the patient? What highly talented folks.
I'm sorry you all suffer allergies or reactions to solvents or whatever (cigarettes??), but that does give you a taste of what it's like for people who can't tolerate cigarette smoke (I'm not one but my wife is).
No, I am not diagnosing anyone.
It just flat out amazes me, as a scientist, that with the tremendous number of potential allergens that massive numbers of people come into contact with on a day-to-day basis, only one is acknowledged by the medical community on a widespread basis as the cause of everyone's ills.
I am not saying that in some cases the diagnosis is not correct. But in all?
Did you get new carpet? A new car? Paint recently? Have the house fumigated? Is there mold present? Use a Dry Cleaning service? Do recent landscaping? Have new shrubs planted? New furniture? Old furniture? Have a wood shop?--(some wood dusts are real nasty). Refinish hardwood floors? Install a laminate? Get a new house? Do you have one of those air freshener doohickeys plugged in somewhere? etc., etc., etc.
If whoever made the diagnosis did not ask these questions and more, they were not very thorough.
It has been my experience that cigarette smoke is assumed to be the whole problem.
Break down ass/u/me and you see where those assumptions generally lead.
Your mileage may vary.
What? What are you talking about!
I didn't diagnose anyone! I was just saying how the pollen and the dust flying from the tractors this spring has been bugging me.
I sure wish some of you people would read better and understand what you DID read! Geeze!