"What surprised me is we are still seeing so many visits to emergency departments associated with very common household cleaning products," Lara McKenzie, Ph.D., stated, emphasizing the ongoing issue despite safety advancements.
Individuals allergic to bee stings can safely consume honey because the venom produced by bees is not related to honey. The venom is injected through the stinger, while honey is produced from nectar.
The study shows "how a feeling, such as psychological stress, can translate into a biological event, namely inflamed skin", says co-author Shenbin Liu, a neurobiologist at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
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Dining out at new restaurants can be a fun way to try different cuisines and get together with friends. For people with allergies, though, eating food they haven't prepared themselves in a new place can pose a serious threat. Cross-contamination can happen anywhere, and food-related anaphylaxis sends patients to the emergency room every six minutes, according to the Journal for Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Alongside the obvious nasal hairs that a few people choose to trim, all of us have cilia, or microscopic hairs in our noses that can move and sense things of their own accord. And so if anything gets trapped by the cilia, that triggers a reaction to your nerve endings that says: Right, let's get rid of this.' And that triggers a sneeze.
