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Re: Benadryl Allergy?
From: Alexis (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Dec 28 15:04:39 2005
I think I am allergic to benadryl and the reason being it contains FD&C
Red No. 3. This red has been linked to allergic reactions and cancer
in mice... Scary sh!te. Ciao for now!
Lexi.
At Mon, 19 May 2003, gina wrote:
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>I see that this question was posted ages ago, but thought I'd throw a
>reply on here anyway. I've never been professionally diagnosed as
>allergic to benadryl, but I've found that everytime I take it, I end up
>with hives. When I started getting them, they'd be more pronounced
>welts, but now it's more like a general miserable itchy rash on all soft
>parts of body, under arms, around waist, etc. It takes about 3 days for
>them to go away. Since noone can understand that I'd be allergic to
>Benadryl, I've tried it again recently to have the same reaction. I'm
>hoping maybe I can find that I'm not so unusual, that there are others
>with same reaction?
>
>At Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Amy wrote:
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>>For those of you who are allergic to benadryl, would you please describe
>>to me your allergic reaction? I'm just curious as to what the symptoms
>>are of such an allergy. I also have loads of allergies but I don't
>>think I'm allergic to benadryl -- I thought benadryl was supposed be
>>helpful for allergies?
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