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Some people have alcohol allergies, wheat allergies, some people don't enjoy the taste and some don't drink for health reasons.

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Quick take

(informal, figuratively) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of allergies gathered in one view.

noun

(informal, figuratively) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

noun

(medicine, immunology, loosely) A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.

noun

(medicine, immunology, strictly) Specifically, hypersensitivity of class I in the modern classification thereof: the immunoglobulin E–mediated type.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for allergies.

noun

(informal, figuratively) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

noun

(medicine, immunology, strictly) Specifically, hypersensitivity of class I in the modern classification thereof: the immunoglobulin E–mediated type.

Example sentences

Some people have alcohol allergies, wheat allergies, some people don't enjoy the taste and some don't drink for health reasons.

Another might have allergies, or has friends who have allergies.

Employees with allergies, employees who use heavy scents (especially in combination with employees with allergies) and various food smells can all be problems even in cubicles.

You'd need to ensure whatever the gel is treated with couldn't cause allergic reactions; allergies to amoxicillin and sulfa family antibiotics are not insignificant in the human population.

Even organisms like dwarf tapeworms can help people by reducing allergies so surely religion has done some good.

The only child in my family that was breast fed did not end up with terrible allergies.

My wife has fish and shellfish allergies, but a surprising number of places were OK with that.

The gun control issues really shouldn't revolve around mass shootings any more than the issue around national nutrition should revolve around nut allergies.

Paleo works well for people who have low grade gluten/casein allergies.

> The only child in my family that was breast fed did not end up with terrible allergies.

Have a standard form that list anything important: allergies, blood-type.

I largely exited the standard food supply about two years ago after my partner developed a number of food allergies including Celiac.

Quote examples

From homeopathic "medicine" that's nothing but water to chiropractors claiming that they can treat allergies, there's a ton of alternative medicine that's just completely baseless.

It's difficult, after centuries of declaring people "mad," to think that one can be mentally ill as one is ordinarily ill - with the mental equivalent of a cold or flu or allergies.

Critically, given what could otherwise be life threatening insomnia etc., a low dose of an "atypical" antipsychotic that has a useful sedating side effect (an antihistamine, so also good for your allergies:-), trade name Seroquel, generic quetiapine fumarate.

In the case of deodorant, the question one really wants to ask is either "Will this fragrance upset my coworkers with allergies," or "What fragrance will most impress the guy/girl I want to impress?" Objective, empirical data from the nearest demographic comes the closest to answering that question.