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Steroids and Immune System Response

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9 years 3 weeks ago #55686 by Hal9000
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So confusing.
Do steroids (pred and dex) turn on/increase or turn off/decrease your immune system ?

I thought that it reduced one's immune system. Yet when I took Dex I suddenly seemed to be allergic to many/all foods.
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9 years 3 weeks ago #55701 by Sandi
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Steroids do suppress the immune system and usually help allergic reactions.

What sort of food reactions did you have?
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9 years 3 weeks ago #55706 by Hal9000
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Thanks for the confirmation.

Note, previous to the Dex pulse only dust would make me sneeze. And that is it. Now that Dex has worn off, it's back to normal - just dust again.

Reactions? When I drank cows milk as soon as I set the glass down on the first sip, I sneezed. After that happened twice in a row I stopped drinking milk.
Later I noticed my eyes would water or my nose would run when I ate almonds or cashews. Then I noticed my eyes would water or nose would run as soon as I started a meal- didn't seem to make any difference what I was eating. Chicken, ham, vegetables, eggs, didn't matter.

It's like anything that stimulated my stomach created an allergic reaction. Crazy...
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9 years 3 weeks ago #55707 by
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Allergic reaction or an intolerance?
Whatever it was it didn't sound like fun.
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9 years 3 weeks ago #55724 by Hal9000
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Food intolerance? Not familiar with that, had to look it up. As I understand those reactions occur after eating.

There must be another, different allergic pathway from the stomach that isn't affected by cortisol / corticosteroids.
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9 years 3 weeks ago #55725 by Sandi
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I have had a similar problem for years. No matter what I eat, I get stuffy immediately. I'm so used to it that I don't even think about it any more. I told a doctor once and he looked at me like I was crazy. Never brought that up again.
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9 years 2 weeks ago #55730 by Hal9000
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Now that you mention it, I just remembered. My mother has always complained about having a runny nose whenever she eats too.
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9 years 2 weeks ago #55731 by
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An intolerance can show up in different ways in different people. An intolerance to citrus was determined in someone I know when citrus was taken from diet - if cooked it isn't a bother. Another intolerance to vanilla was determined when anything with vanilla was removed from the person's diet. I was told by my allergist it is rare to have an allergy to more than 1 food.
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9 years 2 weeks ago #55733 by Sandi
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I was tested years ago and was allergic to quite a few foods. That was in my teens. It seems to be a lot worse now.
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9 years 2 weeks ago #55735 by Hal9000
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Sandi, would you say that steroids minimize your allergic reactions, or ?
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